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Manage your monitoring as code with Dynatrace’s HashiCorp Terraform integration

Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2021

HashiCorp’s Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as a code software tool that provides a consistent CLI workflow to manage hundreds of cloud services. Per HashiCorp, this codification allows infrastructure changes to be automated while keeping the definition human readable. What is monitoring as code?

Code

Code Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure

‘Security as code’ demands proactive DevSecOps

Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2021

The most forward-thinking teams want to take a “shift-left” approach to their security practices, engaging security practices and testing as early as possible in the software development life cycle. Willie Hicks discussed how Dynatrace Application Security helps organizations adopt a security-as-code approach.

Code

Code DevOps Speed Government

Monitoring-as-code through Dynatrace’s Open-Source Initiative

Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2021

Dynatrace’s OneAgent automatically captures PurePaths and analyzes transactions end-to-end across every tier of your application technology stack with no code changes, from the browser all the way down to the code and database level. Monitoring-as-code requirements at Dynatrace.

Open Source

Open Source Code Monitoring Azure

Microservices: A quick and simple definition

O'Reilly Software

MARCH 1, 2018

Sam Newman provides a succinct definition of microservices in Building Microservices : “Microservices are small, autonomous services that work together.”. Built and released with automated processes. Codebases grow as we write code to add new features. That complexity is often managed with tooling, automation, and process.

Architecture

Architecture Scalability Systems Code

Building High-Quality Software

DZone

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

It’s much better to build your process around quality checks than retrofit these checks into the existent process. NIST did classic research to show that catching bugs at the beginning of the development process could be more than ten times cheaper than if a bug reaches production. There are so many benefits. Important note.

Software

Software Software Code Energy

4 Most Common Myths Around Test Automation

Testsigma

APRIL 4, 2022

A common theme among most software testing organizations is their escalating interest in Test Automation. While test automation has grown in popularity, there are still many myths and biases surrounding it. Such myths can unknowingly create a self-limiting boundary and negatively impact the possibilities of test automation.

Testing

Testing Open Source IoT Programming

Overseeing SaaS security with AWS AppFabric and Dynatrace

Dynatrace

MARCH 27, 2024

Dynatrace integration with AWS AppFabric for security The AWS AppFabric for security feature fully manages the integrations with over 25 applications so customers can get started tracking application security in just a few clicks—no coding required. 16) our company users access the internet from.

AWS

AWS Analytics Government Monitoring

A three-step implementation guide to answer-driven SLO-based release validation

Dynatrace

JULY 16, 2021

This week my colleague Michael Winkler announced the general availability of Cloud Automation quality gates , a new capability that aims to provide answer-driven release validation as part of your delivery process. You run load tests monitored with Dynatrace and you want to automatically validate to eliminate the manual analysis effort.

DevOps

DevOps Open Source Cloud Azure

9 key DevOps metrics for success

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

While DevOps is often referred to as “agile operations,” the widely quoted definition from Jez Humble, co-author of The DevOps Handbook, calls it “a cross-disciplinary community of practice dedicated to the study of building, evolving, and operating rapidly-changing resilient systems at scale.” Deployment frequency.

DevOps

DevOps Metrics Traffic Efficiency

Cloud Automation workshop roadshow: Kick-off

Dynatrace

JULY 30, 2021

With all the technology changes through the past three years, with the world moving to K8s, the rise of GitOps, everything as code, event-driven automation, and many new open standards in the cloud-native space, it was time to update our workshop. Cloud Automation SLIs and SLOs can be changed through your git service and process of choice.

Cloud

Cloud DevOps Azure Virtualization

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

Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

One way to apply improvements is transforming the way application performance engineering and testing is done. This involves new software delivery models, adapting to complex software architectures, and embracing automation for analysis and testing. Here is the definition of this model: ?. Performance-as-a-self-service .

Performance

Performance Education Innovation Software Architecture

How do you decide your approach for mobile website testing?

Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

Mobile-first design should be accompanied with mobile website testing for delivering a flawless web experience to your target audience. Different screen resolutions and viewport sizes add another layer of complexity to mobile website testing. Why should you focus on Mobile Website Testing? Mobile-first indexing.

Website

Website Mobile Testing Strategy

Detecting Speech and Music in Audio Content

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In this blog post, we will introduce speech and music detection as an enabling technology for a variety of audio applications in Film & TV, as well as introduce our speech and music activity detection (SMAD) system which we recently published as a journal article in EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing.

Architecture

Architecture Energy Benchmarking Processing

Insprint Test Automation – Round up

Testsigma

DECEMBER 19, 2020

But, the catch is that most of them are not following a basic guideline – the Definition of Done for a feature should also include testing and automation of the feature. And just that is the reason why we are laying special emphasis on ‘insprint test automation’. In-sprint test automation simplified!

Testing

Testing Strategy Software Software

32 MiB Working Sets on a 64 GiB machine

Randon ASCII

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Memory is a relatively scarce resource on many consumer computers, so a feature to limit how much memory a process uses seems like a good idea, and Microsoft did indeed implement such a feature. KiPageFault is triggered whenever a process touches memory that is not currently in the working set of the process. That is remarkable.

Efficiency

Efficiency Processing Programming Systems

Setting Up MongoDB SSL Encryption

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This approach is particularly useful in testing or development environments. This process begins with an OpenSSL configuration file, a blueprint containing details like your country, state, and organization, capped with the common name that is your server’s alias. Direct net.ssl.PEMKeyFile to the path of your.pem file.

Servers

Servers Best Practices Government Network

Fearing the Wrong Thing

O'Reilly

JULY 11, 2023

I did a very non-scientific study of the amount of time programmers actually spend writing code. OK, I just typed “How much of a software developer’s time is spent coding” into the search bar and looked at the top few articles, which gave percentages ranging from 10% to 40%. How much time and effort does that save?

Programming

Programming Code Design Software

Reinventing Performance Testing: New Technologies

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 28, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. Quite often the whole area of load testing is reduced to pre-production testing using protocol-level recording/playback. – Cloud.

Performance Testing

Performance Testing Technology Technology Testing

What is observability?

Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2020

To summarize the textbook definition, which originates from engineering and control theory, observability is essentially the ability to understand what is happening inside of a system from the knowledge of its external outputs. Logs – Structured or unstructured text that record discreet events that occurred at a specific time.

IoT

IoT Infrastructure Monitoring Innovation

What are SLOs? How service-level objectives work with SLIs to deliver on SLAs

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

And why have SLOs and SLIs become so important as teams automate processes to consistently meet SLAs and error budgets? To get a better handle on this, let’s start with some definitions. Organizations commonly use SLOs in production environments to ensure released code stays within error budgets. But what are SLOs?

Metrics

Metrics Best Practices DevOps Infrastructure

Follower Clusters – 3 Major Use Cases for Syncing SQL & NoSQL Deployments

Scalegrid

JANUARY 20, 2020

This extra cluster, known as a follower cluster, can be leveraged for multiple use cases, including for analyzing, optimizing and testing your application performance for MongoDB , MySQL and PostgreSQL. The ‘follower’ system is writable, so you can use it as a staging environment to test your application changes.

Analytics

Analytics Storage Database Systems

Dynamic SQL Workaround in MySQL: Prepared Statements

Percona

JULY 31, 2023

Understanding prepared statements Prepared statements refer to the ability to construct SQL statements dynamically at runtime rather than writing them statically in the code. Conclusion You might use prepared statements to make dynamic queries, but dynamic queries can definitely make debugging more challenging.

Open Source

Open Source Database Monitoring Development

How To Maintain A Large Next.js Application

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

It can also have tests that are flaky and don’t inspire any confidence. However, there are a few ways in which you can make a large code-base easy to maintain. In certain cases, the build will fail if there are type mismatches in your code as Next.js checks for type definition during build time. applications.

Cache

Cache Code Testing Design

HDMI?—?Scaling Netflix Certification

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

This significantly increases the scope of our application integration and certification processes for streaming devices like set-top-boxes (STBs) and TVs. Why test High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) ? Time spent in manually changing these topologies between and during different tests.

Media

Media Testing Entertainment Virtualization

TensorFlow Library Performance

Brendan Gregg

APRIL 8, 2022

In this case there's an orange tower (kernel code) that's unusual. But this process had been up and running for hours, and shouldn't still be doing so much page fault growth of its RSS. Sometimes processes page fault a lot because they call mmap()/munmap() to add/remove memory. The cause I've highlighted here.

Performance

Performance Virtualization Code Servers

Why test data management is more important than you think

Testsigma

MAY 7, 2020

IBM Big Data and Analytics Hub website cited a case study, where a US insurance company was estimating 15% of their testing efforts to be just test data collection for the backend system and the frontend system. The test data management for the company had become a big problem and had to be solved. What is test data?

Testing

Testing Storage Database Processing

Number series generator challenge solutions – Part 1

SQL Performance

JANUARY 13, 2021

The dbo.GetNumsItzikBatch function uses a dummy join to a table with a columnstore index to get batch processing. Here’s the code to create the dummy table: CREATE TABLE dbo. ORDER BY rownum ; I used the following code to test the function with "Discard results after execution" enabled in SSMS: SELECT n FROM dbo.

C++

C++ Code Testing Processing

ACM Survey, Part 2: How your peers use production monitoring data to innovate faster

Dynatrace

JUNE 11, 2019

Ideally, QA teams use production data for better test definitions (based on real use cases) and better workload modeling for load testing (based on real-world load behavior). Organizations that don’t look at production data may test the wrong things and simulate the wrong performance tests. Automate processes.

Innovation

Innovation Monitoring Metrics Strategy

A testers guide to deal with missed bugs

Testsigma

MARCH 2, 2022

No matter how much you test, a few bugs can still slip through the testing phase & reach production. If you missed testing something, it’s totally fine to admit the oversight and take corrective actions. Exhaustive testing is impossible with limited time, resources and budget. Or during code review?

Education

Education Traffic Strategy Testing

How to automate your web testing on real mobile and desktop browsers

Testsigma

MAY 6, 2021

When we are talking about web testing, we mean web applications and website testing in web browsers. We achieve this by performing web testing on mobile and desktop browser programs. . Why use automated testing tools for testing websites? Definitely yes we can! percent of the global population.

Mobile

Mobile Testing Website Internet

Automation of Mobile Testing – When to do and when not to do

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

That’s not truly testing. The above quote lets us understand the power of Manual Testing. However, we cannot always test our mobile applications manually, there are scenarios which specifically require automated mobile application testing. Variations while performing Mobile Application Testing. Let’s find out.

Mobile

Mobile Testing Games Operating System

How to evaluate modern APM solutions

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

G2 Research includes a clear definition of APM in its Grid Report for Application Performance Monitoring for Spring 2021. These solutions provide performance metrics for applications, with specific insights into the statistics, such as the number of transactions processed by the application or the response time to process such transactions.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Monitoring Infrastructure Cloud

Fundamentals of table expressions, Part 10 – Views, SELECT *, and DDL changes

SQL Performance

JULY 14, 2021

The code that I’ll be using in this article can be executed in any database, but in my demos, I’ll be using TSQLV5—the same sample database that I used in previous articles. Use the following code to create a table called dbo.T1, and a view called dbo.V1 Use the following code to query the view: SELECT * FROM dbo. sql_modules.

Code

Code Database Servers Availability

Manage your monitoring as code with Dynatrace’s HashiCorp Terraform integration

‘Security as code’ demands proactive DevSecOps

Trending Sources

Monitoring-as-code through Dynatrace’s Open-Source Initiative

Microservices: A quick and simple definition

Building High-Quality Software

4 Most Common Myths Around Test Automation

Overseeing SaaS security with AWS AppFabric and Dynatrace

A three-step implementation guide to answer-driven SLO-based release validation

9 key DevOps metrics for success

Cloud Automation workshop roadshow: Kick-off

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

How do you decide your approach for mobile website testing?

Detecting Speech and Music in Audio Content

Insprint Test Automation – Round up

32 MiB Working Sets on a 64 GiB machine

Setting Up MongoDB SSL Encryption

Fearing the Wrong Thing

Reinventing Performance Testing: New Technologies

What is observability?

What are SLOs? How service-level objectives work with SLIs to deliver on SLAs

Follower Clusters – 3 Major Use Cases for Syncing SQL & NoSQL Deployments

Dynamic SQL Workaround in MySQL: Prepared Statements

How To Maintain A Large Next.js Application

HDMI?—?Scaling Netflix Certification

TensorFlow Library Performance

Why test data management is more important than you think

Number series generator challenge solutions – Part 1

ACM Survey, Part 2: How your peers use production monitoring data to innovate faster

A testers guide to deal with missed bugs

How to automate your web testing on real mobile and desktop browsers

Automation of Mobile Testing – When to do and when not to do

How to evaluate modern APM solutions

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