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

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

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This approach supports innovation, ambitious SLOs, DevOps scalability, and competitiveness. Before a new version of the application is deployed, the software is subject to a series of load tests that evaluate capacity and performance under a series of simulated traffic and application demands. But how do they function in practice?

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How Dynatrace boosts production resilience with Site Reliability Guardian

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These examples can help you define your starting point for establishing DevOps and SRE best practices in your organization. While the first guardian validates the traffic, the second guardian checks the business transactions generated during the observation period. The functionality is implemented via an automated workflow.

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

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That’s why good communication between SREs and DevOps teams is important. At the lowest level, SLIs provide a view of service availability, latency, performance, and capacity across systems. The result is safer, more secure releases for DevOps teams and less overhead for SREs.

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Implementing service-level objectives to improve software quality

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SLOs enable DevOps teams to predict problems before they occur and especially before they affect customer experience. First, it helps to understand that applications and all the services and infrastructure that support them generate telemetry data based on traffic from real users. SLOs minimize downtime. Define SLOs for each service.

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Lessons learned from enterprise service-level objective management

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A service-level objective ( SLO ) is the new contract between business, DevOps, and site reliability engineers (SREs). In their new dashboard, they added dimensions for load, latency, and open problems for each component. The “Four Golden Signals” include the following: Latency. SLO dashboard defined by architectural boundary.

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No need to compromise visibility in public clouds with the new Azure services supported by Dynatrace

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Azure Traffic Manager. Get insights into various aspects of database performance, including SQL queries or procedures, SQL modifications, SQL transactions, any detected problems or availability issues, hotspots, and more—all the valuable information that a DevOps team could ask for to optimize database performance. Azure Batch.

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