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What is serverless computing? Driving efficiency without sacrificing observability

Dynatrace

The phrase “serverless computing” appears contradictory at first, but for years now, successful companies have understood the benefit of using serverless technologies to streamline operations and reduce costs. So what exactly does “serverless” mean, and how can your organization benefit from it?

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Vulnerability assessment: key to protecting applications and infrastructure

Dynatrace

The goal of an assessment is to locate weaknesses that can be exploited to compromise systems. Examples of such weaknesses are errors in application code, misconfigured network devices, and overly permissive access controls in a database. That said, vulnerability databases such as CVE , help identify known vulnerabilities.

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What is infrastructure monitoring and why is it mission-critical in the new normal?

Dynatrace

IT infrastructure is the heart of your digital business and connects every area – physical and virtual servers, storage, databases, networks, cloud services. If you don’t have insight into the software and services that operate your business, you can’t efficiently run your business. Dynatrace news.

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Weighing a microservices approach means covering all architecture bases

Dynatrace

Smaller teams can launch services much faster using flexible containerized environments, such as Kubernetes, or serverless functions, such as AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, and Azure Functions. Additionally, typical SOA models use larger relational databases. VMs require their own operating system and take up additional resources.

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Platform Engineering Teams Done Right…

Adrian Cockcroft

The next layer is operating system platforms, what flavor of Linux, what version of Windows etc. The virtualization and networking platform could be datacenter based, with something like VMware, or cloud based using one of the cloud providers such as AWS EC2.

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Trends and Topics for 2022

Adrian Cockcroft

There were five trends and topics for 2021, Serverless First, Chaos Engineering, Wardley Mapping, Huge Hardware, Sustainability. I did a few talks on this subject early in the year, and linked this to the sustainability advantages of serverless architectures. primarily virtual?—?and and develop the ideas in this deck further.

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What is a message queue? How an observability platform eases message queue monitoring

Dynatrace

A message queue is a form of middleware used in software development to enable communications between services, programs, and dissimilar components, such as operating systems and communication protocols. A message queue enables the smooth flow of information to make complex systems work. What is a message queue?