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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

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Real user monitoring (RUM) is a performance monitoring process that collects detailed data about users’ interactions with an application. RUM gathers information on a variety of performance metrics. The ability to identify application performance issues and potential issues by running interval tests.

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What is continuous delivery and what are best practices for implementing it?

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In this article, I take a deeper look into continuous delivery (CD), and describe how this phase of the process is the key to achieving greater efficiency in your software development life cycle. Where continuous delivery fits into the development process. This process of frequent check-ins is called continuous integration (CI).

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Automate CI/CD pipelines with Dynatrace: Part 3, Testing stage

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In the last blog post of this series, we delved into how Dynatrace, functioning as a deploy-stage orchestrator, solves the challenges confronted by Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) during the early of automating CI/CD processes. This slow feedback and time spent rerunning tests can hinder the overall software deployment process.

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Performance Testing - Tools, Steps, and Best Practices

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Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. What is Performance Testing? In the context of web development, performance testing entails using software tools to simulate how an application runs under specific circumstances.

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What is synthetic testing?

Dynatrace

Here’s a look at why this testing matters, how it works, and what companies need to get the most from this approach. What is synthetic testing? Synthetic testing is an IT process that uses software to discover and diagnose performance issues with user journeys by simulating real-user activity.

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How Dynatrace boosts production resilience with Site Reliability Guardian

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To ensure high standards, it’s essential that your organization establish automated validations in an early phase of the software development process—ideally when code is written. Validation tasks are then extended left to cover performance testing and release validation in a pre-production environment.

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Up your quality and agility factor – using automation to build “performance-as-a-self-service”

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PayPal, a popular online payment systems organization, implemented a full performance as a self-service model for developers to get their code performance tests. Read more details about PayPal in this blog who is an early practitioner for performance as a self-service. #2 2 New roles and responsibilities at Panera Bread