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How to boost SRE productivity with observability-driven DevOps

Dynatrace

DevOps and site reliability engineering (SRE) teams aim to deliver software faster and with higher quality. But, manual steps — such as reviewing test results and addressing production issues resulting from performance, resiliency, security, or functional issues — often hinder these efforts. Check out the full webinar here!

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The Future of Performance Testing

Alex Podelko

While there are still quite a lot of cases where it is still applicable, it needs to evolve into more sophisticated processes tightly integrated with development and other parts of performance engineering. That dictates changes needed in performance testing (and, eventually, performance testing tools).

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A guide to event-driven SRE-inspired DevOps

Dynatrace

This is a mouthful of buzzwords” is how I started my recent presentations at the Online Kubernetes Meetup as well as the DevOps Fusion 2020 Online Conference when explaining the three big challenges we are trying to solve with Keptn – our CNCF Open Source project: Automate build validation through SLI/SLO-based Quality Gates. Dynatrace news.

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Master Apache JMeter. From Load Testing to DevOps

Alex Podelko

From load testing to DevOps. It appears that Apache JMeter became the most popular load testing tool. In 2014, I was preparing a presentation about load testing tools and criteria for their selection. A stereotypical, last-moment performance check is not enough anymore.

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Reinventing Performance Testing: Continuous Integration

Alex Podelko

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. In agile development / DevOps environments it should be interwoven with the whole development process. – Cloud. – Agile.

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

Dynatrace

The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform already comes with release analysis, version awareness , and Service Level Objective (SLO) support as part of the Dynatrace Cloud Automation solution , helping DevOps and SRE teams automate the delivery and operational decisions. GitOps: Cloud automation as code. Expand to more use cases.

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Are Times still Good for Load Testing?

Alex Podelko

If we speak about commercial load testing tools, we see rather a shrinking market and not too much innovation recently. Microfocus acquired both LoadRunner from HP and Silk Performer (as a part of Borland). At one point SOASTA gathered a great team of performance experts – almost all left the company by now. Open Source.

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