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

Dynatrace

Benefits of quality gates Quality gates provide several advantages to organizations, including the following: Optimized software performance : Quality gates assess code at different SDLC stages and ensure that only high-quality code progresses. This approach supports innovation, ambitious SLOs, DevOps scalability, and competitiveness.

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Service level objectives: 5 SLOs to get started

Dynatrace

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, ensuring high-quality software is crucial for organizations to thrive. Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. Latency primarily focuses on the time spent in transit.

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Common SLO pitfalls and how to avoid them

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This demand creates an increasing need for DevOps teams to maintain the performance and reliability of critical business applications. As such, it’s important when creating your SLOs to avoid these common mistakes that can cause more headaches for your DevOps teams. But there are SLO pitfalls. But there are SLO pitfalls.

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Service level objective examples: 5 SLO examples for faster, more reliable apps

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In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, ensuring high-quality software is crucial for organizations to thrive. Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. Latency primarily focuses on the time spent in transit.

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

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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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Observability platform vs. observability tools

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As applications have become more complex, observability tools have adapted to meet the needs of developers and DevOps teams. A database could start executing a storage management process that consumes database server resources. In this case, the best option may be to stop the process and execute it when system load is low.

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

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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. In-process exporter. Monitoring begins here.