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Common SLO pitfalls and how to avoid them

Dynatrace

This demand creates an increasing need for DevOps teams to maintain the performance and reliability of critical business applications. As such, it’s important when creating your SLOs to avoid these common mistakes that can cause more headaches for your DevOps teams. Let’s take service availability for example.

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What are quality gates? How to use quality gates to deliver better software at speed and scale

Dynatrace

Benefits of quality gates Quality gates provide several advantages to organizations, including the following: Optimized software performance : Quality gates assess code at different SDLC stages and ensure that only high-quality code progresses. This approach supports innovation, ambitious SLOs, DevOps scalability, and competitiveness.

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Performance Testing at MongoDB

Alex Podelko

34 (2020), Performance Testing with David Daly , is another good introduction. These two papers provide many more insights: Automated system performance testing at MongoDB , DBTest 2020 [ Video ]. The Use of Change Point Detection to Identify Software Performance Regressions in a Continuous Integration System , ICPE 2020 [ Video ].

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What is chaos engineering?

Dynatrace

Practitioners subject software to a controlled, simulated crisis to test for unstable behavior. The crisis could be technical, natural, or malicious events, for example an earthquake affecting data center availability, or a cyberattack infecting applications and websites. Watch webinar now! Who uses chaos engineering?

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Automate CI/CD pipelines with Dynatrace: Part 2, Deploy stage

Dynatrace

Even when the staging environment closely mirrors the production environment, achieving a complete replication of all potential scenarios, such as simulating extremely high traffic volumes to assess software performance, remains challenging. This can lead to a lack of insight into how the code will behave when exposed to heavy traffic.

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Service level objectives: 5 SLOs to get started

Dynatrace

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, ensuring high-quality software is crucial for organizations to thrive. Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. Availability is typically expressed in 9’s, such as 99.9%.

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Service level objective examples: 5 SLO examples for faster, more reliable apps

Dynatrace

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, ensuring high-quality software is crucial for organizations to thrive. Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. Availability is typically expressed in 9’s, such as 99.9%.

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