January, 2025

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Enrich Tenable vulnerability findings with Dynatrace runtime context

Dynatrace

Dynatrace integrates with Tenable to provide a single pane of glass for security findings across various environments and products, allowing unified analysis, prioritization, and orchestration of findings. With the enriched runtime context, you can focus on critical issues that impact your production apps and help reduce noise for the DevSecOps teams that remediate those issues.

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A Guide to Microservices Deployment: Elastic Beanstalk vs Manual Setup

DZone

There are many ways to deploy your microservices, each offering different levels of control, simplicity, and scalability. One approach is using Elastic Beanstalk , a fully managed service that simplifies deployment, scaling, and management. Another option is to deploy manually, giving you full control over the infrastructure but requiring more setup and maintenance.

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Title Launch Observability at Netflix Scale

The Netflix TechBlog

Part 2: Navigating Ambiguity By: VarunKhaitan With special thanks to my stunning colleagues: Mallika Rao , Esmir Mesic , HugoMarques Building on the foundation laid in Part 1 , where we explored the what behind the challenges of title launch observability at Netflix, this post shifts focus to the how. How do we ensure every title launches seamlessly and remains discoverable by the right audience?

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Build for the Web, Build on the Web, Build with the Web

CSS Wizardry

What is the real, long-term cost of adopting a JavaScript framework?

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MySQL 8.4.3 and 9.1.0: Major Performance Gains Revealed

Percona

At Percona, we’ve always prioritized performance, and recent trends in MySQL’s development have been a point of concern for us. In particular, the performance deterioration in the MySQL 8.4.x and 9.y versions caught our attention, as highlighted in Marco Tusas insightful blog post, Sakila, Where Are You Going?

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MySQL 8.4 Support in Percona Toolkit 3.7.0

Percona Community

Percona Toolkit 3.7.0 has been released on Dec 23, 2024. The main feature of this release is MySQL 8.4 support. In this blog, I will explain what has been changed. A full list of improvements and bug fixes can be found in the release notes. TLDR; Replication statements in 8.4 are fully supported by the Percona Toolkit pt-slave-delay has been deprecated. pt-slave-find has been renamed to pt-replica-find.

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Better dashboarding with Dynatrace Davis AI: Instant meaningful insights

Dynatrace

Ensuring smooth operations is no small feat, whether you’re in charge of application performance, IT infrastructure, or business processes. Chances are, youre a seasoned expert who visualizes meticulously identified key metrics across several sophisticated charts. Your trained eye can interpret them at a glance, a skill that sets you apart. However, your responsibilities might change or expand, and you need to work with unfamiliar data sets.

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Part 2: A Survey of Analytics Engineering Work at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

This article is the second in a multi-part series sharing a breadth of Analytics Engineering work at Netflix, recently presented as part of our annual internal Analytics Engineering conference. Need to catch up? Check out Part 1. In this article, we highlight a few exciting analytic business applications, and in our final article well go into aspects of the technical craft.

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Page bloat update: How does ever-increasing page size affect your business and your users?

Speed Curve

The median web page is 8% bigger than it was just one year ago. How does this affect your page speed, your Core Web Vitals, your search rank, your business, and most important – your users? Keep scrolling for the latest trends and analysis. For almost fifteen years, I've been writing about page bloat, its impact on site speed, and ultimately how it affects your users and your business.

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Double-keyed Caching: How Browser Cache Partitioning Changed the Web

Addy Osmani

A deep dive into how browser cache partitioning has fundamentally changed web performance optimization, examining the trade-offs between privacy and performance in modern web applications.

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Percona Monitoring and Management 3.0.0 (GA)

Percona Community

We’re excited to announce the release of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 3.0.0 GA. The Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 3.0.0 release delivers major security and stability enhancements. Notable security improvements include rootless deployments and encryption of sensitive data, along with improved API authentication using Grafana service accounts.

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Create simple workflows to automate alerts during development

Dynatrace

Traditional monitoring approaches often require manual scripting and integration to get alerted about production-threatening issues in pre-production environments. Dynatrace Simple Workflows make this process automatic and frictionlessthere is no additional cost for workflows. By offering a single trigger and a single task, you can rapidly set up an action (like Slack or email notifications) to detect specific exceptions in your services.

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Optimizing SQL Server Performance With AI: Automating Query Optimization and Predictive Maintenance

DZone

SQL Server is a powerful relational database management system (RDBMS), but as datasets grow in size and complexity, optimizing their performance becomes critical. Leveraging AI can revolutionize query optimization and predictive maintenance, ensuring the database remains efficient, secure, and responsive. In this article, we will explore how AI can assist in these areas, providing code examples to tackle complex queries.

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What Adrian Did Next — Part 4 — how I helped Netflix launch on iPad and iPhone — 2007 to 2010

Adrian Cockcroft

What Adrian Did NextPart 4how I helped Netflix launch on iPad and iPhone2007 to2010 Screen shots from Adrians Instant Queue Add for Netflix iPhone App in2008 Ive been meaning to get another installment of my career history posted for a while. The 15th anniversary of the launch of the iPad gave me a reason to pull out a chunk of that history into thispost.

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Beyond “Prompt and Pray”

O'Reilly

TL;DR: Enterprise AI teams are discovering that purely agentic approaches (dynamically chaining LLM calls) dont deliver the reliability needed for production systems. The prompt-and-pray modelwhere business logic lives entirely in promptscreates systems that are unreliable, inefficient, and impossible to maintain at scale. A shift toward structured automation, which separates conversational ability from business logic execution, is needed for enterprise-grade reliability.

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Your Data’s Not Safe Until It’s TDE-Safe — Here’s How

Percona

If youre managing a PostgreSQL database and handling sensitive data or PII, the answer is simple: You need data-at-rest encryption. This isnt just a “nice-to-have” featureits often a legal or regulatory requirement. Compliance auditors, security officers, and privacy-conscious customers all expect it. But is this enough? We think NO!

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Percona Monitoring and Management 3.0.0 (GA)

Percona Community

We’re excited to announce the release of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 3.0.0 (GA). The Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 3.0.0 release delivers major security and stability enhancements. Notable security improvements include rootless deployments and encryption of sensitive data, along with improved API authentication using Grafana service accounts.

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Let’s learn how to send OpenTelemetry data to Dynatrace together!

Dynatrace

One of the things I love most about OpenTelemetry (OTel) is that its vendor-neutral, which means you can send the same OpenTelemetry data to different vendors. In fact, most of the major Observability vendors out there not only support ingesting OpenTelemetry data but also actively contribute to the project, including Dynatrace. Check out the 2023 OpenTelemetry Journey Report for more info.

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Kubernetes in the Cloud: A Guide to Observability

DZone

As per the saying If you dont measure it, you cant manage it by Deming , observability and monitoring is our way to measure our services. Kubernetes is pretty revolutionary when it comes to the way it handles deployments and scales. But the way containers are continuously created and destroyed can sometimes present challenges with monitoring. This is where observability comes into play, offering critical insights into how your system is performing and why issues occur.

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How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing

Smashing Magazine

How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing Saad Khan 2025-01-07T14:00:00+00:00 2025-01-07T22:04:48+00:00 This article is sponsored by Cloudways Product launches and sales typically attract large volumes of traffic. Too many concurrent server requests can lead to website crashes if youre not equipped to deal with them.

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Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner (WVS) Security Testing Tool (Hands on Review)

Software Testing Help

This is a review of Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner (WVS). It is a tool for a security audit of web applications and websites. It is the best tool for SQL. Read more The post Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner (WVS) Security Testing Tool (Hands on Review) appeared first on Software Testing Help.

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Using Blue/Green Deployment For (near) Zero-Downtime Primary Key Updates in RDS MySQL

Percona

Large tables can pose challenges for many operations when working with a database. Occasionally, we may need to modify the table definition. Since RDS replication does not use asynchronous for its replication, the typical switchover procedure is not feasible.

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Performance Hero: Annie Sullivan

Speed Curve

Let's kick off the new year by celebrating someone who has not just had a huge impact on web performance over the past few years, but who has even more exciting stuff in the works for the future: Annie Sullivan! Annie leads the Chrome Speed Metrics team at Google, which has arguably had the most significant impact on web performance of the past decade.

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Monitoring GitHub-hosted runners with Dynatrace

Dynatrace

As more organizations embrace DevOps and CI/CD pipelines, GitHub-hosted runners and GitHub Actions have emerged as powerful tools for automating workflows. But as with many other automation tools, it can be difficult to maintain the performance and visibility of these workflows. That’s where Dynatrace business events and automation workflows come into play to provide a comprehensive view of your CI/CD pipelines.

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Multi-Tenancy and Its Improved Support in Hibernate 6.3.0

DZone

Multi-tenancy has become an important feature for modern enterprise applications that need to serve multiple clients (tenants) from a single application instance. While an earlier version of Hibernate had support for multi-tenancy, its implementation required significant manual configuration and custom strategies to handle tenant isolation, which resulted in higher complexity and slower processes, especially for applications with a number of tenants.

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Service Reliability Mathematics

Addy Osmani

Service reliability is often reduced to a simple percentage but the reality is far more nuanced than those decimal points suggest. Lets explore what these numbers actually mean.

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Tight Mode: Why Browsers Produce Different Performance Results

Smashing Magazine

Tight Mode: Why Browsers Produce Different Performance Results Tight Mode: Why Browsers Produce Different Performance Results Geoff Graham 2025-01-09T13:00:00+00:00 2025-01-09T14:35:05+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear I was chatting with Debug B ear s Matt Zeunert and, in the process, he casually mentioned this thing called Tight Mode when describing how browsers fetch and prioritize resources.

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Attaching a Percona Monitoring and Management Graph Image Along with an Alerting Notification

Percona

This article will be helpful if you use the Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) instance and alert notifications, as it is nice to capture the image of the graph when you receive the alert.

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MySQL at Uber (2025)

Uber Engineering

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Dynatrace SaaS release notes version 1.306

Dynatrace

We have released Dynatrace version 1.306. To learn what’s new, have a look at the release notes. The post Dynatrace SaaS release notes version 1.306 appeared first on Dynatrace news.

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Low-Maintenance Backend Architectures for Scalable Applications

DZone

After years of working in the intricate world of software engineering, I learned that the most beautiful solutions are often those unseen: backends that hum along, scaling with grace and requiring very little attention. My own journey of redesigning numerous systems and optimizing their performance has taught me time and again that creating a truly low-maintenance backend is an art that goes far beyond simple technical implementation.

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Biggest Doesn’t Win

O'Reilly

January has been notable for the number of important announcements in AI. For me, two stand out: the US governments support for the Stargate Project, a giant data center costing $500 billion, with investments coming from Oracle, Softbank, and OpenAI ; and DeepSeeks release of its R1 reasoning model , trained at an estimated cost of roughly $5 milliona large number but roughly one-tenth what it cost OpenAI to train its o1 models.

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Percona Monitoring and Management 3.0.0-GA - Tech Preview

Percona Community

We’re excited to announce the Tech Preview release of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 3.0.0 (GA). This release is intended for testing environments only, as it’s not yet production-ready. The public release will be available through standard channels in upcoming days. The Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 3.0.0 release delivers major security and stability enhancements.

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MySQL with Diagrams Part Two: How KILL Works

Percona

Here is part two of my MySQL with Diagrams series (Here’s part one – MySQL with Diagrams Part One: Replication Architecture). We are going to explore how MySQL handles thread termination using the KILL command, as visualized in the provided diagram, and provide sample demonstrations to help you better understand.

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How Uber Uses Ray® to Optimize the Rides Business

Uber Engineering

Large-scale computation is a major back end and infrastructure challenge for Uber to solve as we scale. We applied a compute engine called Ray in Ubers marketplace to improve computation efficiency and engineering productivity.

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Build resilient IT systems and manage regulatory requirements with compliance and resilience capabilities from Dynatrace

Dynatrace

The Importance of Resilience in a Complex Regulatory Landscape In today’s digital age, operational resilience is paramount for businesses striving to maintain seamless operations and safeguard their reputation. The ability to quickly react to incidents is no longer sufficient; organizations must proactively prevent issues and manage risks to ensure continuous service delivery.

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You Need to Validate Your Databases

DZone

Ensuring database consistency can quickly become chaotic, posing significant challenges. To tackle these hurdles, it's essential to adopt effective strategies for streamlining schema migrations and adjustments. These approaches help implement database changes smoothly, with minimal downtime and impact on performance. Without them, the risk of misconfigured databases increases just as Heroku experienced.

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