Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2022

Key takeaways from this article on modern observability for serverless architecture: As digital transformation accelerates, organizations need to innovate faster and continually deliver value to customers. The myriad interdependencies of modern cloud applications make refactoring a complex monolithic application challenging.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This article was co-authored by Eduardo da Silva and Nick Tune based on our individual and collective experiences. FThis article describes a pattern we have observed and applied in multi-team-scope architecture modernization initiatives, the Architecture Modernization Enabling Team (AMET).

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

First, it helps to understand that applications and all the services and infrastructure that support them generate telemetry data based on traffic from real users. For more information about defining critical paths, see the article Understanding your application’s critical path. Best practices for implementing service-level objectives.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 6, 2021

In my last blog article, I answered the question “What is OpenTelemetry?” , with the goal of providing a high-level overview of the OpenTelemetry project and answer some of the most commonly asked questions. The post How OpenTelemetry can improve Observability and Monitoring appeared first on Dynatrace blog.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

We were designing and building things, setting up new products, refactoring the components, and publishing articles. The entire site is built with progressive enhancement in mind, meaning that you, dear reader, can read every Smashing article in its entirety without the need to boot the application at all. We had to fix that.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

When software runs in a monolithic stack on on-site servers, observability is manageable enough. But before we do that, let’s quickly go over a primer on what observability and OpenTelemetry are in the first place. What is observability? Those are prime candidates for their own spans. Register now!

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Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

When I first started work ing at Dynatrace, nine years ago, our customers were using our solution to get deep end-to-end visibility into environments we would now refer to be mostly monolithic. In our next upcoming article, we’ll look at the concepts behind the architecture of a Kubernetes platform. .

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Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

When I first started work ing at Dynatrace, nine years ago, our customers were using our solution to get deep end-to-end visibility into environments we would now refer to be mostly monolithic. In our next upcoming article, we’ll look at the concepts behind the architecture of a Kubernetes platform. .

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Alex Russell

DECEMBER 4, 2020

In applications that might otherwise be tempted to adopt large piles of JS to manage viewports, it can be the difference between SPA monoliths and small progressive enhancements to HTML. To combat this effect, I've added some CSS to this site that optimistically renders the first article on a page but defers others. if ( entry.

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Particular Software

OCTOBER 3, 2017

This article was originally published on the NDC 2016 Blog. What was relevant when you first started may no longer be relevant when you finish. Step 1: Add Visibility to Your Monolith Instrumenting your monolith with events can help for a variety of reasons. First and foremost, it adds visibility inside your monolith.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

The latest chapter in the story of how we reached this major milestone took place in May, 2018 when in an article explaining new and upcoming changes to OneAgent , we announced the Early Adopter program for a new operation mode for OneAgent for Linux that allows OneAgent to be run in non-admin mode (i.e., “non-privileged mode”).

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In one of our previous articles , we discussed what an SRE is, what they do, and some of the common responsibilities that a typical SRE may have, like supporting operations, dealing with trouble tickets and incident response, and general system monitoring and observability. Embracing risk is first of the SRE principles, and for good reason.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Fight For The Main Thread The Fight For The Main Thread Geoff Graham 2023-10-24T18:00:00+00:00 2023-10-24T22:02:26+00:00 This article is sponsored by SpeedCurve Performance work is one of those things, as they say, that ought to happen in development. SpeedCurve can go even deeper by distinguishing between first- and third-party scripts.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Perhaps these two points are worth mentioning first of all. At first glance, they all look like well-brushed-up mobile versions of sites. Because the focus is put on mobile-first, customers become happier with their browsing experience, increasing the store’s conversions. Below are some main things to consider. But who cares?

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Strategic Tech

JULY 21, 2020

Start by adding all of your IT services (microservices, monoliths, frontends, etc) and classifying them according to their strategic priority. Core Domain Chart showing current-state IT portfolio All of the visualisations in this article were created with Miro. You can do either first. Show your investment in each service (e.g.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Typically, front-end migration, which is the main subject of this article, does not allow even that: “cheap” is out of reach for any migration , and you have to pick either “good” or “fast.” Frankenstein Migration, however, is an independent, structured approach to migration in the first place. However, you cannot have both.

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Particular Software

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

At runtime, all the behaviors will be compiled down into a single method using compiled expression trees so it executes just as fast as if someone had taken the time to hand-craft a single, monolithic RunPipeline() method.

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O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

In this article, we will discuss the need for—and how to achieve—modernization in the field of enterprise integration. First of all, when we, programmers, write a method or a function, we do not specify where the input parameters come from, or where the output return value goes to. Streaming as a first-class concept.

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Highly Scalable

AUGUST 14, 2012

In this article I describe a technique we used to speed up a Pig build from 9 hours to 1 hour 30 minutes using 6 Jenkins nodes. Although there are different ways to alleviate this problem (divide tests into suites, optimize tests by tweaking timeouts and sleeps, etc.), java'): test_name = re.search(r" *(Test.*).java",

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

DOM complete, time to first byte, first input delay, client CPU and memory usage. To get accurate results and goals though, make sure to first get a thorough picture of your users' experience by studying your analytics. LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl. Get a free trial of LogRocket today.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

This article was co-authored with Eduardo da Silva (also published on his blog ). In this article, we address one of the most important and difficult challenges we see organizations we work with facing when introducing an AMET — forming the team and setting it up for success. They are targeting 3–5x revenue growth in the next 5 years.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

In this article, we’ll be putting all the theory to the test by performing step-by-step migration of an application, following the recommendations from the previous part. For this article, as a starting point, I picked a jQuery application from the TodoMVC project — an example that may already be familiar to a lot of you.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

To get accurate results and goals though, make sure to first get a thorough picture of your users' experience by studying your analytics. The difference between First Paint, First Contentful Paint, First Meaningful Paint, Visual Complete and Time To Interactive. Large view. Credit: @denar90. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

To get accurate results and goals though, first study your analytics to see what your users are on. The difference between First Paint, First Contentful Paint, First Meaningful Paint, Visual Complete and Time To Interactive. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Large view. Credit: @denar90.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

The initial WordPress architecture is monolithic , so the user interface and data access are combined on the same platform. Monolithic, Regular CMS architecture ( Large preview ). A curated list of articles related to “Headless” → But Why Migrate To A Headless CMS? Monolithic vs Headless. Monolithic.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

In the event of an isolated failure we first pre-scale microservices in the healthy regions after which we can shift traffic away from the failing one. In 2013 we first developed our multi-regional availability strategy in response to a catalyst that led us to re-architect the way our service operates.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

A Cosmos service This article will explain why we built Cosmos, how it works and share some of the things we have learned along the way. The first generation of this system went live with the streaming launch in 2007. The first-order goals were to preserve our current capabilities while offering: Observability?—?via Modularity?

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

In this article, I will highlight a few core features that every headless CMS should provide. Monolithic vs Microservices. When it comes to a Traditional CMS, the CMS and the resulting front-end website are built on a monolithic architecture. Monolithic architecture takes a back seat with headless CMSes.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

The world’s first website was made from static HTML files created in a text editor. Yet, for all these technological developments, it’s interesting that many of us are still serving sites in the same way Tim did with the very first website — a web server serving static website files. Mike Neumegen. 2021-08-20T08:00:00+00:00.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In this article, I’m not going to sell you fortune telling but I am going to show an example of how understanding the type of domain you’re working in can greatly increase your chances of anticipating future changes and being able to accommodate them for the least amount of effort or compromise.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 27, 2019

In this article, we will look at coupling which arises due to needs of consumers (services that depend on others or ‘consume’ them) and the teams that build them. At first it may seem harmless, even beneficial, enabling the three frontend teams to get new features out the door without being blocked by the API teams.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 2, 2018

His articles, his talks, and his sublime visualisations have been referenced thousands of times. We’re all familiar with the most common reason: multiple teams all having to work within monolithic, Big Ball of Mud, legacy systems. Alignment Efficiency is inspired by aerodynamic efficiency. Aligned Autonomy ?—?which

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