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Unmatched scalability and security of Dynatrace extensions now available for all supported technologies: 7 reasons to migrate your JMX and Python plugins

Dynatrace

Extensions can monitor virtually any type of technology in your environment. focused on technology coverage, building on the flexibility of JMX for Java and Python-based coded extensions for everything else. before October 2024. Read on to see how the migration will be supported and when. Why Extension Framework 2.0

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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

2014: Java in Flames Broken Java Stacks (2014) When I joined Netflix in 2014, I found Java's lack of frame pointer support broke all application stacks (pictured in my 2014 Surge talk on the right). 2023, 2024: Frame Pointers in Fedora and Ubuntu! Java, for example, has the -XX:+PreserveFramePointer option.

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C++ safety, in context

Sutter's Mill

All languages have CVEs, C++ just has more (and C still more); so far in 2024, Rust has 6 CVEs , and C and C++ combined have 61 CVEs. The main improvement MSLs give is that a program data race will not corrupt the languageā€™s own virtual machine (whereas in C++ a data race is currently all-bets-are-off undefined behavior).

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