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SLOs done right: how DevOps teams can build better service-level objectives

Dynatrace

So how do development and operations (DevOps) teams and site reliability engineers (SREs) distinguish among good, great, and suboptimal SLOs? The state of service-level objectives While SLOs play a critical role in helping DevOps and SRE teams align technical objectives with business goals, they’re not always easy to define.

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Stream logs to Dynatrace with Amazon Data Firehose to boost your cloud-native journey

Dynatrace

Without the ability to see the logs that are relevant to your service, infrastructure, or cloud function—at exactly the right time and in exactly the right format—your cloud or DevOps engineers lose the ability to find the root causes of the issues they troubleshoot. In some deployment scenarios, you might skip CloudWatch altogether.

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What Are Istio Virtual Services and Destination Rules?

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It makes sense for DevOps engineers and architects to perform canary deployments in their CI/CD workflows. In canary deployments, the new version, called canary, is tested with limited live traffic at first. They cannot skip testing a release for the sake of adhering to continuous delivery practices, can they?

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Site reliability done right: 5 SRE best practices that deliver on business objectives

Dynatrace

Site reliability engineering (SRE) has recently become a critical discipline in recent years as the world has shifted in favor of web-based interactions. This shift is leading more organizations to hire site reliability engineers to guarantee the reliability and resiliency of their services. Mobile retail e-commerce spending in the U.

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Keeping DevOps cool in a heated environment

Dynatrace

Dynatrace’s AI engine, Davis automatically identified high traffic surges on the county website as the fire took hold. Dynatrace was able to tell the county you have high traffic on your site due to an influx of residents specifically seeking information on the Woolsey Fire. High Traffic Notification.

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

Dynatrace

In the previous installment of this blog series , we explored how to set up Dynatrace as a build-stage orchestrator to effectively address the challenges faced by Site Reliability Engineers (SREs). This can lead to a lack of insight into how the code will behave when exposed to heavy traffic.

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Implementing service-level objectives to improve software quality

Dynatrace

SLOs can be a great way for DevOps and infrastructure teams to use data and performance expectations to make decisions, such as whether to release and where engineers should focus their time. SLOs enable DevOps teams to predict problems before they occur and especially before they affect customer experience. SLOs promote automation.

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