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Why software supply chain attacks are increasing

Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

Software supply chain attacks emerge in full force. But today, software supply chain attacks are a key factor in the global movement of goods. Additionally, a global study of 1,000 CIOs indicated that 82% say their organizations are vulnerable to cyberattacks targeting software supply chains. Dynatrace news.

Software

Software Software Open Source DevOps

Handling Flaky Unit Tests in Java

Uber Engineering

JUNE 15, 2021

Unit testing forms the bedrock of any Continuous Integration (CI) system. It warns software engineers of bugs in newly-implemented code and regressions in existing code, before it is merged. This ensures increased software reliability.

Java

Java Testing Software Engineering Engineering

Why the supposedly fixed CVE-2020-36641 vulnerability is still exploitable—And what to do about it

Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

In May 2023 the critical vulnerability CVE-2020-36641 in the Java library aXMLRPC was published in the National Vulnerability Database (NVD). To what extent attacks are possible depends on the Java version and other environmental factors. xml version="1.0"?> > <!DOCTYPE DOCTYPE foo [<!ENTITY

Java

Java Servers Code Software

RSA guide 2024: AI and security are top concerns for organizations in every industry

Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2024

As organizations train generative AI systems with critical data, they must be aware of the security and compliance risks. blog Generative AI is an artificial intelligence model that can generate new content—text, images, audio, code—based on existing data. Check out the resources below for more information. What is generative AI?

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Best Practices DevOps

Understanding, detecting and localizing partial failures in large system software

The Morning Paper

MARCH 15, 2020

Understanding, detecting and localizing partial failures in large system software , Lou et al., Partial failures ( gray failures ) occur when some but not all of the functionalities of a system are broken. Overall, our study reveals that partial failure is a common and severe problem in large software systems.

Systems

Systems Software Software Programming

Protect your organization against zero-day vulnerabilities

Dynatrace

AUGUST 3, 2022

Malicious attackers have gotten increasingly better at identifying vulnerabilities and launching zero-day attacks to exploit these weak points in IT systems. A zero-day exploit is a technique an attacker uses to take advantage of an organization’s vulnerability and gain access to its systems.

Java

Java Traffic Benchmarking Strategy

Application observability meets developer observability: Unlock a 360º view of your environment

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Application observability helps IT teams gain visibility in their highly distributed systems, but what is developer observability and why is it important? In a recent webinar , Dynatrace DevOps activist Andi Grabner and senior software engineer Yarden Laifenfeld explored developer observability. Observability is about answering.”

Development

Development DevOps Programming Cloud

InfoSec 2022 guide: How DevSecOps practices drive organizational resilience

Dynatrace

JUNE 13, 2022

They can develop software applications rapidly and gain access to extensible cloud resources without having to sink costs into IT plumbing or managing this infrastructure themselves. Open source code, for example, has generated new threat vectors for attackers to exploit. Dynatrace news.

Open Source

Open Source DevOps Java Innovation

What is Log4Shell? The Log4Shell vulnerability explained (and what to do about it)

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Since December 10, days after a critical vulnerability known as Log4Shell was discovered in servers supporting the game Minecraft, millions of exploit attempts have been made of the Log4j 2 Java library, according to one team tracking the impact, with potential threat to millions more applications and devices across the globe.

Internet

Internet Internet Games Java

Handling flaky unit tests in Java

Uber Engineering

JUNE 15, 2021

Unit testing forms the bedrock of any Continuous Integration (CI) system. It warns software engineers of bugs in newly-implemented code and regressions in existing code, before it is merged. This ensures increased software reliability.

Java

Java Testing Software Engineering Engineering

Black Hat 2023: Pairing causal AI and generative AI for cybersecurity threats

Dynatrace

AUGUST 7, 2023

Developers use generative AI to find errors in code and automatically document their code. They can also use generative AI for cybersecurity, write prototype code, and implement complex software systems. But managing the breadth of the vulnerabilities that can put your systems at risk is challenging.

DevOps

DevOps Analytics Best Practices Java

What is vulnerability management? And why runtime vulnerability detection makes the difference

Dynatrace

AUGUST 18, 2022

But managing the breadth of the vulnerabilities that can put your systems at risk is challenging. According to the 2022 CISO Research Report , only 25% of respondents’ security teams “can access a fully accurate, continuously updated report of every application and code library running in production in real-time.”

Traffic

Traffic Java Network DevOps

Dynatrace with industry consortium submits OpenFeature standard as CNCF sandbox project

Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

Feature flags are an essential tool in the modern software delivery lifecycle for cloud-native applications. They enable product delivery and SRE teams to turn functionality on and off at runtime without deploying new code. Proprietary SDKs create adoption challenges. SDKs are lightweight, developer friendly, and flexible.

Java

Java Cloud Code Technology

Why vulnerability management enhances your cloud application security strategy

Dynatrace

JANUARY 21, 2022

Modern software development requires DevSecOps approaches that shift right into production in addition to shift-left efforts in development. As organizations increasingly rely on cloud-based applications and open-source software to quicken the pace of innovation, teams face an even greater challenge to release apps fast and securely.

Strategy

Strategy Cloud Open Source DevOps

Advance DevSecOps practices with a vulnerability management strategy

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Consider the Log4Shell vulnerability , which emerged in December 2021 and is estimated to have affected hundreds of millions of systems worldwide. The vulnerability is located in Log4j 2, an open-source Apache Java software used to run logging services in a host of front-end and backend applications. For our complete?

Strategy

Strategy Games DevOps Open Source

Mitigating security vulnerabilities moves front and center in modern observability strategies

Dynatrace

MARCH 1, 2023

Security vulnerabilities can easily creep into IT systems and create costly risks. As a result, organizations are adopting cloud observability technologies to gain visibility into their IT environments and the associated application performance and software vulnerability issues.

Strategy

Strategy Cloud Software Software

Black Hat 2022 highlights zero-day attacks as key theme

Dynatrace

AUGUST 2, 2022

Malicious attackers have gotten increasingly adept at identifying vulnerabilities and launching attacks to exploit these weak points in IT systems. But they also need a better strategy to address these attacks if they have IT systems and live applications that are already compromised. DevSecOps: Integrating security into DevOps.

DevOps

DevOps Strategy Open Source Java

RSA Guide 2023: Cloud application security remains core challenge for organizations

Dynatrace

APRIL 11, 2023

Log4Shell required many organizations to take devices and applications offline to prevent malicious attackers from gaining access to IT systems and sensitive data. As a result, organizations need to be vigilant in identifying and addressing vulnerabilities to protect their systems and data.

Cloud

Cloud DevOps Open Source Retail

RSA 2022 guide: DevSecOps transformation with runtime vulnerability management

Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2022

Because data is more distributed and teams collaborate globally with cloud-based applications, IT teams struggle to keep up with the vulnerabilities that threaten these systems. Instead, they need to enlist software intelligence to monitor their systems end to end to identify and prioritize remediation efforts.

Strategy

Strategy Innovation Cloud Serverless

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Triplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. Shape the future of software in your industry. Receive occasional invitations to chat with for 30 minutes about your area of expertise and software usage. Who's Hiring? Apply here.

Software

Software Software Analytics Infrastructure

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High Scalability

MARCH 19, 2019

Triplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. Shape the future of software in your industry. Receive occasional invitations to chat with for 30 minutes about your area of expertise and software usage. Who's Hiring? Apply here.

Software

Software Software Analytics Infrastructure

Log4Shell highlights need for secure digital transformation with observability, vulnerability management

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

It left the applications, systems, and IT infrastructure of millions of organizations open to widespread exploitation. This zero-day vulnerability enables a remote attacker to take control of a device or Internet-based application if the device or app runs certain versions of Log4j 2, a popular Java library.

Healthcare

Healthcare Transportation Innovation Games

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Triplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. Shape the future of software in your industry. Shape the future of software in your industry. Client libraries are available for Node, Ruby, Python, PHP, Go, Java and.NET.

Software

Software Software Infrastructure Metrics

Dynatrace Application Security boosts BizDevSecOps for Kubernetes

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Dynatrace Application Security enables you to detect and assess software vulnerabilities automatically, optimized especially for Kubernetes from the beginning. In cloud-native application stacks, everything is code. Kubernetes is highly complex software. and Java are the most popular languages within Kubernetes environments.

Java

Java Open Source Engineering Database

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Triplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. Shape the future of software in your industry. Shape the future of software in your industry. Client libraries are available for Node, Ruby, Python, PHP, Go, Java and.NET.

Software

Software Software Infrastructure Metrics

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High Scalability

MARCH 5, 2019

Triplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. Shape the future of software in your industry. Receive occasional invitations to chat with for 30 minutes about your area of expertise and software usage. Who's Hiring? Apply here.

Software

Software Software Analytics Infrastructure

How Dynatrace uses Dynatrace to combat the Log4j vulnerability (Log4Shell)

Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2022

Log4Shell is a software vulnerability in Apache Log4j 2 , a popular Java library for logging information in applications. The vulnerability enables a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a service on the internet if the service runs certain versions of Log4j 2. Coordination and communication.

Social Media

Social Media Strategy Media Java

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

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Anyone who’s concerned with developing, delivering, and operating software knows the importance of making software and the systems it runs on observable. That is, relying on metrics, logs, and traces to understand what software is doing and where it’s running into snags.

Metrics

Metrics Open Source Traffic Cache

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High Scalability

JANUARY 19, 2019

Triplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. Shape the future of software in your industry. Shape the future of software in your industry. Client libraries are available for Node, Ruby, Python, PHP, Go, Java and.NET.

Software

Software Software Infrastructure Metrics

White Box Testing – Guide, Tools, and Techniques

Testlodge

MARCH 15, 2023

White box testing is a software testing approach based on an analysis of the internal structure of the component or system. Internal structure may include code, architecture, integrations, and data flows of a system. Suppose developers perform unit testing before delivering code to testers.

Testing

Testing Testing Tools Java Programming

On Technique

O'Reilly

AUGUST 9, 2022

GitHub Copilot (based on a model named Codex , which is derived from GPT-3) generates code in a number of programming languages, based on comments that the user writes. Going in the other direction, GPT-3 has proven to be surprisingly good at explaining code. But it’s obvious where this is trending. But I don’t know if that’s true.

Programming

Programming Java C++ Design

Mastering MongoDB® Timeout Settings

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 14, 2023

MongoDB’s Java and Ruby drivers have this parameter set to 10 seconds by default – if there is no established connection or a new link within that time frame then it gives up on trying. x+ in Java). We have provided some sample code below to illustrate the timeout configuration in Java and Ruby.

Java

Java Network Servers Database

What is application security? And why it needs a new approach

Dynatrace

MARCH 17, 2021

Application security is a software engineering term that refers to several different types of security practices designed to ensure applications do not contain vulnerabilities that could allow illicit access to sensitive data, unauthorized code modification, or resource hijacking. Dynatrace news.

Open Source

Open Source Cloud Games Java

OTel contributor Q&A: Dynatrace works to ensure enterprise readiness for OpenTelemetry

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

We sat together with Armin Ruech and Daniel Dyla, software engineers at Dynatrace and leaders within the OpenTelemetry community, to hear about their involvement with the second most active CNCF project. My name is Armin Ruech, I’m a Software Engineer at Dynatrace and I started as a software developer around 3.5 years ago.

Open Source

Open Source Software Engineering Government Java

Fallacy #8: The network is homogeneous

Particular Software

JUNE 28, 2021

Most of the code running on the planet, at least the code that mattered, was written in.NET or Java, and interoperability via web services was at least serviceable. Consider for a moment a software system for a hospital emergency room. Thus, in the hospital ER system, birthdate is a nullable field.

Network

Network Java Google Design

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High Scalability

MARCH 8, 2021

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Education AWS Scalability Java

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

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Education

Education AWS Scalability Java

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

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Education

Education AWS Scalability Java

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High Scalability

JANUARY 25, 2021

Looking to rapidly hire Top Software Developers ? Toptal will match you with top-quality, pre-screened freelance software developers that meet your project requirements. has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. They also do live system design discussions every week.

Education

Education AWS Scalability Java

Why software supply chain attacks are increasing

Handling Flaky Unit Tests in Java

Trending Sources

Why the supposedly fixed CVE-2020-36641 vulnerability is still exploitable—And what to do about it

RSA guide 2024: AI and security are top concerns for organizations in every industry

Understanding, detecting and localizing partial failures in large system software

Protect your organization against zero-day vulnerabilities

Application observability meets developer observability: Unlock a 360º view of your environment

InfoSec 2022 guide: How DevSecOps practices drive organizational resilience

What is Log4Shell? The Log4Shell vulnerability explained (and what to do about it)

Handling flaky unit tests in Java

Black Hat 2023: Pairing causal AI and generative AI for cybersecurity threats

What is vulnerability management? And why runtime vulnerability detection makes the difference

Dynatrace with industry consortium submits OpenFeature standard as CNCF sandbox project

Why vulnerability management enhances your cloud application security strategy

Advance DevSecOps practices with a vulnerability management strategy

Mitigating security vulnerabilities moves front and center in modern observability strategies

Black Hat 2022 highlights zero-day attacks as key theme

RSA Guide 2023: Cloud application security remains core challenge for organizations

RSA 2022 guide: DevSecOps transformation with runtime vulnerability management

Sponsored Post: Software Buyers Council, InMemory.Net, Triplebyte, Etleap, Stream, Scalyr

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Log4Shell highlights need for secure digital transformation with observability, vulnerability management

Sponsored Post: Software Buyers Council, InMemory.Net, Triplebyte, Etleap, Stream, Scalyr

Dynatrace Application Security boosts BizDevSecOps for Kubernetes

Sponsored Post: Software Buyers Council, InMemory.Net, Triplebyte, Etleap, Stream, Scalyr

Sponsored Post: Software Buyers Council, InMemory.Net, Triplebyte, Etleap, Stream, Scalyr

How Dynatrace uses Dynatrace to combat the Log4j vulnerability (Log4Shell)

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

Sponsored Post: Software Buyers Council, InMemory.Net, Triplebyte, Etleap, Stream, Scalyr

White Box Testing – Guide, Tools, and Techniques

On Technique

Mastering MongoDB® Timeout Settings

What is application security? And why it needs a new approach

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OTel contributor Q&A: Dynatrace works to ensure enterprise readiness for OpenTelemetry

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Fallacy #8: The network is homogeneous

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