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What is DevOps? Gene Kim offers an expert view and explains how to maximize success

Dynatrace

Who better to offer some clarity than Gene Kim , former founder and CTO of Tripwire and DevOps enthusiast, who has written multiple books on the subject, including The DevOps Handbook and The Phoenix Project ? Kim joined us at Perform 2021, where he offered his own unique take and insight into DevOps from a career spanning 22 years.

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Lessons learned from enterprise service-level objective management

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Example 1: Architecture boundaries. First, they took a big step back and looked at their end-to-end architecture (Figure 2). SLO dashboard defined by architectural boundary. My web requests are all HTTP 2XX success, so why are my users getting errors? The dashboards are green, so why are users complaining? So, what did they do?

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Site reliability done right: 5 SRE best practices that deliver on business objectives

Dynatrace

Microservices-based architectures and software containers enable organizations to deploy and modify applications with unprecedented speed. Maintaining reliable uptime and consistent service quality has become more complex as organizations expand their computing footprints across multiple data centers and in the cloud.

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Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, 2nd Edition

Brendan Gregg

Sysperf provides balanced coverage of models, theory, architecture, observability tools (traditional and tracing), experimental tools, and tuning. The BPF tools book focuses on BPF tracing tools only, with brief summaries of architecture and traditional tools. Which book should you buy?

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Perform 2023 Guide: Organizations mine efficiencies with automation, causal AI

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Data lakehouse architecture stores data insights in context — handbook Organizations need a data architecture that can cost-efficiently store data and enable IT pros to access it in real time and with proper context. However, turning those logs into meaningful insights requires a data lakehouse.

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Implementing service-level objectives to improve software quality

Dynatrace

As more organizations embrace microservices-based architecture to deliver goods and services digitally, maintaining customer satisfaction has become exponentially more challenging. Implementing service-level objectives (SLOs) has become a vital method for meeting service-level agreements that ensure great user experiences. Reliability.

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Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, 2nd Edition

Brendan Gregg

Sysperf provides balanced coverage of models, theory, architecture, observability tools (traditional and tracing), experimental tools, and tuning. The BPF tools book focuses on BPF tracing tools only, with brief summaries of architecture and traditional tools. Which book should you buy?

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