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Dynatrace news. Can you believe it’s been two weeks since our annual Perform Summit Barcelona? If you were unable to attend the event, don’t worry, you can catch up on all the action below. MORE
Dynatrace news. In software, observability refers to telemetry produced by services. Observability is divided into three major verticals—metrics, logs, and distributed traces—the so-called three pillars of observability. MORE
Dynatrace news. The Dynatrace LATAM team were delighted to host the third successful Partner Summit in Medellín, Colombia for more than 80 partners from 7 different countries. At the Partner Awards dinner, we recognized and celebrated the contribution and success of all our LATAM partners. MORE
Dynatrace news. Dynatrace Davis automatically analyzes abnormal situations within your IT infrastructure and reports all relevant impacts and root causes. MORE
Dynatrace news. Red Hat just announced the availability of their OpenShift 4.0 container platform at the Red Hat Summit in Boston. We worked closely with our friends from Red Hat to provide a seamless experience of our software intelligence platform for the new OpenShift 4.0 release. MORE
Dynatrace news. It feels like just yesterday DevOps was all the rage, and everything had to be “Cloud” in order to be modern. These days, most organizations have embraced the benefits of DevOps and are running one or more of their applications on somebody else’s computer. MORE
Dynatrace news. Welcome back to the blog series in which we summarize the findings of our Autonomous Cloud Management Survey. In part 1 we examined the Dev-to-Ops ratios that organizations have for their most critical application projects. MORE
One of the quickest wins—and one of the first things I recommend my clients do—to make websites faster can at first seem counter-intuitive: you should self-host all of your static assets, forgoing others’ CDNs/infrastructure. MORE
Dynatrace news. New features and enhancements. Leverage the power of Davis AI with custom time-series events for your specific use cases (Preview). More flexible SAML configuration. Our default settings work well for most SSO servers that utilize the SAML protocol. MORE
Dynatrace news. Welcome back to the blog series in which we share how you can easily solve three common problem scenarios by using Dynatrace and xMatters Flow Designer. MORE
Dynatrace news. Dynatrace Dashboards are constantly updated with new capabilities. If you want to get up to speed, check out my recent Performance Clinics: “ AI-Powered Dashboarding ” and “ Advanced Business Dashboarding and Analytics ”. MORE
Dynatrace news. Reporting deltas (i.e, comparing differences) between sets of timeframes or other logical units, is a valuable practice for evaluating business success. MORE
Dynatrace news. Use the Artificial Intelligence”, it is not a Jedi Trick. Old School monitoring. I have worked on many accounts where Dynatrace replaced tools such as Nagios and Solarwinds. Basically, what we call “first-generation” monitoring software. MORE
Dynatrace news. I’m going to revisit the Dynatrace digital transformation in this blog, because it is also an excellent story that began our journey to Autonomous Cloud Management (ACM). MORE
Dynatrace news. At Dynatrace, we’re constantly striving to come up with solutions that can help modernize your performance and user experience monitoring strategies. MORE
Dynatrace news. I love data. I have spent virtually my entire career looking at data. Synthetic data, network data, system data, and the list goes on. MORE
Dynatrace news. In April of this year, we released a long-awaited GA version of the full-stack OneAgent for the IBM AIX operating system. This release enriched our family of full-stack OneAgents with an important contribution. MORE
In our previous blog posts, we discussed the capabilities and functioning of PostgreSQL Automatic Failover (PAF) by Cluster Labs and Replication Manager (repmgr) by 2ndQuadrant. In the final post of this series, we will review the last solution, Patroni by Zalando, and compare all three at the end so you can determine which high availability framework is best for your PostgreSQL hosting deployment. Managing High Availability in PostgreSQL – Part I: PostgreSQL Automatic Failover. MORE
Dynatrace news. Over the last few weeks, the Dynatrace team from across the Asia-Pacific region has been on the road as part of the exhilarating Dynatrace PerformGo! World Tour. MORE
I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. I decided to publish a few parts here to see if anything triggers a discussion. It would be published as separate posts: – Introduction (a short teaser). – Cloud. – Agile. Continuous Integration (this post). – New Architectures. – New Technologies. MORE
I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. I decided to publish a few parts here to see if anything triggers a discussion. It would be published as separate posts: – Introduction (a short teaser). – Cloud. – Agile. – Continuous Integration. New Architectures (this post). – New Technologies. MORE
I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. I decided to publish a few parts here to see if anything triggers a discussion. It would be published as separate posts: – Introduction (a short teaser). – Cloud. Agile (this post). – Continuous Integration. – New Architectures. – New Technologies. MORE
There was a rather heated discussion around A Context-Driven Approach to Automation in Testing by James Bach and Michael Bolton (referred below as the article and the authors – other references would be explicit). Here are a couple of places where it got fiercely attacked Reviewing “Context Driven Approach to Automation in Testing” by Chris McMahon. and Open letter to “CDT Test Automation” reviewers as well as in many other different places. MORE
I am very excited by the upcoming CMG imPACt performance and capacity conference. This year it would be held on November 6-9, 2017 in New Orleans, LA. It is only such vendor-neutral, 4-day, 5-track conference devoted completely to performance, capacity, scalability, and adjacent topics. It is organized by CMG (Computer Measurement Group) , a not-for-profit, worldwide organization of performance and capacity planning professionals. MORE
I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. I decided to publish a few parts here to see if anything triggers a discussion. MORE
An interesting discussion started around a very good post Open Source Load Testing Tool Review by Ragnar Lönn. Somehow the latest comment, which I got in my e-mail, didn’t get published. So I decided to copy the discussion as is and publish the comment (and my answer) here. Check the original post (as well as many other great posts) following the link above – but the discussion below is somewhat independent. MORE
I was honored to write a preface to the great new book Master Apache JMeter. From load testing to DevOps. Here it is: An important event, directly related to this book, happened recently and probably went unnoticed. It appears that Apache JMeter became the most popular load testing tool. MORE
One software vendor ask me, along with a few other performance professionals, to answer questions related to performance trends. But they changed their mind and never published it – leaving me to contemplate which particular thought they didn’t like… Well, here are their questions and my answers: What do you think is the “next big thing in performance” – or what should we all keep an eye out for in 2018? MORE
Disclaimers: I was not approached or hired by Hoefler&Co or Cloud.typography to look into any of the following issues. I disclosed all of the below to Cloud.typography and gave them ample opportunity to work together to solve the issues at the root of the problem. MORE
Guest Post by Wendy Dessler. Source- Pixabay. When trying to develop a new piece of software or an app, one of the first things a developer has to do is pick a programming language. For years, the debate has raged on regarding which programming language is better, Java or Scala. MORE
Dynatrace news. In my current work, I spend a lot of time with keptn – an Open Source Control Plane for Continuous Deployment and Automated Operations. I deployed keptn on a GKE cluster and it’s been running there for the past couple of weeks. MORE
PostgreSQL graphical user interface (GUI) tools help these open source database users to manage, manipulate, and visualize their data. In this post, we discuss the top 5 GUI tools for administering your PostgreSQL deployments. MORE
Dynatrace news. With the release of Dynatrace 1.175, we’ve improved the content validation capabilities of synthetic browser and clickpath monitors. The contains text content validation option now mimics the Find (Ctrl+F/Cmd+F) functionality of a web browser. MORE
Dynatrace news. I was fortunate enough to get invited to our PerformGo! APAC Series. MORE
Dynatrace news. Kubernetes (k8s) provides basic monitoring through the Kubernetes API and you can find instructions like Top 9 Open Source Tools for Monitoring Kubernetes as a “do it yourself guide”. For EKS – Amazon’s Kubernetes Service – you can get a preview of CloudWatch Container Insights. MORE
My post Good Times for Load Testing was published in 2014. It is difficult to believe that 5 years passed… Are times still good for load testing? Well, yes and no. I am not so upbeat as I was in 2014. MORE
Dynatrace news. The path to Autonomous Cloud Management (ACM) and NoOps is a transformational journey that reaches all parts of an organization. It fundamentally changes how teams and tools work together with a common goal: deliver software faster, more frequently and with a higher degree of quality. MORE
Dynatrace news. As microservices and automation continue to drive API usage, most organizations have either already introduced, or plan to introduce, an API testing process. With Dynatrace Synthetic you can easily create API tests with synthetic monitors. MORE
An example of a Data Grid. It is hard to imagine a modern web app that does not involve a data grid component to display and filter the data. MORE
Toby Mao , Sri Sri Perangur , Colin McFarland Another day, another custom script to analyze an A/B test. Maybe you’ve done this before and have an old script lying around. If it’s new, it’s probably going to take some time to set up, right? Not at Netflix. MORE
Dynatrace news. Over the last year we’ve seen more and more Dynatrace customers move from DevOps to NoOps. These organizations have built automation into their DevOps environments to a degree that there is no longer a need for a traditional Ops team to manage software in-house. MORE
Following up my post Are Times still Good for Load Testing? , I decided to answer multiple comments here separately. First, I’d like to elaborate on “It may be less need for simple load testing due to increased scale and sophistication of systems” I meant that the traditional way – testing the system before deploying in production using production-type workload – is not the only way anymore. MORE
Dynatrace news. Dynatrace announces all service-related incidents that occur within our infrastructure on our service status page. To be notified of such incidents automatically, you can subscribe to outage notifications via email. But how can you know when an incident has been resolved? MORE
Alex Podelko
AUGUST 18, 2019
Following up my post Are Times still Good for Load Testing? , I decided to answer multiple comments here separately. First, I’d like to elaborate on “It may be less need for simple load testing due to increased scale and sophistication of systems” I meant that the traditional way – testing the system before deploying in production using production-type workload – is not the only way anymore.
Alex Podelko
JUNE 12, 2019
My post Good Times for Load Testing was published in 2014. It is difficult to believe that 5 years passed… Are times still good for load testing? Well, yes and no. I am not so upbeat as I was in 2014.
Alex Podelko
NOVEMBER 21, 2018
I was honored to write a preface to the great new book Master Apache JMeter. From load testing to DevOps. Here it is: An important event, directly related to this book, happened recently and probably went unnoticed. It appears that Apache JMeter became the most popular load testing tool.
Alex Podelko
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
Guest Post by Wendy Dessler. Source- Pixabay. When trying to develop a new piece of software or an app, one of the first things a developer has to do is pick a programming language. For years, the debate has raged on regarding which programming language is better, Java or Scala.
Alex Podelko
JULY 13, 2018
One software vendor ask me, along with a few other performance professionals, to answer questions related to performance trends. But they changed their mind and never published it – leaving me to contemplate which particular thought they didn’t like… Well, here are their questions and my answers: What do you think is the “next big thing in performance” – or what should we all keep an eye out for in 2018?
Alex Podelko
OCTOBER 28, 2016
I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. I decided to publish a few parts here to see if anything triggers a discussion.
Alex Podelko
OCTOBER 3, 2017
I am very excited by the upcoming CMG imPACt performance and capacity conference. This year it would be held on November 6-9, 2017 in New Orleans, LA. It is only such vendor-neutral, 4-day, 5-track conference devoted completely to performance, capacity, scalability, and adjacent topics. It is organized by CMG (Computer Measurement Group) , a not-for-profit, worldwide organization of performance and capacity planning professionals.
Alex Podelko
AUGUST 15, 2017
An interesting discussion started around a very good post Open Source Load Testing Tool Review by Ragnar Lönn. Somehow the latest comment, which I got in my e-mail, didn’t get published. So I decided to copy the discussion as is and publish the comment (and my answer) here. Check the original post (as well as many other great posts) following the link above – but the discussion below is somewhat independent.
Alex Podelko
OCTOBER 20, 2016
I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. I decided to publish a few parts here to see if anything triggers a discussion. It would be published as separate posts: – Introduction (a short teaser). – Cloud. – Agile. – Continuous Integration. New Architectures (this post). – New Technologies.
Alex Podelko
OCTOBER 18, 2016
I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. I decided to publish a few parts here to see if anything triggers a discussion. It would be published as separate posts: – Introduction (a short teaser). – Cloud. – Agile. Continuous Integration (this post). – New Architectures. – New Technologies.
Alex Podelko
OCTOBER 13, 2016
I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. I decided to publish a few parts here to see if anything triggers a discussion. It would be published as separate posts: – Introduction (a short teaser). – Cloud. Agile (this post). – Continuous Integration. – New Architectures. – New Technologies.
Dynatrace
SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
Dynatrace news. The path to Autonomous Cloud Management (ACM) and NoOps is a transformational journey that reaches all parts of an organization. It fundamentally changes how teams and tools work together with a common goal: deliver software faster, more frequently and with a higher degree of quality.
Dynatrace
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
Dynatrace news. I love data. I have spent virtually my entire career looking at data. Synthetic data, network data, system data, and the list goes on.
Dynatrace
SEPTEMBER 18, 2019
Dynatrace news. Over the last few weeks, the Dynatrace team from across the Asia-Pacific region has been on the road as part of the exhilarating Dynatrace PerformGo! World Tour.
Dynatrace
SEPTEMBER 12, 2019
Dynatrace news. I’m going to revisit the Dynatrace digital transformation in this blog, because it is also an excellent story that began our journey to Autonomous Cloud Management (ACM).
Dynatrace
SEPTEMBER 17, 2019
Dynatrace news. Reporting deltas (i.e, comparing differences) between sets of timeframes or other logical units, is a valuable practice for evaluating business success.
Dynatrace
JULY 11, 2019
Dynatrace news. In my current work, I spend a lot of time with keptn – an Open Source Control Plane for Continuous Deployment and Automated Operations. I deployed keptn on a GKE cluster and it’s been running there for the past couple of weeks.
Dynatrace
SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
Dynatrace news. Dynatrace Davis automatically analyzes abnormal situations within your IT infrastructure and reports all relevant impacts and root causes.
Dynatrace
SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
Dynatrace news. The Dynatrace LATAM team were delighted to host the third successful Partner Summit in Medellín, Colombia for more than 80 partners from 7 different countries. At the Partner Awards dinner, we recognized and celebrated the contribution and success of all our LATAM partners.
Dynatrace
SEPTEMBER 17, 2019
Dynatrace news. Kubernetes (k8s) provides basic monitoring through the Kubernetes API and you can find instructions like Top 9 Open Source Tools for Monitoring Kubernetes as a “do it yourself guide”. For EKS – Amazon’s Kubernetes Service – you can get a preview of CloudWatch Container Insights.
Dynatrace
AUGUST 14, 2019
Dynatrace news. At Dynatrace, we’re constantly striving to come up with solutions that can help modernize your performance and user experience monitoring strategies.
Dynatrace
AUGUST 28, 2019
Dynatrace news. In software, observability refers to telemetry produced by services. Observability is divided into three major verticals—metrics, logs, and distributed traces—the so-called three pillars of observability.
Dynatrace
AUGUST 27, 2019
Dynatrace news. Welcome back to the blog series in which we share how you can easily solve three common problem scenarios by using Dynatrace and xMatters Flow Designer.
Dynatrace
AUGUST 29, 2019
Dynatrace news. It feels like just yesterday DevOps was all the rage, and everything had to be “Cloud” in order to be modern. These days, most organizations have embraced the benefits of DevOps and are running one or more of their applications on somebody else’s computer.
CSS Wizardry
MAY 31, 2019
One of the quickest wins—and one of the first things I recommend my clients do—to make websites faster can at first seem counter-intuitive: you should self-host all of your static assets, forgoing others’ CDNs/infrastructure.
CSS Wizardry
AUGUST 13, 2019
Disclaimers: I was not approached or hired by Hoefler&Co or Cloud.typography to look into any of the following issues. I disclosed all of the below to Cloud.typography and gave them ample opportunity to work together to solve the issues at the root of the problem.
Dynatrace
AUGUST 30, 2019
Dynatrace news. I was fortunate enough to get invited to our PerformGo! APAC Series.
Scalegrid
AUGUST 22, 2019
In our previous blog posts, we discussed the capabilities and functioning of PostgreSQL Automatic Failover (PAF) by Cluster Labs and Replication Manager (repmgr) by 2ndQuadrant. In the final post of this series, we will review the last solution, Patroni by Zalando, and compare all three at the end so you can determine which high availability framework is best for your PostgreSQL hosting deployment. Managing High Availability in PostgreSQL – Part I: PostgreSQL Automatic Failover.
Scalegrid
SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
PostgreSQL graphical user interface (GUI) tools help these open source database users to manage, manipulate, and visualize their data. In this post, we discuss the top 5 GUI tools for administering your PostgreSQL deployments.
Dynatrace
SEPTEMBER 7, 2019
Dynatrace news. In April of this year, we released a long-awaited GA version of the full-stack OneAgent for the IBM AIX operating system. This release enriched our family of full-stack OneAgents with an important contribution.
The Netflix TechBlog
SEPTEMBER 10, 2019
Toby Mao , Sri Sri Perangur , Colin McFarland Another day, another custom script to analyze an A/B test. Maybe you’ve done this before and have an old script lying around. If it’s new, it’s probably going to take some time to set up, right? Not at Netflix.
Dynatrace
SEPTEMBER 12, 2019
Dynatrace news. New features and enhancements. Leverage the power of Davis AI with custom time-series events for your specific use cases (Preview). More flexible SAML configuration. Our default settings work well for most SSO servers that utilize the SAML protocol.
Dynatrace
MAY 15, 2019
Dynatrace news. Dynatrace Dashboards are constantly updated with new capabilities. If you want to get up to speed, check out my recent Performance Clinics: “ AI-Powered Dashboarding ” and “ Advanced Business Dashboarding and Analytics ”.
Dynatrace
MAY 7, 2019
Dynatrace news. Red Hat just announced the availability of their OpenShift 4.0 container platform at the Red Hat Summit in Boston. We worked closely with our friends from Red Hat to provide a seamless experience of our software intelligence platform for the new OpenShift 4.0 release.
Dynatrace
AUGUST 16, 2019
Dynatrace news. As microservices and automation continue to drive API usage, most organizations have either already introduced, or plan to introduce, an API testing process. With Dynatrace Synthetic you can easily create API tests with synthetic monitors.
Dynatrace
AUGUST 20, 2019
Dynatrace news. With the release of Dynatrace 1.175, we’ve improved the content validation capabilities of synthetic browser and clickpath monitors. The contains text content validation option now mimics the Find (Ctrl+F/Cmd+F) functionality of a web browser.
Dynatrace
JUNE 11, 2019
Dynatrace news. Welcome back to the blog series in which we summarize the findings of our Autonomous Cloud Management Survey. In part 1 we examined the Dev-to-Ops ratios that organizations have for their most critical application projects.
Dynatrace
MAY 16, 2019
Dynatrace news. Over the last year we’ve seen more and more Dynatrace customers move from DevOps to NoOps. These organizations have built automation into their DevOps environments to a degree that there is no longer a need for a traditional Ops team to manage software in-house.
Dynatrace
SEPTEMBER 11, 2019
Dynatrace news. Dynatrace announces all service-related incidents that occur within our infrastructure on our service status page. To be notified of such incidents automatically, you can subscribe to outage notifications via email. But how can you know when an incident has been resolved?
DZone
SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
An example of a Data Grid. It is hard to imagine a modern web app that does not involve a data grid component to display and filter the data.
Dynatrace
JUNE 6, 2019
Dynatrace news. Can you believe it’s been two weeks since our annual Perform Summit Barcelona? If you were unable to attend the event, don’t worry, you can catch up on all the action below.
Dynatrace
JULY 22, 2019
Dynatrace news. Use the Artificial Intelligence”, it is not a Jedi Trick. Old School monitoring. I have worked on many accounts where Dynatrace replaced tools such as Nagios and Solarwinds. Basically, what we call “first-generation” monitoring software.
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