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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

RUM, however, has some limitations, including the following: RUM requires traffic to be useful. RUM works best only when people actively visit the application, website, or services. Because RUM relies on user-generated traffic, it’s hard to indicate persistent issues across the board. Watch webinar now!

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A Tutorial on MongoDB Sharding With Best Practices & When To Enable It

Percona

Learn more: View our webinar on How to Scale with MongoDB. High cardinality keys can also reduce the likelihood of data hotspots and improve query performance by evenly distributing query traffic across shards. What is sharding in MongoDB? This helps prevent the creation of jumbo chunks and promotes better load balancing among shards.

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MongoDB Security: Top Security Concerns and Best Practices

Percona

Watch Now : Using Open Source Software to Secure Your MongoDB Database MongoDB Security Features and Best Practices Authentication in MongoDB Most breaches involving MongoDB occur because of a deadly combination of authentication disabled and MongoDB opened to the internet.

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MongoDB Best Practices: Security, Data Modeling, & Schema Design

Percona

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. We’ll also go over some best practices for MongoDB security as well as MongoDB data modeling. For example: $ /opt/mongodb/4.0.6/bin/mongos

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Automated Change Impact Analysis with Site Reliability Guardian

Dynatrace

Given the momentum of DevOps and SRE, digital transformation goals can be achieved when automation enables organizations to apply best practices rapidly and to keep pace with the scale of the organization and applications. Consequently, Service-Level objectives (SLO) are defined to enact countermeasures before the business is impacted.

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What is cloud migration?

Dynatrace

We’ll answer that question and explore cloud migration benefits and best practices for how to go through your migration smoothly. In case of a spike in traffic, you can automatically spin up more resources, often in a matter of seconds. Likewise, you can scale down when your application experiences decreased traffic.

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Architected for resiliency: How Dynatrace withstands data center outages

Dynatrace

This number was so low because the automatic traffic redirect was so fast it kept the impact so low. As a general best practice, Synthetic Tests are great to validate your core use cases are always working as expected. The health-based load balancing of incoming traffic automatically redirects traffic to healthy nodes.

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