Dynatrace

JUNE 16, 2025

As digital technologies have become ever more embedded within mission-critical services and customer-facing channels, observability has been elevated into a strategic business requirement. Organizations can no longer rely on manually monitoring the performance and availability of their applications and infrastructure. They need a real-time, end-to-end view of IT systems’ behavior and its direct impact on business outcomes, such as customer experience, conversions, and revenue.

Logistics 223

Logistics DevOps Cloud Efficiency 223

DZone

JUNE 16, 2025

In modern microservices architectures, achieving comprehensive observability is not just an option—it's a necessity. As applications scale dynamically within Kubernetes environments, tracking performance issues, enforcing security policies, and ensuring smooth deployments become complex challenges. Traditional monitoring solutions alone cannot fully address these challenges.

Metrics 100

Metrics Performance Architecture Monitoring 100

DZone

JUNE 10, 2025

Data quality has shifted from a checkpoint to being an operational requirement. As more and more data warehouses become cloud-native, and the complexity of running real-time pipelines increases, data engineers face a non-trivial problem: how to operationalize quality checks without slowing down the velocity of the ETL workflows. “Traditional post-load checks or static rules” do not suffice.

Cloud 186

Cloud Latency Data Engineering Engineering 186

Percona

JUNE 5, 2025

TL;DR Percona Server for MySQL now offers experimental support for stored programs in the JS language. This free and open source alternative to Oracle’s Enterprise/Cloud-only feature enables users to write stored programs in a more modern, convenient, and often more familiar language.

Programming 110

Programming Servers Open Source Cloud 110

O'Reilly

JUNE 18, 2025

It feels like every other AI announcement lately mentions “agents.” And already, the AI community has 2025 pegged as “the year of AI agents,” sometimes without much more detail than “They’ll be amazing!” Often forgotten in this hype are the fundamentals. Everybody is dreaming of armies of agents, booking hotels and flights, researching complex topics, and writing PhD theses for us.

Design 71

Design Systems Logistics Servers 71

Sutter's Mill

JUNE 21, 2025

A unique milestone: “Whole new language” Today marks a turning point in C++: A few minutes ago, the C++ committee voted the first seven (7) papers for compile-time reflection into draft C++26 to several sustained rounds of applause in the room. I think Hana “Ms. Constexpr” Dusíková summarized the impact of this feature best a few days ago, in her calm deadpan way… when she was told that the reflection paper was going to make it to the Saturday adoption poll, she gav

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Dynatrace

JUNE 17, 2025

When you’re working with complex, multi-layered data, pinpointing the root cause of an issue or identifying anomalies can feel like trying to find a flickering light in a city skyline. Effective troubleshooting demands a deep understanding of data structures, filters, and query logic. But what happens when you’re staring at a mountain of logs or metrics and don’t even know what to look for?

AWS 213

AWS Analytics DevOps Metrics 213

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 12, 2025

By Alex Hutter , Alexandre Bertails , Claire Wang , Haoyuan He , Kishore Banala , Peter Royal , Shervin Afshar As Netflix’s offerings grow — across films, series, games, live events, and ads — so does the complexity of the systems that support it. Core business concepts like ‘actor’ or ‘movie’ are modeled in many places: in our Enterprise GraphQL Gateway powering internal apps, in our asset management platform storing media assets, in our media computing platform that powers encoding pipelines,

Architecture 207

Architecture Government Java Systems 207

O'Reilly

JUNE 5, 2025

This is the third of four parts in this series. Part 1 can be found here and Part 2 can be found here. 7. Building or Integrating an MCP Server: What It Takes Given these examples, you might wonder: How do I build an MCP server for my own application or integrate one thats out there? The good news is that the MCP spec comes with a lot of support (SDKs, templates, and a growing knowledge base), but it does require understanding both your applications API and some MCP basics.

Servers 88

Servers Tuning Transportation Latency 88

Percona

JUNE 6, 2025

If your database is getting slower, your users don’t care why. They just want it to work. Meanwhile, you’re stuck dealing with the symptoms: sluggish apps, spiking resource usage, and support tickets piling up faster than your monitoring alerts can handle.

Hardware 98

Hardware Database Monitoring Software 98

Dynatrace

JUNE 12, 2025

Understanding user authentication patterns and security events is critical for maintaining robust application security. Auth0, a leader in identity management, is a secure and customizable identity platform that simplifies authentication and authorization for applications of any scale. Auth0 generates rich logs detailing every authentication event. Meanwhile, Dynatrace provides powerful observability across your entire technology stack.

Monitoring 203

Monitoring Analytics Best Practices Metrics 203

DZone

JUNE 2, 2025

PostgreSQL is already known for its reliability, extensibility, and open-source pedigree and continues to grow and evolve with each release. PostgreSQL 17 introduces several performance improvements and features that make it a powerhouse for Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) and Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) workloads. This blog will explore advanced performance tuning techniques for PostgreSQL 17 and highlight key improvements compared to versions 15 and 16.

Tuning 147

Tuning Performance Open Source Analytics 147

Uber Engineering

JUNE 4, 2025

What if chatbots could deliver near-human precision? Learn how we adapted Genie, Ubers on-call copilot, to use enhanced agentic RAG for improved accuracy.

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InfoQ

JUNE 12, 2025

Apple has migrated its global Password Monitoring service from Java to Swift, achieving a 40% increase in throughput and significantly reducing memory usage—freeing up nearly 50% of previously allocated Kubernetes capacity.

Java 63

Java Performance Monitoring C++ 63

Percona

JUNE 9, 2025

Patroni is a Python-based template for managing high availability PostgreSQL clusters. Originally a fork of the Governor project by Compose, Patroni has evolved significantly with many new features and active community development. It supports integration with various Distributed Configuration Stores (DCS) like etcd, Consul, and ZooKeeper, and provides simple setup and robust failover management.

Performance 72

Performance Availability Development 72

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2025

In observability’s early days, we often talked about the “three pillars.” That is, traces, logs, and metrics, which gave us the information to make our systems observable. The problem with referring to these three signals as “pillars” is that it implies they’re siloed and therefore independent of each other, when in fact, the exact opposite is true.

Best Practices 198

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DZone

JUNE 13, 2025

Legacy systems in financial institutions often lead to scalability bottlenecks, security risks, and poor resiliency. In the modern digital economy, banks, payment providers, and fintech firms need infrastructure that is cost-effective, agile, and resilient. Cloud-based microservices have emerged as a modern approach to address these needs. By breaking monolithic systems into modular services, financial firms can accelerate innovation, reduce downtime.

FinTech 124

FinTech Systems Cloud Scalability 124

O'Reilly

JUNE 6, 2025

In a recent episode of High Signal , we spoke with Dr. Fei-Fei Li about what it really means to build human-centered AI, and where the field might be heading next. Fei-Fei doesn’t describe AI as a feature or even an industry. She calls it a “civilizational technology”—a force as foundational as electricity or computing itself. This has serious implications for how we design, deploy, and govern AI systems across institutions, economies, and everyday life.

Education 65

Education Government Healthcare Transportation 65

Percona Community

JUNE 17, 2025

Before we start, what is active-active? Active-active , also referred to as multi-primary , is a setup where multiple database nodes can accept writes at the same time and propagate those changes to the others. In comparison, regular streaming replication in PostgreSQL allows only one node (the primary) to accept writes. All other nodes (replicas) are read-only and follow changes.

Storage 83

Storage Database Design 83

Percona

JUNE 13, 2025

As a member of the Kubernetes Certified Services Provider program, Percona is now part of a select, “pre-qualified tier of vetted service providers who have deep experience helping enterprises successfully adopt Kubernetes…” Kubernetes (frequently abbreviated as K8s) has come a long way over the past decade.

Open Source 71

Open Source Database Programming Cloud 71

Dynatrace

JUNE 19, 2025

Dynatrace introduces a new advanced way to enhance your DQL queries in Security Investigator cases. The pivoting queries concept allows engineers to quickly change the investigation context by switching the scope of a query using available pivoting dimensions. Time is critical Imagine you’re investigating latency issues in your cloud applications by analyzing your Istio proxy logs with Security Investigator.

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Latency Speed Cloud Infrastructure 193

Uber Engineering

JUNE 4, 2025

Database backups are critical for business continuity. Learn how Uber scaled stateful fleet backup and recovery across 10K database applications.

Database 67

Database 67

Percona Community

JUNE 2, 2025

PMM 3.2.0 brings some long-awaited fixes and new capabilities. You can now install PMM Client on Amazon Linux 2023 with proper RPM packages, get complete MySQL 8.4 replication monitoring, and track MongoDB backups directly in PMM. Here’s what’s most important in this release: 1. Native Amazon Linux 2023 support - no more workarounds What’s new: If you’ve been running PMM Client on AL2023 and dealing with complex manual installations, those days are over.

Monitoring 64

Monitoring 64

Percona

JUNE 19, 2025

Percona has always been more than just a company—it’s a mission-driven community built on a strong foundation of innovation, resilience, and open source excellence. For nearly two decades, Percona has been a trusted partner to organizations around the world, remaining steadfast in our mission while continuing to grow, improve, and evolve.

Open Source 82

Open Source Innovation 82

Dynatrace

JUNE 17, 2025

In this blog post, we’ll walk you through how to observe your collectors using Dynatrace Dashboards and highlight the valuable insights you can gain from their internal telemetry. Next, we’ll show you how to set up Davis® Anomaly Detection to continuously track your collectors. You’ll learn how to configure alerts that notify you of any deviations from healthy behavior, ensuring proactive issue detection and faster response times.

Monitoring 146

Monitoring Metrics Best Practices Efficiency 146

DZone

JUNE 5, 2025

Optimizing a Snowflake data warehouse (DWH) is crucial for ensuring high performance, cost-efficiency, and long-term effectiveness in data processing and analytics. The following outlines the key reasons optimization is essential: Performance Optimization Why It's Important Query Speed: As data volumes grow, unoptimized queries can slow down performance, resulting in longer execution times and poor user experience.

Efficiency 113

Efficiency Scalability Performance Speed 113

O'Reilly

JUNE 16, 2025

This is the last of four parts in this series. Part 1 can be found here , Part 2 here , and Part 3 here. 9. Future Directions and Wishlist for MCP The trajectory of MCP and AI tool integration is exciting, and there are clear areas where the community and companies are pushing things forward. Here are some future directions and “wishlist” items that could shape the next wave of MCP development: Formalized security and authentication: As noted, one of the top needs is standard security mechanisms

Servers 55

Servers Tuning Software Engineering Strategy 55

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 13, 2025

Photo of the formal garden at Great Fosters taken by Adrian With help from Cursor, I created a Model Context Protocol server for my “virtual adrianco” author persona containing over 600 pieces of content and references to videos and podcasts. Then I connected it to Cursor and tried to figure out how to use it. There are some crude keyword tags and summaries in the MCP server and eventually I asked Cursor/Claude to “Summarize the content related to platform engineering, including links to videos,

Engineering 52

Engineering DevOps Serverless AWS 52

Percona

JUNE 16, 2025

Repmgr is an open source tool suite for managing replication and failover in a cluster of PostgreSQL servers. It enhances PostgreSQL’s built-in hot-standby capabilities with tools to set up standby servers, monitor replication, and perform administrative tasks such as failover or manual switchover operations.

Open Source 63

Open Source Servers Monitoring Performance 63

Dynatrace

JUNE 5, 2025

Business Insights is a unique team within Dynatrace that partners with organizations to maximize their value from Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) and Business Analytics, through our deep product expertise and exclusive technology capabilities. The Business Insights team provides product configuration and best practices, exclusive analytics and analysis to drive improved customer experience, and expertise on demand.

Airlines 170

Airlines Analytics Retail Monitoring 170

DZone

JUNE 9, 2025

Microservices have become the go-to approach for building systems that need to scale efficiently and stay resilient under pressure. However, a microservices architecture comes with many potential points of failure—dozens or even hundreds of distributed components communicating over a network. To ensure your code makes it all the way to the customer without hiccups, you need to design for failure from the start.

Code 100

Code Strategy Architecture Network 100

InfoQ

JUNE 20, 2025

Proficient in analyzing the dynamics of Apache Kafka Stretch Clusters, I assess WAN disruptions and devise effective Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies. With deep expertise, I ensure high availability and data integrity across multi-region deployments. My insights optimize operational resilience, safeguarding vital services against service level agreement violations.

Strategy 60

Strategy Availability Storage Scalability 60

Testsigma

JUNE 19, 2025

Test management software helps teams coordinate and oversee the testing phase of software development. Tuskr has risen to fame in the past few years, and many people have started using it. However, people using Tuskr have started facing issues and are looking for other options. Finding the right tool for your team can be difficult. Therefore, in this article, we will discuss some of the best Tuskr alternatives available.

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Percona

JUNE 17, 2025

Percona commits to delivering robust, enterprise-grade, and community-driven software for MongoDB. We build our databases and tools to meet evolving data needs. As MongoDB continues to evolve, we’ve updated and clarified our release strategy for the Percona Software for MongoDB suite.

Software 74

Software Software Strategy Database 74

Dynatrace

JUNE 17, 2025

The next big wave in artificial intelligence is agentic AI, which harnesses autonomous agents to perform tasks by reasoning, learning, and adapting to changing circumstances. The success and efficiency of agentic AI systems depend on how well these AI agents communicate. Facilitating this communication requires monitoring AI agents and their underlying communication protocols, such as Model Context Protocol (MCP).

Monitoring 146

Monitoring Best Practices Artificial Intelligence AWS 146

DZone

JUNE 4, 2025

As SQL Server databases become increasingly targeted by cybercriminals, it's crucial to adopt proactive security measures. Traditional database security mechanisms, such as access controls, role-based permissions, and firewalls, are important but may not be sufficient to detect advanced threats or malicious insider activities. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to integrate AI-powered anomaly detection to enhance the security of your SQL Server environment.

Servers 113

Servers Database Processing Systems 113

Speed Curve

JUNE 11, 2025

If you run a Shopify store, you already know how critical it is to provide a seamless shopping experience. That's why I was so excited when the folks at SpeedCurve asked me to draw on my Shopify experience to build their new RUM app for Shopify storefronts. Now I'm here to let you know how it works and why it's an important part of your UX toolset. In ecommerce, speed isn’t just nice to have – it’s a competitive advantage.

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