Dynatrace

JUNE 20, 2023

AutomationEngine provides a low-code/no-code approach to model workflows for targeted notification and collaboration, closed-loop remediation, quality/security gating, and more. AutomationEngine workflow example for a bespoke ordering system. Examples of each of these custom extension types are detailed below.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Application observability helps IT teams gain visibility in their highly distributed systems, but what is developer observability and why is it important? The scale and the highly distributed systems result in enormous amounts of data. They also care about infrastructure: SREs require system visibility and incident management.

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Testlodge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

For example, it’s usual for software to have been designed with a specific use in mind, but the user doesn’t always understand the same way as the developers and testers. ” Destructive testing is a method that uses the system in a way other than intended to make the software program deliberately fail.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a set of best practices and guidelines that help you design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud. For example, optimizing resource utilization for greater scale and lower cost and driving insights to increase adoption of cloud-native serverless services.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Organizations can customize quality gate criteria to validate technical service-level objectives (SLOs) and business goals, ensuring early detection and resolution of code deficiencies. Ultimately, quality gates safeguard code viability as it advances through the delivery pipeline. But how do they function in practice?

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

That’s why many organizations are turning to generative AI—which uses its training data to create text, images, code, or other types of content that reflect its users’ natural language queries—and platform engineering to create new efficiencies and opportunities for innovation. No one will be around who fully understands the code.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Evaluating these on three levels—data center, host, and application architecture (plus code)—is helpful. You might optimize your cooling system or move your data center to a colder region with reduced cooling demands. From here, it’s time to consider the next level of energy optimization, green coding.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 20, 2024

Infrastructure health The underlying infrastructure’s health directly impacts application availability and performance. Changes in application code or configurations can impact performance metrics, affecting user experience and application functionality.

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Dynatrace

MAY 24, 2023

Dynatrace is proud to provide deep monitoring support for Azure Linux as a container host operating system (OS) platform for Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) to enable customers to operate efficiently and innovate faster. Today, it’s a generally available container host for AKS and AKS-HCI. What is Azure Linux?

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Anyone who’s concerned with developing, delivering, and operating software knows the importance of making software and the systems it runs on observable. While classic logging is an essential tool in debugging issues, it often lacks context and only provides snapshot information of one specific location in your code/application.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

It offers all the functionality we need to deploy our application in production, with a hybrid system with static pages and server-side rendered (SSR) pages. Environment variables are used in the browser code, not just server code. Code splitting: loads chunk corresponding to the page path. SSR Benefits (Next.js).

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Testsigma

JUNE 3, 2021

Example: An e-commerce website is unable to process the payment part. On-screen information for users: The information which is required by the user should be available on the application screen itself. He may think that the software got stuck and a system restart is needed. The UI is meant to be intuitive and easy for the user.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

GPT (generative pre-trained transformer) technology and the LLM-based AI systems that drive it have huge implications and potential advantages for many tasks, from improving customer service to increasing employee productivity. This is one example of the many use cases we’re exploring.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 12, 2018

A great example of this is the way we are using ML to deal with one of the world's biggest and most tangled datasets: human speech. The interfaces to our digital system have been dictated by the capabilities of our computer systems—keyboards, mice, graphical interfaces, remotes, and touch screens.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

From generating new code and boosting developer productivity to finding the root cause of performance issues with ease, the benefits of AI are numerous. Armed with this data, the developer can then change the query to ask for the statements over a period (for example, the previous week). Generated code becomes less maintainable.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2024

For example, Amazon Web Services (AWS) charges for data transfer between Amazon EC2 instances within the same region. Flexible pricing models that offer discounts based on commitment or availability can greatly reduce cloud waste. This includes spot instances such as unused cloud capacity that’s available at a discounted price.

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

Keeping pace with modern digital transformation requires ensuring that applications are responsive, resilient, and always available amid increased complexity. Uptime Institute’s 2022 Outage Analysis report found that over 60% of system outages resulted in at least $100,000 in total losses, up from 39% in 2019. availability.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

As we look at today’s applications, microservices, and DevOps teams, we see leaders are tasked with supporting complex distributed applications using new technologies spread across systems in multiple locations. Let’s dive into how these metrics and DevOps KPIs can help your team perform better and deliver better code.

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Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

They enable product delivery and SRE teams to turn functionality on and off at runtime without deploying new code. This decoupling of code deployment from feature release is a crucial enabler for modern Continuous Delivery practices. This is just one example; applications of any size or maturity can use OpenFeature.

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Dynatrace

MAY 30, 2023

Just copy and paste your code, make changes to the “green” version, and deploy “green” alongside “blue.” There are problems with this manual approach, though, for example, the following: Manual changes make the tech stack is made more complex: You also have to manually update routing rules and other changes.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2021

Part 1 of this series starts will cover the key ingredients needed for successful DevOps use to deliver better software faster, followed by a short overview of GitHub Actions and example use cases related to deployment and release monitoring. Example #1 – Deploy application code to Kubernetes.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

OpenTelemetry configuration: Setting up OpenTelemetry in our application In part 1 of our series, we introduced the demo application: A web app that performs a distributed host/URL availability check and is made up of two parts: a PHP frontend a JavaScript agent running on Node.js php declare(strict_types=1); require __DIR__.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Creating A Magento PWA: Customizing Themes vs. Coding From Scratch. Creating A Magento PWA: Customizing Themes vs. Coding From Scratch. One of the reasons for that is because a PWA has the same code base. So unlike the case with native applications, the progressive web app needs to be coded only once. Alex Husar.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

Program staff depend on the reliable functioning of critical program systems and infrastructure to provide the best service delivery to the communities and citizens HHS serves, from newborn infants to persons requiring health services to our oldest citizens. Both can result in lost productivity for IT teams and staff in the field.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 14, 2022

To further enrich log data for automated observability, it’s necessary to dynamically tie logs to distributed traces on the code level, user sessions in the app front-end, and the topology of your IT landscape. If a more granular rule is present on the host level, that rule will precede any blanket rule on, for example, the tenant level.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 14, 2022

With a critical CVSS rating of 9.8 , Spring4Shell leaves affected systems vulnerable to remote code execution (RCE). In the example below, we have a simple DemoObject class that contains a string attribute message. The Spring Framework exposes the class member of the object the parameter is bound to, for example: [link].

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

There are two different approaches to GraphQL development; schema-first and code-first development. The code in your service only implements this schema. With code-first development , you don’t have a schema file. Instead, the schema gets generated at runtime based on definitions in code. Let’s start with a simple schema.

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 28, 2019

The testing phase starts with unit testing followed by integration testing, system testing, system integration testing, acceptance testing, and regression testing. The objective of regression testing is to check that the new code changes do not negatively impact the existing developed and tested functionalities of the application.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The vulnerability enables an attacker to gain control over a string and trick the application into requesting and executing malicious code under the attacker’s control. The amount of recordable data is broad, and ranges from basic user browser and web page information to detailed technical information about the system Log4j 2 is running on.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2023

The CSI pod is mounted to application pods using an overlay file system. The CSI pod offers a prepared file system, mounted automatically, and includes unzipped agent binaries to every application pod. kubectl label namespaces [your-namespace] monitoring=Dynatrace Note: GKE Autopilot support is available as of Dynatrace Operator 0.12

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Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2018

In summary: - Beginner: run [bcc] tools - Intermediate: develop [bpftrace] tools - Advanced: develop [bcc] tools, contribute to bcc & bpftrace Update: I have a new book about eBPF tracing, published by Addison Wesley: [BPF Performance Tools: Linux System and Application Observability]. People will use it and code in it via frameworks.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Vulnerability assessment is the process of identifying, quantifying, and prioritizing the cybersecurity vulnerabilities in a given IT system. The goal of an assessment is to locate weaknesses that can be exploited to compromise systems. NMAP is an example of a well-known open-source network scanner. Identify vulnerabilities.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 9, 2022

The system saw up to 800 application requests per second – far more than anticipated. More worrisome was a spike in CPU usage, resulting in severe service disruption as backend processing systems crashed due to the spike in load. Therefore, it was unsurprising to see a huge spike in traffic for Family Visa enrollment via Metrash.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

In this example, “Reverse proxy” and “Front-end server” are clearly in the critical path. In this example, “hipstershop.currency,” “hipstershop.checkout” and “hipstershop.cart” are also part of this critical path. In this example, we’re creating an SLO with a target of 98% of our requests without errors. Availability.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2023

SLOs are pivotal for development, DevOps, and SRE teams because they provide a common language for discussing system reliability. When the error budget burn rate is too high, the system sends out alerts, helping teams to proactively address the issue before the SLO is violated (for example, you run out of gas).

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Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2023

For example, ensuring software stacks don’t use default accounts or passwords, error handling doesn’t reveal sensitive information, and application server frameworks use secure settings. To avoid these problems, set up automated DevSecOps release validation and security gates so that no insecure code progresses to production.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Part one also provided an overview of Dynatrace’s Cloud Automation solution, Microsoft’s GitHub Actions , and open-source examples you can use and extend related to deployment and release monitoring. Example #3 – Automate Monitoring configuration as code. Monitoring as Code workflow example. Blog series use cases.

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