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Shift right in software development: Adapting observability for a seamless development experience

Dynatrace

In all seriousness, the shift-left mantra has shaken things up quite a bit in the tech industry, bringing a paradigm shift in how we approach software development. Today, engineers are spending an increasing amount of time developing and testing code in production-like environments.

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The road to observability with OpenTelemetry demo part 1: Identifying metrics and traces

Dynatrace

Anyone who’s concerned with developing, delivering, and operating software knows the importance of making software and the systems it runs on observable. While classic logging is an essential tool in debugging issues, it often lacks context and only provides snapshot information of one specific location in your code/application.

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The road to observability with OpenTelemetry demo part 2: OpenTelemetry configuration and instrumenting applications

Dynatrace

OpenTelemetry , the open source observability tool, has become the go-to standard for instrumenting custom applications to help software developers and operations teams understand what their software is doing and where it’s running into snags. We also introduced our demo app and explained how to define the metrics and traces it uses.

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An Unbelievable Demo

Brendan Gregg

This is the story of the most unbelievable demo I've been given in world of open source. I didn't recognize the name, but was told that he was a DTrace expert and developer at Sun, and was on a world tour demonstrating Sun's new DTrace-based product. He was kind enough to give me a quick demo anyway. They were useful, but.I

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Code-level observability for Flutter apps drives great user experience

Dynatrace

Flutter offers a mobile development model that allows you to do just that. Today, the production apps of many big companies use Flutter, which has a steadily growing community of developers. ” As a developer, you might want to quickly find and analyze errors and crashes to make sure they don’t recur.

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An Unbelievable Demo

Brendan Gregg

This is the story of the most unbelievable demo I've been given in world of open source. I didn't recognize the name, but was told that he was a DTrace expert and developer at Sun, and was on a world tour demonstrating Sun's new DTrace-based product. He was kind enough to give me a quick demo anyway. They were useful, but.I

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AVIF for Next-Generation Image Coding

The Netflix TechBlog

Brief overview of image coding formats The JPEG format was introduced in 1992 and is widely popular. This is followed by quantization and entropy coding. With the motion extension, it was accepted as the video coding standard for digital cinema in 2004. Webp is based on intra-frame coding from the VP8 video coding format.

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