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Why business resiliency depends on unified observability and security

Dynatrace

trillion this year 1 , more than two-thirds of the adult population now relying on digital payments 2 for financial transactions, and more than 400 million terabytes of data being created each day 3 , it’s abundantly clear that the world now runs on software. With global e-commerce spending projected to reach $6.3

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

Dynatrace

They help foster confidence and consistency throughout the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC). The following are specific examples that demonstrate quality gates in action: Security gates Security gates ensure code meets key security requirements defined by development and security stakeholders.

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Performance Testing at MongoDB

Alex Podelko

34 (2020), Performance Testing with David Daly , is another good introduction. These two papers provide many more insights: Automated system performance testing at MongoDB , DBTest 2020 [ Video ]. The Use of Change Point Detection to Identify Software Performance Regressions in a Continuous Integration System , ICPE 2020 [ Video ].

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Automate CI/CD pipelines with Dynatrace: Part 2, Deploy stage

Dynatrace

Even when the staging environment closely mirrors the production environment, achieving a complete replication of all potential scenarios, such as simulating extremely high traffic volumes to assess software performance, remains challenging. This can lead to a lack of insight into how the code will behave when exposed to heavy traffic.

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What is chaos engineering?

Dynatrace

As software performance degrades or fails, the chaos engineers’ findings enable developers to add resiliency into the code, so the application remains intact in an emergency. The insights you can gain by testing the limits of your applications deliver a lot of benefits for your development teams and your overall business.

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Common SLO pitfalls and how to avoid them

Dynatrace

This demand creates an increasing need for DevOps teams to maintain the performance and reliability of critical business applications. SLOs created by upper management without buy-in from relevant development, operations, and SRE stakeholders can lead to finger-pointing, blaming, and chaotic war rooms when violations occur.

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What is? OpenTelemetry??An open-source standard for logs, metrics, and traces

Dynatrace

OpenTelemetry (also referred to as OTel) is an open-source observability framework made up of a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs, that enables IT teams to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data for analysis and understand software performance and behavior. What happened to OpenTracing and OpenCensus?