Dynatrace

MARCH 5, 2025

Fast and efficient log analysis is critical in todays data-driven IT environments. For enterprises managing complex systems and vast datasets using traditional log management tools, finding specific log entries quickly and efficiently can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack. Dynatrace segments simplify and streamline data organization in large and complex IT environments, providing pre-scoped data without compromising performance.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

Part 3: System Strategies and Architecture By: VarunKhaitan With special thanks to my stunning colleagues: Mallika Rao , Esmir Mesic , HugoMarques This blog post is a continuation of Part 2 , where we cleared the ambiguity around title launch observability at Netflix. In this installment, we will explore the strategies, tools, and methodologies that were employed to achieve comprehensive title observability atscale.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

To understand whats happening in todays complex software ecosystems, you need comprehensive telemetry data to make it all observable. In fact, observability is essential for shaping how we design smarter, more resilient systems for the future. With so many types of technologies in software stacks around the globe, OpenTelemetry has emerged as the de facto standard for gathering telemetry data.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

In the realm of modern software architecture, middleware plays a pivotal role in connecting various components of distributed systems. One of the most significant challenges faced by middleware applications is optimizing database interactions. This is crucial because middleware often serves as the bridge between client applications and backend databases, handling a high volume of requests and data processing tasks.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Scaling RabbitMQ ensures your system can handle growing traffic and maintain high performance. This guide will cover how to distribute workloads across multiple nodes, set up efficient clustering, and implement robust load-balancing techniques. Youll also learn strategies for maintaining data safety and managing node failures so your RabbitMQ setup is always up to the task.

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John McCalpin

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The Multicore Era Over the past ~15 years, server processors from Intel and AMD have evolved from the early quad-core processors to the current monsters with over 50 cores per socket. The memory subsystems have grown at similar rates, from 3-4 DRAM channels at 1.333 GT/s transfer rates to 8-12 DRAM channels with 4.8 GT/s transfer rates, providing an aggregate peak memory bandwidth increase of 10x or more.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Apache Struts 2 has a history of critical vulnerabilities. Broken Apache Struts 2: Technical Deep Dive into CVE-2024-53677The vulnerability allows attackers to manipulate file upload parameters, possibly leading to remote code execution. Figure 1. A high-level overview of how an attacker can exploit a CVE-2024-53677 vulnerable Struts application to upload a web shell into a web-accessible directory and then remotely execute commands on the web server via the web shell.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Part 1: Creating the Source of Truth for Impressions By: TulikaBhatt Imagine scrolling through Netflix, where each movie poster or promotional banner competes for your attention. Every image you hover over isnt just a visual placeholder; its a critical data point that fuels our sophisticated personalization engine. At Netflix, we call these images impressions, and they play a pivotal role in transforming your interaction from simple browsing into an immersive binge-watching experience, all tailo

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

PostgreSQL 17 improves performance, backups, JSON handling, and security. Heres what stands out: Key Takeaways Better Performance: Faster write operations and improved vacuum processes help handle high-concurrency workloads more smoothly. Incremental Backups: Speeds up recovery and makes data management more efficient for active databases. Improved JSON Handling & Security: Improved logical replication and the new MAINTAIN privilege give database administrators more control and flexibility.

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In developing the content for our May 8 virtual conference Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It , we couldnt help but want to feature Harper Reed, whose recent post My LLM Codegen Workflow ATM so perfectly encapsulates the kind of experimentation that developers are going through as they come to grips with the transformation that AI is bringing to how they work, what they can accomplish, and which tools they should be adopting.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

With the evolution of modern applications serving increasing needs for real-time data processing and retrieval, scalability does, too. One such open-source, distributed search and analytics engine is Elasticsearch, which is very efficient at handling data in large sets and high-velocity queries. However, the process for effectively scaling Elasticsearch can be nuanced, since one needs a proper understanding of the architecture behind it and of performance tradeoffs.

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Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

On Saturday, the ISO C++ committee completed the second-last design meeting of C++26, held in Hagenberg, Austria. There is just one meeting left before the C++26 feature set is finalized in June 2025 and draft C++26 is sent out for its international comment ballot (aka Committee Draft or CD), and C++26 is on track to be technically finalized two more meetings after that in early 2026.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

As we know,Orchestrator is a MySQL high availability and replication management tool that aids in managing farms of MySQL servers. In this blog post, we discuss how to make the Orchestrator (which manages MySQL) itself fault-tolerantand highly available. When considering HA for the Orchestrator one of the popular choices will be using the Raft consensus.

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

When I started working on the new edition of Head First C# back in 2023, AI tools like ChatGPT and Copilot were already changing how developers write and learn code. It was clear that I needed to cover them. But that raised an interesting challenge: How do you teach new and intermediate developers to use AI effectively? Almost all of the material that I found was aimed at senior developerspeople who can recognize patterns in code, spot the subtle errors often found in AI-generated code, and refi

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Dynatrace

MARCH 5, 2025

Globally, organizations are increasingly prioritizing sustainability. Board-level mandates and executive-level sponsorship have become the norm. Motivations include regulatory pressures, favorable investment potential, cost savings, competitive advantage, talent acquisition, and moral imperative. While a dynamic political climate can disrupt how these drivers are prioritized, the goal remains important, and momentum remains strong.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

When developing a product, issues inevitably arise that can impact both its performance and stability. Slow system response times, error rate increases, bugs, and failed updates can all damage the reputation and efficiency of your project. However, before addressing these problems, it is essential to gather and analyze statistics on their occurrence.

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Addy Osmani

MARCH 2, 2025

There is an underrated set of skills that truly differentiate outstanding interviewees from the rest

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InfoQ

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Jessica Felix discusses how to navigate the intricate balance between performance and observability, and the challenges of maintaining equilibrium.

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

On April 24, OReilly Media will be hosting Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It a live virtual tech conference spotlighting how AI is already supercharging developers, boosting productivity, and providing real value to their organizations. If youre in the trenches building tomorrows development practices today and interested in speaking at the event, wed love to hear from you by March 5.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 5, 2025

Log ingestion can seem daunting when getting started with Dynatrace, especially when staring at an empty screen in the Logs or Clouds apps. To address any concerns you and your new-to-Dynatrace teams may have regarding log ingestion, we’ve introduced a new and intuitive log onboarding wizard for DynatraceApps. The newly introduced step-by-step guidance streamlines the process, while quick data flow validation accelerates the onboarding experience even for power users.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

In the past years, AI agents have been everywhere across industries, autonomously and independently operating over extended periods using various tools to accomplish complex tasks. With the advent of numerous frameworks for building these AI agents, observability and DevTool platforms for AI agents have become essential in artificial intelligence. These platforms provide developers with powerful tools to monitor, debug, and optimize AI agents, ensuring their reliability, efficiency, and scalabil

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Percona

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Typically, we receive customer tickets regarding crashes or bugs, where we request a core dump to analyze and identify the root cause or understand the unexpected behavior. To read the core dumps, we also request the linked libraries used by the server’s MySQL.

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tRPC

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

We are excited to announce the new TanStack React Query integration for tRPC is now available on tRPC's next -release. Compared to our classic React Query Integration it's simpler and more TanStack Query-native, choosing to utilize the QueryOptions and MutationOptions interfaces native to TanStack React Query, instead of wrapping useQuery and useMutation with our own client. greeting.tsx tsx import { useQuery } from '@tanstack/react-query' ; import { useTRPC } from '.

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

On April 24, OReilly Media will be hosting Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It a live virtual tech conference spotlighting how AI is already supercharging developers, boosting productivity, and providing real value to their organizations. If youre in the trenches building tomorrows development practices today and interested in speaking at the event, wed love to hear from you by March 5.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Dynatrace integrates with AWS Security Hub to unify, visualize, and automate security findings across tools and environments. Adding Dynatrace runtime context to security findings allows smarter prioritization, helps reduce the noise from alerts, and focuses your DevSecOps teams on efficiently remedying the critical issues affecting your production environments and applications.

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DZone

MARCH 6, 2025

Efficient query caching is a critical part of application performance in data-intensive systems. Hibernate has supported query caching through its second-level cache and query cache mechanisms. However, earlier implementations lacked flexibility, and developers had limited control over cache invalidation and customization. Hibernate 6.3.0, released in December 2024, addresses these problems by introducing enhanced query caching mechanisms.

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Percona

MARCH 6, 2025

With Redis moving away from its open source roots, the key-value store ecosystem is shifting. For over 70% of users, Rediss recent licensing changes have created an urgent need for a cost-effective, fully open source alternative that avoids vendor lock-in. That’s where Valkey comes in.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 6, 2025

How To Fix Largest Contentful Issues With Subpart Analysis How To Fix Largest Contentful Issues With Subpart Analysis Matt Zeunert 2025-03-06T10:00:00+00:00 2025-03-06T14:50:25+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear The Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) in Core Web Vitals measures how quickly a website loads from a visitors perspective. It looks at how long after opening a page the largest content element becomes visible.

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Percona Community

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

In today’s landscape, where security breaches are a constant concern, reducing potential attack vectors is a top priority for any organization. Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) has established itself as a reliable solution for database performance monitoring. With the release of PMM version 3, Percona has significantly strengthened its security posture, notably by introducing support for rootless container deployments.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 5, 2025

If you’re a developer who has ever had to troubleshoot a database issue, you know how frustrating it can be. One slow query, an inefficient index, or a schema misstep can grind an application to a halt. And with cloud-native databases like PostgreSQL and MySQL, the complexity only grows. Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) also face significant challenges in maintaining database reliability, ensuring performance, and preventing disruptions in highly dynamic and distributed environments.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The Rise of LLMs and the Need for Efficiency In recent years, large language models (LLMs) such as GPT, Llama, and Mistral have impacted natural language understanding and generation. However, a significant challenge in deploying these models lies in optimizing their performance, particularly for tasks involving long text generation. One powerful technique to address this challenge is k ey-value caching (KV cache).

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Percona

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Data consistency and availability across distributed systems is crucial, particularly in environments that rely heavily on replication. In Valkey, one critical aspect of this replication process is the replication backlog size. This configuration parameter is vital in managing how much data can be temporarily stored to accommodate replicas that may fall behind the master node.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

This month, we've made some updates to our synthetic testing agents. In addition to upgrading the underlying operating system, we've added support for: Lighthouse 12.3.0 (previously 10.4.0) Chrome 133 (previously 126) Firefox 135 (previously 128) What has changed? We understand the sensitivity related to changes in your performance data. Synthetic updates are known to cause baseline changes due to hardware changes, browser optimization or in the case of Lighthouse, changes to the methodology.

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Percona Community

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Introduction Percona Operator for MongoDB is an open-source solution designed to streamline and automate database operations within Kubernetes. It allows users to effortlessly deploy and manage highly available, enterprise-grade MongoDB clusters.The operator simplifies both initial deployment and setup, as well as ongoing management tasks like backups, restores, scaling, and upgrades, ensuring seamless database lifecycle management.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

With the increasing frequency of cyber threats, identifying vulnerabilities early is essential. Recently, a critical vulnerability was discovered in Apache Struts, a widely used Java-based web application framework. This vulnerability, published as CVE-2024-53677 on December 11, 2024, affects the file upload mechanism, allowing for path traversal and potential remote code execution.

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DZone

MARCH 6, 2025

As organizations scale their data operations in the cloud, optimizing Snowflake performance on AWS becomes crucial for maintaining efficiency and controlling costs. This comprehensive guide explores advanced techniques and best practices for maximizing Snowflake performance, backed by practical examples and implementation strategies.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

At first glance, MongoDB Atlas seems like the perfect solutionan easy-to-use, fully managed cloud database that takes the hassle out of deployment and scaling. But as businesses grow, many discover that Atlass convenience comes at a costliterally.

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