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5 powerful use cases beyond debugging for Dynatrace Live Debugger

Dynatrace

Performance benchmarking Performance benchmarking is one of the unresolved mysteries of software engineering. Load generators simulate traffic. Live snapshot includes variables, process, stack trace, and tracing information. In many ways, it’s more of an art than a science. Sometimes, you need heavyweight tools.

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Title Launch Observability at Netflix Scale

The Netflix TechBlog

Accurately Reflecting Production Behavior A key part of our solution is insights into production behavior, which necessitates our requests to the endpoint result in traffic to the real service functions that mimics the same pathways the traffic would take if it came from the usualcallers. We call this capability TimeTravel.

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Architecture Patterns: The Circuit-Breaker

DZone

Much like how an electrical circuit breaker prevents an overload by stopping the flow of electricity when excessive current is detected, the Circuit Breaker pattern in software engineering stops the flow of requests to a service when the number of failures exceeds a predefined threshold.

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Architected for resiliency: How Dynatrace withstands data center outages

Dynatrace

And the last sentence of the email was what made me want to share this story publicly, as it’s a testimonial to how modern software engineering and operations should make you feel. This number was so low because the automatic traffic redirect was so fast it kept the impact so low. Availability Zone) outages.

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All of Netflix’s HDR video streaming is now dynamically optimized

The Netflix TechBlog

1) depicts the migration of traffic from fixed bitrates to DO encodes. 1: Migration of traffic from fixed-ladder encodes to DO encodes. Join us and be a part of the amazing team that brought you this tech-blog; open positions: Software Engineer, Cloud Gaming Software Engineer, Live Streaming References [1] L.

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Protect your organization against zero-day vulnerabilities

Dynatrace

Typically, organizations might experience abnormal scanning activity or an unexpected traffic influx that is coming from one specific client. One way to detect zero-day attacks is by observing software behavior and identifying whether any actions are malicious.

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Site reliability done right: 5 SRE best practices that deliver on business objectives

Dynatrace

This shift is leading more organizations to hire site reliability engineers to guarantee the reliability and resiliency of their services. How site reliability engineering affects organizations’ bottom line SRE applies the disciplines of software engineering to infrastructure management, both on-premises and in the cloud.