DZone

AUGUST 28, 2023

Shift-left is an approach to software development and operations that emphasizes testing, monitoring, and automation earlier in the software development lifecycle. The goal of the shift-left approach is to prevent problems before they arise by catching them early and addressing them quickly. When you identify a scalability issue or a bug early, it is quicker and more cost-effective to resolve it.

Cloud 278

Cloud Monitoring Scalability Software 278

Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2023

Digital experience is often considered the most important customer-facing aspect of digital commerce. This is typically the first thing that comes to mind for IT professionals working in the retail industry when evaluating holiday readiness. While digital experience has many facets, transaction speed usually ranks among the most important. Almost two decades ago, a Google experiment showed that fast-loading transactions are more important to customers than content quality—even small increases in

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Retail Logistics Innovation Analytics 205

DZone

AUGUST 28, 2023

It's a story as old as ( UNIX ) time — in scene one, we meet an international online retailer whose software infrastructure is based on a sprawling monolithic application. As their story unfolds, and with the relentless additions of new features and modifications to existing ones, this once sleek application has grown into a complex, intertwined system.

Architecture 246

Architecture Retail Software Architecture Infrastructure 246

Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2023

The global supply chain took a major hit during the COVID-19 pandemic. While it has since returned to a relatively normal state, the need for supply chain modernization has emerged. Dr. Aaron Drew , the Technical Director for the Supply Chain Management Product Line at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Information and Technology, is actively advancing supply chain modernization efforts within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

Healthcare 191

Healthcare Government Analytics Google 191

DZone

AUGUST 28, 2023

If you are running a distributed system where each request talks to more than a couple of services, databases, and a queuing system, pinpointing the cause of an issue is not a trivial affair. The complexity increases as the number of services increases, as east-west traffic goes up, as teams get split up, and as data tends to eventual consistency. There are a plethora of tools aiming to solve this problem to various degrees.

Strategy 100

Strategy Traffic Database Systems 100