The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

By Jose Fernandez Today, we are thrilled to announce the release of bpftop , a command-line tool designed to streamline the performance optimization and monitoring of eBPF applications. Striking a balance between eBPF’s benefits and system load is crucial, ensuring it enhances rather than hinders our operational efficiency.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Mobile applications (apps) are an increasingly important channel for reaching customers, but the distributed nature of mobile app platforms and delivery networks can cause performance problems that leave users frustrated, or worse, turning to competitors. What is mobile app performance?

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Microsoft Hyper-V is a virtualization platform that manages virtual machines (VMs) on Windows-based systems. It enables multiple operating systems to run simultaneously on the same physical hardware and integrates closely with Windows-hosted services. This leads to a more efficient and streamlined experience for users.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Log management is an organization’s rules and policies for managing and enabling the creation, transmission, analysis, storage, and other tasks related to IT systems’ and applications’ log data. This is critical to ensure high performance, security, and a positive user experience for cloud-native applications and services.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting. Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting. It’s a common misconception that the code which is produced by the framework build tools (Webpack, for example) is fully optimized and cannot be improved upon any further. Performance Costs.

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DZone

JUNE 19, 2020

It is always exciting for developers from all over the world whenever they get to showcase their best code editor at computer expos and tech conferences. On that note when we talk about free code editors for Windows and Mac to use in the year 2020, we cannot help but wait in anticipation for brand-new features to use right away.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Our Cluster Performance Engineering Team in collaboration with our Autonomous Cloud Enablement (ACE) and development teams quickly identified the root cause and fixed the problem in no time! And the code-level root cause information is what makes troubleshooting easy for developers. Step 3: Identifying root-cause in code.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Infrastructure as code is a way to automate infrastructure provisioning and management. In this blog, I explore how Dynatrace has made cloud automation attainable—and repeatable—at scale by embracing the principles of infrastructure as code. Infrastructure-as-code. But how does it work in practice? Cloud Automation use cases.

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High Scalability

APRIL 9, 2020

Google added another book into their excellent SRE series: Building Secure and Reliable Systems. Copy/pasting a few paragraphs: "In this book we talk generally about systems, which is a conceptual way of thinking about the groups of components that cooperate to perform some function. It's free to download, so don't be shy.

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Alex Podelko

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

As I started to work for MongoDB, I started to get questions about MongoDB performance. We do have a lot of great resources that can help with MongoDB performance. First of all, it is MongoDB and Atlas documentation: Performance , Monitoring , and Query Optimization. Tips and Tricks for Query Performance: Let Us.explain() Them.

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DZone

MAY 19, 2020

When a software program or an application does not work the way it is created or designed to perform, it is called a software bug. It is estimated that software developers make 100-150 errors for every thousand lines of code. In most cases, these errors are caused by developers or designers.

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Percona

OCTOBER 12, 2023

It shows which code paths are more busy on the CPU in given samples. An example of a flame graph can be found below: Each box is a function in the stack, and wider boxes mean more time the system was busy on CPU on these functions. Flame graphs are a graphical representation of function calls.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

These are just some of the topics being showcased at Perform 2023 in Las Vegas. Perform 2023 news At Perform 2023 in Las Vegas, the headliner theme is IT automation. What’s more, organizations are no longer concerned only about application performance and sales numbers. We’ll post news here as it happens!

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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. A GitOps approach to observability.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2019

And with today’s increasing financial, availability, performance and innovation requirements meaning applications need to be geographically dispersed to constantly changing dynamic powerhouses, it has become simply not possible to provision, update, monitor and decommissions them by only leveraging manual processes.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

These are the goals of AI observability and data observability, a key theme at Dynatrace Perform 2024 , the observability provider’s annual conference, which takes place in Las Vegas from January 29 to February 1, 2024. Join us at Dynatrace Perform 2024 , either on-site or virtuall y, to explore these themes further.

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DZone

MAY 18, 2020

Today I want to talk about my experience working on solve performance issues in the systems. In several years working as a software developer I have faced performance issues several times, and I want to share some tips about this topic. In this post, I want to share the way how I work to understand the problem.

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ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

We look here at a Gedankenexperiment: move 16 bytes per cycle , addressing not just the CPU movement, but also the surrounding system design. The standard short move code tests that len is small, say < 16, and then does. The short plus medium code covers all lengths up to 255 bytes. Thought Experiment. Long Moves.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Every year at our annual user conference, Dynatrace Perform , we recognize the most inspiring success stories from our most innovative, transformative customers and partners. DevOps: companies who shorten innovation cycles, automate their CI/CD pipelines , and improve code quality for production. Most Valuable Customer Contributor.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Kevlin Henney and I were riffing on some ideas about GitHub Copilot , the tool for automatically generating code base on GPT-3’s language model, trained on the body of code that’s in GitHub. First, we wondered about code quality. We know how to test whether or not code is correct (at least up to a certain limit).

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InfoQ

MAY 15, 2023

A horizontally scalable exabyte-scale blob storage system which operates out of multiple regions, Magic Pocket is used to store all of Dropbox’s data. Adopting SMR technology and erasure codes, the system has extremely high durability guarantees but is cheaper than operating in the cloud. By Facundo Agriel

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 15, 2019

BPF (eBPF) tracing is a superpower that can analyze everything, and I'll show you how in my upcoming book BPF Performance Tools: Linux System and Application Observability , coming soon from Addison Wesley. A time where you can pose arbitrary questions of the system, and it can answer them.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Behind the scenes, a myriad of systems and services are involved in orchestrating the product experience. These backend systems are consistently being evolved and optimized to meet and exceed customer and product expectations. This approach has a handful of benefits. This technique facilitates validation on multiple fronts.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Web developers or administrators did not have to worry or even consider the complexity of distributed systems of today. Great, your system was ready to be deployed. Once the system was deployed, to ensure everything was running smoothly, it only took a couple of simple checks to verify. What is a Distributed System?

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DZone

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

But with this complexity comes fragility and lack of transparency into system performance and reliability. At Perform 2024, Dynatrace announced three major platform enhancements aimed squarely at bridging this observability gap for engineering teams.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2020

As a PSM system administrator, you’ve relied on AppMon as a preconfigured APM tool for detecting, diagnosing, and repairing problems that impact the operational health of your Windchill application suite. The post It’s time to upgrade the PTC System Monitor (PSM)! Dynatrace news. You name it, and we have it!

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Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2022

Observability means how well you can understand what is happening in a system by collecting metrics, logs, and traces. This visibility also ensures there are no performance issues with customer-facing transactions or internal applications critical to your business. You can’t monitor what you don’t know.

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DZone

APRIL 26, 2022

An equally important aspect of this AI growth equation is the ever-expanding demands it places on computer system requirements to deliver higher AI performance. What’s more is that this AI performance boost driven by software optimizations is free, requiring almost no code changes or developer time and no additional hardware costs.

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DZone

JANUARY 24, 2020

Everything you need to know about performance engineering. Being a software developer means much more than simply writing bug-free code. As highly distributed apps become more complex, developers need to ensure their systems are as user-friendly, secure, and scalable as possible.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2024

Critical infrastructure and services refer to the systems, facilities, and assets vital for the functioning of society and the economy. In a monitoring scenario, teams typically preconfigure dashboards to alert about performance issues they may expect to see later. Protecting these systems is integral to ensuring national security.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

For software engineering teams, this demand means not only delivering new features faster but ensuring quality, performance, and scalability too. One way to apply improvements is transforming the way application performance engineering and testing is done. Performance-as-a-self-service . Try it today using Keptn .

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Testlodge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

” Destructive testing is a method that uses the system in a way other than intended to make the software program deliberately fail. How the system responds is then analyzed. Some of the tools are data-driven and allow the tester to perform actions as a user who is uninformed about the internal workings of the software program.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Dynatrace CEO Rick McConnell at Perform 2022 in Las Vegas. Organizations are accelerating movement to the cloud, resulting in complex combinations of hybrid, multicloud [architecture],” said Rick McConnell, Dynatrace chief executive officer at the annual Perform conference in Las Vegas this week. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

We’re pleased to announce that Dynatrace is among the first set of partners to offer support for AWS Distributor , a capability of AWS Systems Manager, that allows you to select from available popular third party agents to install and manage. What is AWS Systems Manager Distributor? How to configure AWS distributor to install OneAgent.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 12, 2020

Many web applications have been created in PHP, including popular content management systems like WordPress and e-commerce platforms like Magento. Dynatrace has long provided automatic code-level performance monitoring for PHP applications with OneAgent. Automatically locate bottlenecks in your code. to PHP 7.3.

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DZone

JANUARY 29, 2021

API Test is crucial for the software systems to function at high quality. They allow data exchange and communication from one to another software system. Every app you build nowadays completely relies on Application Programming Interfaces. What is API Test?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2021

Cookieless Alternative To Embed HTML, CSS And JS Code Snippets. Cookieless Alternative To Embed HTML, CSS And JS Code Snippets. At the same time, we want to have an interactive website with comments, polls, videos, code examples, and many more. Deploy the code example with your favorite hosting provider (e.g. Get Started.

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