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Black Friday traffic exposes gaps in observability strategies

Dynatrace

What’s the problem with Black Friday traffic? But that’s difficult when Black Friday traffic brings overwhelming and unpredictable peak loads to retailer websites and exposes the weakest points in a company’s infrastructure, threatening application performance and user experience. Why Black Friday traffic threatens customer experience.

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What is infrastructure as code? Discover the basics, benefits, and best practices

Dynatrace

“As code” means simplifying complex and time-consuming tasks by automating some, or all, of their processes. Here, we’ll tackle the basics, benefits, and best practices of IAC, as well as choosing infrastructure-as-code tools for your organization. Exploring IAC best practices. Test, test, test.

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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

These development and testing practices ensure the performance of critical applications and resources to deliver loyalty-building user experiences. Real user monitoring (RUM) is a performance monitoring process that collects detailed data about users’ interactions with an application. What is real user monitoring?

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What is synthetic testing?

Dynatrace

Synthetic testing simulates real-user behaviors within an application or service to pinpoint potential problems. 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? RUM, meanwhile, requires actual users.

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

Dynatrace

This step is crucial as this environment is used for the final validation and testing phase before the code is released into production. This can lead to a lack of insight into how the code will behave when exposed to heavy traffic. Furthermore, augmenting test coverage to mirror the scenarios encountered in production is imperative.

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Ensuring the Successful Launch of Ads on Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

To do this, we devised a novel way to simulate the projected traffic weeks ahead of launch by building upon the traffic migration framework described here. New content or national events may drive brief spikes, but, by and large, traffic is usually smoothly increasing or decreasing.

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Multi-CDN Strategy: Benefits and Best Practices

IO River

Multi-CDN is the practice of employing a number of CDN providers simultaneously. implement a M-CDN, organizations can use traffic management tools or Multi-CDN switching solutions that distribute and route content across the various CDN providers. Even minor misconfigurations can lead to disruptive traffic interruptions.