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Observability platform vs. observability tools

Dynatrace

Complex information systems fail in unexpected ways. Observability gives developers and system operators real-time awareness of a highly distributed system’s current state based on the data it generates. With observability, teams can understand what part of a system is performing poorly and how to correct the problem.

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Fallacy #8: The network is homogeneous

Particular Software

Around 2005 or 2006, it wasn’t so bad. From Udi Dahan's free Distributed Systems Design Fundamentals video course Semantic interoperability The true challenge of non-homogenous networks lies in semantic interoperability. Consider for a moment a software system for a hospital emergency room. Interoperability is painful.

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An Unbelievable Demo

Brendan Gregg

It was 2005, and I felt like I was in the eye of a hurricane. I was an independent performance consultant and Sun Microsystems had just released DTrace, a tool that could instrument all software. However, I was doing training and consulting for Sun, helping their customers with system administration and performance.

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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

The problem is that this system has a default libc that has been compiled without frame pointers, so any stack walking stops at the libc layer, producing a partial stack that's missing the application frames. We may get there with future technologies I'll cover later. These partial stacks get grouped together on the left.

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The Amazing Evolution of In-Memory Computing

ScaleOut Software

Going back to the mid-1990s, online systems have seen relentless, explosive growth in usage, driven by ecommerce, mobile applications, and more recently, IoT. For more than two decades, the answer to this challenge has proven to be a technology called in-memory computing. From Distributed Caches to Real-Time Digital Twins.

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The Amazing Evolution of In-Memory Computing

ScaleOut Software

Going back to the mid-1990s, online systems have seen relentless, explosive growth in usage, driven by ecommerce, mobile applications, and more recently, IoT. For more than two decades, the answer to this challenge has proven to be a technology called in-memory computing. From Distributed Caches to Real-Time Digital Twins.

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Echoes

The Agile Manager

When I first joined ThoughtWorks in 2005, one of our core messages was to solve an “outer quadrant” problem first - something in the problem space that is difficult and complex. The emerging personal computer technology of the time enabled this tremendously. I was overjoyed to hear the client say this. Quick wins” attack the margins.