Dynatrace
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
To understand whats happening in todays complex software ecosystems, you need comprehensive telemetry data to make it all observable. In fact, observability is essential for shaping how we design smarter, more resilient systems for the future. With so many types of technologies in software stacks around the globe, OpenTelemetry has emerged as the de facto standard for gathering telemetry data.
DZone
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
In the realm of modern software architecture, middleware plays a pivotal role in connecting various components of distributed systems. One of the most significant challenges faced by middleware applications is optimizing database interactions. This is crucial because middleware often serves as the bridge between client applications and backend databases, handling a high volume of requests and data processing tasks.
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The Netflix TechBlog
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
Part 1: Creating the Source of Truth for Impressions By: TulikaBhatt Imagine scrolling through Netflix, where each movie poster or promotional banner competes for your attention. Every image you hover over isnt just a visual placeholder; its a critical data point that fuels our sophisticated personalization engine. At Netflix, we call these images impressions, and they play a pivotal role in transforming your interaction from simple browsing into an immersive binge-watching experience, all tailo
Scalegrid
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
Choosing between RabbitMQ and Kafka depends on your specific messaging needs. RabbitMQ is designed for flexible routing and message reliability, while Kafka handles high-throughput event streaming and real-time data processing. Both serve distinct purposes, from managing message queues to ingesting large data volumes. This article outlines the key differences in architecture, performance, and use cases to help determine the best fit for your workload.
O'Reilly
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Submit a proposal for a talk at our new virtual conference, Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It.Proposals must be submitted by March 5; the conference will take place April 24, 2025, from 11AM to 3PM EDT. When tools like GitHub Copilot first appeared, it was received wisdom that AI would make programming easier. It would be a boon to new programmers at the start of their careers, just learning a few new programming languages.
Percona
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
A critical security vulnerability has been identified in the following software that Percona has made available: PMM Open Virtual Appliance (OVA) installations, version 2.38 and above. This vulnerability does not extend to Docker or Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) identifier for this issue has been requested from mitre.org.
Dynatrace
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
Apache Struts 2 has a history of critical vulnerabilities. Broken Apache Struts 2: Technical Deep Dive into CVE-2024-53677The vulnerability allows attackers to manipulate file upload parameters, possibly leading to remote code execution. Figure 1. A high-level overview of how an attacker can exploit a CVE-2024-53677 vulnerable Struts application to upload a web shell into a web-accessible directory and then remotely execute commands on the web server via the web shell.
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Smashing Magazine
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time Matt Zeunert 2025-02-12T17:00:00+00:00 2025-02-13T01:34:15+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Loading your website HTML quickly has a big impact on visitor experience. After all, no page content can be displayed until after the first chunk of the HTML has been loaded.
Scalegrid
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Scaling RabbitMQ ensures your system can handle growing traffic and maintain high performance. This guide will cover how to distribute workloads across multiple nodes, set up efficient clustering, and implement robust load-balancing techniques. Youll also learn strategies for maintaining data safety and managing node failures so your RabbitMQ setup is always up to the task.
O'Reilly
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
In developing the content for our May 8 virtual conference Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It , we couldnt help but want to feature Harper Reed, whose recent post My LLM Codegen Workflow ATM so perfectly encapsulates the kind of experimentation that developers are going through as they come to grips with the transformation that AI is bringing to how they work, what they can accomplish, and which tools they should be adopting.
John McCalpin
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
The Multicore Era Over the past ~15 years, server processors from Intel and AMD have evolved from the early quad-core processors to the current monsters with over 50 cores per socket. The memory subsystems have grown at similar rates, from 3-4 DRAM channels at 1.333 GT/s transfer rates to 8-12 DRAM channels with 4.8 GT/s transfer rates, providing an aggregate peak memory bandwidth increase of 10x or more.
Dynatrace
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
Every software developer has faced the frustration of debugging. Whether it means jumping between multiple windows, sifting through extensive logs to track down bugs, trying to reproduce locally, or requesting additional redeployments from DevOps, debugging poses significant challenges and a resource drain. The problem intensifies when bugs occur mysteriously only in production.
DZone
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
Problem statement : Ensuring the resilience of a microservices-based e-commerce platform. System resilience stands as the key requirement for e-commerce platforms during scaling operations to keep services operational and deliver performance excellence to users. We have developed a microservices architecture platform that encounters sporadic system failures when faced with heavy traffic events.
Percona
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
As we know,Orchestrator is a MySQL high availability and replication management tool that aids in managing farms of MySQL servers. In this blog post, we discuss how to make the Orchestrator (which manages MySQL) itself fault-tolerantand highly available. When considering HA for the Orchestrator one of the popular choices will be using the Raft consensus.
Scalegrid
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
PostgreSQL 17 improves performance, backups, JSON handling, and security. Heres what stands out: Key Takeaways Better Performance: Faster write operations and improved vacuum processes help handle high-concurrency workloads more smoothly. Incremental Backups: Speeds up recovery and makes data management more efficient for active databases. Improved JSON Handling & Security: Improved logical replication and the new MAINTAIN privilege give database administrators more control and flexibility.
Sutter's Mill
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
On Saturday, the ISO C++ committee completed the second-last design meeting of C++26, held in Hagenberg, Austria. There is just one meeting left before the C++26 feature set is finalized in June 2025 and draft C++26 is sent out for its international comment ballot (aka Committee Draft or CD), and C++26 is on track to be technically finalized two more meetings after that in early 2026.
O'Reilly
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
On April 24, OReilly Media will be hosting Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It a live virtual tech conference spotlighting how AI is already supercharging developers, boosting productivity, and providing real value to their organizations. If youre in the trenches building tomorrows development practices today and interested in speaking at the event, wed love to hear from you by March 5.
Dynatrace
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
Welcome, data enthusiasts! Whether you’re a seasoned IT expert or a marketing professional looking to improve business performance, understanding the data available to you is essential. That’s where Dynatrace dashboards come in. They aren’t just fancy visuals; they’re your go-to tool for making sense of your data, understanding correlations, and gaining real-time insights.
DZone
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
As artificial intelligence gets more advanced, robots are increasingly used to free humans from the risks of inspecting dangerous locations or the drudgery of routine visual surveillance. To provide some degree of autonomous decision, the robot often has cameras connected to an onboard Linux computer such as an NVIDIA Jetson or x86 single-board computer (SBC).
Percona
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
At first glance, MongoDB Atlas seems like the perfect solutionan easy-to-use, fully managed cloud database that takes the hassle out of deployment and scaling. But as businesses grow, many discover that Atlass convenience comes at a costliterally.
Scalegrid
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Choosing the right database often comes down to MongoDB vs MySQL. This article will help you understand the core differences in data structure, scalability, and use cases. Whether you need a relational database for complex transactions or a NoSQL database for flexible data storage, weve got you covered. Key Takeaways MySQL is a relational database management system ideal for structured data and complex relationships, ensuring data integrity and reliability.
tRPC
FEBRUARY 16, 2025
We are excited to announce the new TanStack React Query integration for tRPC is now available on tRPC's next -release. Compared to our classic React Query Integration it's simpler and more TanStack Query-native, choosing to utilize the QueryOptions and MutationOptions interfaces native to TanStack React Query, instead of wrapping useQuery and useMutation with our own client. greeting.tsx tsx import { useQuery } from '@tanstack/react-query' ; import { useTRPC } from '.
O'Reilly
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
When I started working on the new edition of Head First C# back in 2023, AI tools like ChatGPT and Copilot were already changing how developers write and learn code. It was clear that I needed to cover them. But that raised an interesting challenge: How do you teach new and intermediate developers to use AI effectively? Almost all of the material that I found was aimed at senior developerspeople who can recognize patterns in code, spot the subtle errors often found in AI-generated code, and refi
Dynatrace
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
Developers are key stakeholders in modern observability. Their responsibilities have stretched dramatically in the last few years, together with their tasks and challenges. Historically, the industry focused more on operational-driven observability but has since begun to includeamplified by shift-left movementsdevelopers’ unique needs. In this blog post, we will see how Dynatrace harnesses the power of observability and analytics to tailor a new experience to easily extend to the left, all
DZone
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
With the evolution of modern applications serving increasing needs for real-time data processing and retrieval, scalability does, too. One such open-source, distributed search and analytics engine is Elasticsearch, which is very efficient at handling data in large sets and high-velocity queries. However, the process for effectively scaling Elasticsearch can be nuanced, since one needs a proper understanding of the architecture behind it and of performance tradeoffs.
Percona
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Typically, we receive customer tickets regarding crashes or bugs, where we request a core dump to analyze and identify the root cause or understand the unexpected behavior. To read the core dumps, we also request the linked libraries used by the server’s MySQL.
Percona Community
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
In today’s landscape, where security breaches are a constant concern, reducing potential attack vectors is a top priority for any organization. Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) has established itself as a reliable solution for database performance monitoring. With the release of PMM version 3, Percona has significantly strengthened its security posture, notably by introducing support for rootless container deployments.
Speed Curve
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
Have you ever looked at the page speed metrics – such as Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint – for your site in both your synthetic and real user monitoring tools and wondered "Why are these numbers so different?" Photo by Freepik Part of the answer is this: You have a lot of control over the design and code for the pages on your site, plus a decent amount of control over the first and middle mile of the network your pages travel over.
O'Reilly
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
On April 24, OReilly Media will be hosting Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It a live virtual tech conference spotlighting how AI is already supercharging developers, boosting productivity, and providing real value to their organizations. If youre in the trenches building tomorrows development practices today and interested in speaking at the event, wed love to hear from you by March 5.
Dynatrace
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Dynatrace integrates with AWS Security Hub to unify, visualize, and automate security findings across tools and environments. Adding Dynatrace runtime context to security findings allows smarter prioritization, helps reduce the noise from alerts, and focuses your DevSecOps teams on efficiently remedying the critical issues affecting your production environments and applications.
DZone
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
This is especially important in the modern world of web development, where it can be challenging for a site to load in a reasonable amount of time. End customers experience delays when visiting slow-loading sites, higher bounce rates, and lost business prospects. It's to overcome this challenge that front-end performance has become the norm or optimization among developers.
Percona
FEBRUARY 7, 2025
The upcoming Percona Operator for PostgreSQL v2.6.0 release introduces support for PostgreSQL 17, which opens exciting possibilities for data security. Since pg_tde comes pre-installed in Percona’s official PostgreSQL 17 images, this release presents an excellent opportunity to implement Transparent Data Encryption in your Kubernetes-deployed databases.
Percona Community
FEBRUARY 16, 2025
Introduction Percona Operator for MongoDB is an open-source solution designed to streamline and automate database operations within Kubernetes. It allows users to effortlessly deploy and manage highly available, enterprise-grade MongoDB clusters.The operator simplifies both initial deployment and setup, as well as ongoing management tasks like backups, restores, scaling, and upgrades, ensuring seamless database lifecycle management.
Speed Curve
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
We often hear how special, generous, and supportive the web performance community is. This didn't happen overnight. This month, we're excited to recognize someone who has been a huge part of creating the community culture we enjoy today: Sergey Chernyshev. Whether answering questions on social media, helping someone with a proposal for a conference talk, or simply being welcoming and kind to newcomers, webperf folks are some of the most generous people you could ever hope to find.
O'Reilly
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
Theres a lot of chatter in the media that software developers will soon lose their jobs to AI. I dont buy it. It is not the end of programming. It is the end of programming as we know it today. That is not new. The first programmers connected physical circuits to perform each calculation. They were succeeded by programmers writing machine instructions as binary code to be input one bit at a time by flipping switches on the front of a computer.
Dynatrace
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
With the increasing frequency of cyber threats, identifying vulnerabilities early is essential. Recently, a critical vulnerability was discovered in Apache Struts, a widely used Java-based web application framework. This vulnerability, published as CVE-2024-53677 on December 11, 2024, affects the file upload mechanism, allowing for path traversal and potential remote code execution.
DZone
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
When developing a product, issues inevitably arise that can impact both its performance and stability. Slow system response times, error rate increases, bugs, and failed updates can all damage the reputation and efficiency of your project. However, before addressing these problems, it is essential to gather and analyze statistics on their occurrence.
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