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Reinventing our Dynatrace Core Values

Dynatrace

Values are the fabric of who we are, what we stand for as a company, and how we deliver what we promise to ourselves and our stakeholders. Studies show that purpose matters now more than ever to individuals, and core values serve as the key to creating a thriving business environment. Since taking on the role of Chief People Office at Dynatrace in the summer of 2022, my key focus has been developing and continually evolving an outstanding, globally cohesive employee experience to support and str

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ChatGPT, Author of The Quixote

O'Reilly

TL;DR LLMs and other GenAI models can reproduce significant chunks of training data. Specific prompts seem to “unlock” training data. We have many current and future copyright challenges: training may not infringe copyright, but legal doesn’t mean legitimate—we consider the analogy of MegaFace where surveillance models have been trained on photos of minors, for example, without informed consent.

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Getting Started With NCache Java Edition (Using Docker)

DZone

NCache Java Edition with distributed cache technique is a powerful tool that helps Java applications run faster, handle more users, and be more reliable. In today's world, where people expect apps to work quickly and without any problems, knowing how to use NCache Java Edition is very important. It's a key piece of technology for both developers and businesses who want to make sure their apps can give users fast access to data and a smooth experience.

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Supporting Diverse ML Systems at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

David J. Berg , Romain Cledat , Kayla Seeley , Shashank Srikanth , Chaoying Wang , Darin Yu Netflix uses data science and machine learning across all facets of the company, powering a wide range of business applications from our internal infrastructure and content demand modeling to media understanding. The Machine Learning Platform (MLP) team at Netflix provides an entire ecosystem of tools around Metaflow , an open source machine learning infrastructure framework we started, to empower data sc

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Linux Crisis Tools

Brendan Gregg

When you have an outage caused by a performance issue, you don't want to lose precious time just to install the tools needed to diagnose it. Here is a list of "crisis tools" I recommend installing on your Linux servers by default (if they aren't already), along with the (Ubuntu) package names that they come from: Package Provides Notes procps ps(1), vmstat(8), uptime(1), top(1) basic stats util-linux dmesg(1), lsblk(1), lscpu(1) system log, device info sysstat iostat(1), mpstat

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District heating: Using data centers to heat communities

All Things Distributed

An inside look at the Tallaght District Heating Scheme, where Heat Works is using recycled heat from an AWS data center to warm a community in Dublin, Ireland.

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The State of Observability 2024: Navigating Complexity With AI-Driven Insights

DZone

In today's fast-paced digital landscape, organizations are increasingly embracing multi-cloud environments and cloud-native architectures to drive innovation and deliver seamless customer experiences. However, the 2024 State of Observability report from Dynatrace reveals that the explosion of data generated by these complex ecosystems is pushing traditional monitoring and analytics approaches to their limits.

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Uber Builds Scalable Chat Using Microservices with GraphQL Subscriptions and Kafka

InfoQ

Uber replaced a legacy architecture built using the WAMP protocol with a new solution that takes advantage of GraphQL subscriptions. The main drivers for creating a new architecture were challenges around reliability, scalability, observability/debugibility, as well as technical debt impeding the team’s ability to maintain the existing solution.

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eBPF Documentary

Brendan Gregg

eBPF is a crazy technology – like putting JavaScript into the Linux kernel – and getting it accepted had so far been an untold story of strategy and ingenuity. The eBPF documentary, published late last year, tells this story by interviewing key players from 2014 including myself, and touches on new developments including Windows. (If you are new to eBPF, it is the name of a kernel execution engine that runs a variety of new programs in a performant and safe sandbox in the kernel, lik

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How Can I Take a Backup of Configuration Files in PostgreSQL?

Percona

PostgreSQL configuration file parameters are very important when managing a PostgreSQL database, and this blog post will discuss the importance of backing those files up. The following are the primary configuration files of the PostgreSQL database:postgresql.conf: One of the most important configuration files for the PostgreSQL database is postgresql.conf file.

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Essential Techniques for Performance Tuning in Snowflake

DZone

Performance tuning in Snowflake is optimizing the configuration and SQL queries to improve the efficiency and speed of data operations. It involves adjusting various settings and writing queries to reduce execution time and resource consumption, ultimately leading to cost savings and enhanced user satisfaction.

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Driving your FinOps strategy with observability best practices

Dynatrace

Overseeing cloud spend and IT resource allocation has always been a priority for CIOs. Yet, in 2023, 82% of cloud decision makers reported that managing cloud spend was their top challenge, according to one source. In response, many organizations are adopting a FinOps strategy. FinOps is an evolving cloud financial management discipline focused on enabling organizations to get maximum business value from their cloud spend.

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What is System Testing? – Getting Started, Tips, and Tools

Testlodge

System testing involves analyzing the behavior and functionality of a fully integrated application. It is the third of the four levels of testing, performed after unit and integration testing but before user acceptance testing. A QA team member will usually do the assessing, or occasionally the task will fall to other team members such as product or project managers.

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Managing Time Series Data Using TimeScaleDB-Powered PostgreSQL

Percona

PostgreSQL extensions are great! Simply by adding an extension, one transforms what is an otherwise vanilla general-purpose database management system into one capable of processing data requirements in a highly optimized fashion. Some extensions, like pg_repack, simplify and enhance existing features already, while other extensions, such as PostGIS and pgvector, add completely new capabilities.

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Machine Learning: A Revolutionizing Force in Cybersecurity

DZone

The cybersecurity landscape necessitates continual adaptation and exploration of novel defensive strategies to counter the evolving threats posed by malicious actors. Machine learning ( ML ) has emerged as a powerful tool for bolstering cybersecurity, offering innovative approaches to anomaly detection, intrusion prevention, and threat identification.

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What the NIS2 Directive means for application security

Dynatrace

The Network and Information Systems 2 (NIS2) Directive, which goes into effect in Oct 2024, aims to enhance the security of network and information systems throughout the EU. The directive mandates operators of critical infrastructure and essential services to implement appropriate security measures and promptly report any incidents to the relevant authorities and affected parties.

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Hello INP! Here's everything you need to know about the newest Core Web Vital

Speed Curve

After years of development and testing, Google has added Interaction to Next Paint (INP) to its trifecta of Core Web Vitals – the performance metrics that are a key ingredient in its search ranking algorithm. INP replaces First Input Delay (FID) as the Vitals responsiveness metric. Not sure what INP means or why it matters? No worries – that's what this post is for. :) What is INP?

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Presentation: The Journey to a Million Ops / Sec / Node in Venice

InfoQ

Alex Dubrouski, Gaojie Liu discuss some of the tricks used in their pursuit to lower read latency and to reach 1M operations per second per node.

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Do You Leverage Index-Only Scans in PostgreSQL? Do You Want To?

Percona

In a previous blog, One Index, Three Different PostgreSQL Scan Types: Bitmap, Index, and Index Only, we reviewed three ways PostgreSQL can use an index to retrieve data as quickly as possible.

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Organizing Knowledge With Knowledge Graphs: Industry Trends

DZone

Knowledge graphs are a giant web of information where elements and ideas are linked to show how they are related in the real world. This is beyond databases that just store information. Knowledge graphs also store the connections between information. This makes knowledge graphs very useful in various fields.

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Tech Transforms podcast: The path forward for AI in the government

Dynatrace

The artificial intelligence (AI) age has arrived and the public sector is steadily moving forward with AI advancements. According to Gartner®, “annual global survey of over 2,400 CIOs and technology executives found that 25% of governments have deployed, or plan to deploy GenAI in the next 12 months. A further 25% plan to deploy in the next 24 months.” 1 Within the U.S. federal government, agencies are leveraging AI tools for more than 700 use cases.

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Open Door MongoDB Chats

Percona Community

Let’s talk about MongoDB! This week, Jan Wieremjewicz, Senior Product Manager, and Michal Nosek, Pre-Sales Enterprise Architect at Percona, made two series of videos covering basic to advanced concepts in MongoDB and backups. Le’s explore them together! Enterprise Scale Backups for MongoDB with Open Source Software In the first video about enterprise-scale backups for MongoDB using open-source software, Jan and Michal discuss the challenges and solutions associated with backing up large datasets

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Hashnode Creates Scalable Feed Architecture on AWS with Step Functions, EventBridge and Redis

InfoQ

Hashnode created a scalable event-driven architecture (EDA) for composing feed data for thousands of users. The company used serverless services on AWS, including Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, and Redis Cache. The solution leverages Step Functions' distributed maps feature that enables high-concurrency processing.

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Percona XtraBackup 8.0.28 Supports Encrypted Table Backups with AWS KMS

Percona

Percona XtraBackup (PXB) version 8.0.28 supports taking backups for the encrypted tables in your MySQL database using the AWS Key Management Service. For setting up data-at-rest encryption using AWS key management service, please see Configuring Keyring for Encryption Using AWS Key Management Service in Percona Server for MySQL.

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AWS Fargate: Deploy and Run Web API (.NET Core)

DZone

Fargate is a serverless compute engine for containers that works with both Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS. With AWS Fargate, we can run applications without managing servers ( official information page ). In this post, we will take a step-by-step approach to deploying and running a.NET Core Web API application on AWS Fargate Service.

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What is application security monitoring?

Dynatrace

Rising cloud complexity has made securing cloud-native and multicloud applications significantly more difficult. With the pace of digital transformation continuing to accelerate, organizations are realizing the growing imperative to have a robust application security monitoring process in place. Cloud applications are built with the help of a software supply chain, such as OSS libraries and third-party software.

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Creating a Standby Cluster With the Percona Operator for PostgreSQL

Percona Community

In this video, Nickolay Ihalainen, a Senior Scaling Specialist at Percona Global Services, explains how to set up replication with standby clusters for Kubernetes databases using Percona’s open-source tools, including the Percona Operator for PostgreSQL A Standby Cluster is a backup version of your main database. It’s there to keep your data safe and make sure your database can keep running even if something goes wrong with the main one.

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Presentation: Scaling Organizations with Platform Engineering

InfoQ

Lesley Cordero focuses on how Platform Engineering can drive sustainability for growing organizations through DevOps principles, centralization, and scalable technical practices.

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Boosting IT Productivity: The Crucial Role of ITIL Knowledge for DBAs

Percona

Comprehensive knowledge of ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) processes proves advantageous for Database Administrators (DBAs) as it significantly elevates the efficiency of an IT organization. Let’s take a closer look at why ITIL knowledge processes is valuable and how it can enhance productivity:1.

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Istio Explained: Unlocking the Power of Service Mesh in Microservices

DZone

In the dynamic landscape of microservices, managing communication and ensuring robust security and observability becomes a Herculean task. This is where Istio, a revolutionary service mesh, steps in, offering an elegant solution to these challenges. This article delves deep into the essence of Istio, illustrating its pivotal role in a Kubernetes (KIND) based environment, and guides you through a Helm-based installation process, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of Istio's capabilities and i

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Bring syslog into Dynatrace using OpenTelemetry to get open source value with enterprise support

Dynatrace

Getting insights into the health and disruptions of your networking or infrastructure is fundamental to enterprise observability. Syslog is the go-to protocol that delivers infrastructure administrators, network engineers, and security team logs that tell them all they need to know about their systems’ delivery, performance, availability, and security.

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Top 5 Benefits of Software Test Management Tools

Kovair

A key component of success in the dynamic field of software development is quality assurance. Robust testing procedures are becoming increasingly necessary as software projects.

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Expedia Speeds up Flights Search with Micro Frontends and GraphQL Optimizations

InfoQ

Expedia made flight search faster by up to 52% (page usable time) by applying a range of optimizations to web and mobile applications. To support these improvements, the company improved the observability of its applications. Expedia Flights web application has been migrated to Micro Frontend Architecture (MFA) to allow flexibility, reusability, and better optimization.

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Using Percona Backup for MongoDB in Replica Set and Sharding Environment: Part Two

Percona

In Using Percona Backup for MongoDB in Replica Set and Sharding Environment: Part One, I demonstrated a basic Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) setup under the Replica Set and Sharding environment. Now, here we will see some advanced stuff and other backup/restore options available with PBM.Let’s discuss each one.

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Scalable Products: Why, When, and How to Scale Your Digital Product?

DZone

Do you know what the global edtech and smart classroom market size was in 2022? No idea? Then, we must inform you that it was somewhere around USD 115.80 billion, which is estimated to grow from USD 133.55 billion in 2023 to USD 433.17 billion in 2030. Yes, you read that right! And among all the contributors to these numbers, Physics Wallah has been a well-known name.

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Dynatrace SaaS release notes version 1.287

Dynatrace

We have released Dynatrace version 1.287. To learn what’s new, have a look at the release notes. The post Dynatrace SaaS release notes version 1.287 appeared first on Dynatrace news.

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Release Roundup March 18, 2024

Percona Community

Percona software releases and updates March 5 - March 18, 2024. Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Percona software is designed for peak performance, uncompromised security, limitless scalability, and disaster-proofed availability.