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Legacy Code Refactoring: Tips, Steps, and Best Practices

DZone

Nobody loves to work on legacy code because it can be a confusing endeavor; at best, it’s time-consuming. But do we now live with the huge repercussions and costs of retaining and utilizing legacy codes as they are?

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Automating DevOps practices fuels speed and quality

Dynatrace

Still, while DevOps practices enable developer agility and speed as well as better code quality, they can also introduce complexity and data silos. More seamless handoffs between tasks in the toolchain can improve DevOps efficiency, software development innovation, and better code quality. They need automated DevOps practices.

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What are quality gates? How to use quality gates to deliver better software at speed and scale

Dynatrace

Organizations can customize quality gate criteria to validate technical service-level objectives (SLOs) and business goals, ensuring early detection and resolution of code deficiencies. Ultimately, quality gates safeguard code viability as it advances through the delivery pipeline. But how do they function in practice?

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State and local agencies speed incident response, reduce costs, and focus on innovation

Dynatrace

The team can “catch more bugs and performance problems before the code is deployed to the production environment,” Smith said. This means that our development teams are spending less time fixing defects and more time writing new code. It helps our DevOps team respond and resolve systems’ problems faster,” Smith said.

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Kubernetes Observability: Code Profiling With Flame Graphs

Percona

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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Speed Up of the WAL Archiving in PostgreSQL 15

Percona

The following comments in the PostgreSQL code can tell the whole story. /* * pgarch_readyXlog * * Return name of the oldest xlog file that has not yet been archived. * This happens in a high transaction system where WAL archiving is not able to catch up with WAL generation in peak hours or if WAL arching is failing for some time.

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2023: Key themes and best practices for protecting against cyberthreats

Dynatrace

Organizations should adopt comprehensive practices that encompass a wide range of potential vulnerabilities and apply them across all their IT systems. Implementing vulnerability management in your application security process aids in vulnerability detection and prevention before they can enter production code.