DZone

JANUARY 7, 2025

By integrating observability as a first-class citizen within your platform engineering practices, you can simplify this challenge and stay on track in the ever-evolving cloud-native landscape.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Platform engineering is the creation and management of foundational infrastructure and automated processes, incorporating principles like abstraction, automation, and self-service, to empower development teams, optimize resource utilization, ensure security, and foster collaboration for efficient and scalable software development.

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DZone

JANUARY 20, 2025

Historically, the first implementations of recommendation systems were built on legacy rule-based engines like IBM ODM (Operational Decision Manager) and Red Hat JBoss BRMS (Business Rule Management System). However, recent advances in machine learning have fundamentally changed how recommendations are generated.

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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.

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DZone

JUNE 20, 2025

As platform engineers, we design systems to be resilient, scalable, and reliable. Chaos engineering , a discipline born out of necessity, is not about causing random destruction, but it’s about intentionally injecting failure into your systems in a controlled environment to understand how they behave under stress.

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Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2024

I spoke with Martin Spier, PicPay’s VP of Engineering, about the challenges PicPay experienced and the Kubernetes platform engineering strategy his team adopted in response. Taking a strategic Kubernetes platform engineering approach Spier noted that keeping Kubernetes simple requires a strategic approach.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2024

To enhance reliability, testing the software under these conditions is crucial to prepare for potential issues by leveraging chaos engineering or similar tools. Chaos engineering is a practice that extends beyond traditional failure testing by identifying unpredictable issues. It forms the cornerstone of chaos engineering experiments.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Platform engineering is on the rise. According to leading analyst firm Gartner, “80% of software engineering organizations will establish platform teams as internal providers of reusable services, components, and tools for application delivery…” by 2026.

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DZone

MAY 7, 2025

site reliability engineers (SREs) need to have deep knowledge in a wide range of subjects and topics such as coding, operating systems, computer networking, large-scale distributed systems, SRE best practices , and more to be successful at their job. This book is a must read for anyone interested in site reliability engineering.

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DZone

OCTOBER 8, 2024

A performance engineer is actually a professional performance testing and engineering expert with in-depth knowledge of many load-testing tools like LoadRunner, JMeter, Neoload, Gatling, K6, etc., and must have extensive experience in specialized skills.

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DZone

JANUARY 6, 2024

Meetings are a crucial aspect of software engineering , serving as a collaboration, communication, and decision-making platform. In this article, we will delve deeper into the issues associated with meetings in software engineering and explore the available data.

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DZone

JULY 31, 2024

This article sets out to explore some of the essential tools required by organizations in the domain of data engineering to efficiently improve data quality and triage/analyze data for effective business-centric machine learning analytics, reporting, and anomaly detection.

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Data Engineering FinTech Engineering Analytics 287

DZone

MARCH 24, 2025

The Day Our Serverless Dream Turned into a Nightmare It was 3 PM on a Tuesday. Our "serverless" order processing system built on AWS Lambda and API Gateway was humming along, handling 1,000 transactions/minute. Then, disaster struck.

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DZone

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Ingress is essential for routing incoming traffic to your service; however, there may be scenarios in which you want to prevent search engines from indexing your service's content: it might be a development environment or something else.

Traffic 289

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Our ecosystem enables engineering teams to run applications and services at scale, utilizing a mix of open-source and proprietary solutions. The Data & Insights organization partners closely with our engineering teams to share key efficiency metrics, empowering internal stakeholders to make informed business decisions.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Query execution plans offer even more insights into how a database engine executes queries. Query execution plan Execution plans provide a roadmap for how the database engine executes queries. Additionally, it allows you to analyze how resource consumption or performance metrics for a given query have changed over time.

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DZone

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Heres a comprehensive exploration of why Autoscaling isnt a guaranteed fix and suggestions for engineers to improve its performance and cost-effectiveness. Although Autoscaling is an effective tool, it does not serve as a one-size-fits-all remedy.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

At Dynatrace, we understand your challenges when dealing with external packageswhether you’re hustling with reverse engineering, automatically fetching open source code, or playing the guessing game. Source code is loaded only on an engineers workstation, using the engineers privileges.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 27, 2025

AWS Senior Principal Engineers, Niko Matsakis and Marc Bowes, take us inside Aurora DSQL's development: scaling write operations without two-phase commit, overcoming garbage collection hurdles, and embracing Rust for both data and control planes.

AWS 218

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DZone

JANUARY 10, 2025

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.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2025

In this blog, we’ll discuss the steps we’ve taken to use the newly published Snyk Integration for Dynatrace to create actionable Jira tickets for our engineers. Reducing security alert fatigue Last year, we conducted an internal survey to understand how and where our engineers are using Snyk, and what improvements they wish to see.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 10, 2025

Initial architecture At the end of 2021, when we envisioned Tudum’s implementation, we considered architectural patterns that would be maintainable, extensible, and well-understood by engineers. Client applications like web, mobile, and TV devices, act as rendering engines for SDUI data.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 6, 2025

Challenge: Dont understand the cascading effects of their setup on these perceived black box personalization systems - Personalization System Engineers Role: Develop and operate the personalization systems. Challenge: End up spending unplanned cycles on title launch and personalization investigations.

Scalability 237

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Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2025

A Practical Guide to SQL Extensions with Dynatrace (53 min video) Engineers now see full context and experience true observability, without relying on or maintaining fragile ingest logic in custom bash scripts.

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Retail Airlines Healthcare Transportation 184

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Continuous visibility and assessment provide platform engineering, DevSecOps, DevOps, and SRE teams with the ability to track, validate, and remediate potential compliance-relevant findings and create the necessary evidence for the auditing process.

Best Practices 290

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Dynatrace

JUNE 17, 2025

Imagine a DevOps engineer troubleshooting a failed deployment in a development environment. Suspecting a misconfiguration or runtime error, the engineer needs to find traces containing the term “exception”—buried deep within the span.events array of nested records.

AWS 212

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Dynatrace

MAY 22, 2025

A slow-loading page, unexpected layout shifts, or unresponsive interactions can frustrate potential customerscausing higher bounce rates, abandoned carts, and low search engine rankings. Core Web Vitals arent just technical jargonthey directly influence a website’s user experience, business outcomes, and search engine rankings.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

This standardization enhances adoption within the personalization stack, simplifies the system, and improves understanding and debuggability for engineers. They must also provide enough information for partner engineers to identify the problem with the underlying service in cases of system-level issues.

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Traffic Entertainment Strategy Innovation 190

Dynatrace

MARCH 5, 2025

Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) also face significant challenges in maintaining database reliability, ensuring performance, and preventing disruptions in highly dynamic and distributed environments. One slow query, an inefficient index, or a schema misstep can grind an application to a halt.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Enterprise adoption with self-service: To facilitate enterprise adoption while minimizing tool sprawl and data silos, Dynatrace allows observability teams and platform engineers to implement a self-service model for developers.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 12, 2024

For example, for companies with over 1,000 DevOps engineers, the potential savings are between $3.4 million to $5 million annually in increased developer efficiency with our vulnerability and exposure offering alone.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 5, 2025

From developers leveraging platform engineering tools to optimize application performance, to Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) ensuring resilience, and executives gaining critical business insights, observability increases the velocity of innovation across every level of an organization.

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DZone

JUNE 10, 2025

As more and more data warehouses become cloud-native, and the complexity of running real-time pipelines increases, data engineers face a non-trivial problem: how to operationalize quality checks without slowing down the velocity of the ETL workflows. Data quality has shifted from a checkpoint to being an operational requirement.

Cloud 186

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

To get a better idea of OpenTelemetry trends in 2025 and how to get the most out of it in your observability strategy, some of our Dynatrace open-source engineers and advocates picked out the innovations they find most interesting. Because its constantly evolving, staying up to date with the latest in OpenTelemetry is no small feat.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 11, 2025

Agentic AI is revolutionizing—and dramatically accelerating—how engineering teams respond to incidents and debug use cases. By monitoring how AI agents communicate using standards such as Model Context Protocol (MCP) , performance engineers can gain deep insights into how systems and AI models themselves are performing.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2025

Use cases Security and compliance automation in CI/CD pipelines : Enabling DevOps and platform engineering teams to catch Kubernetes misconfigurations before deployment. RBAC and identity management auditing: Helping SREs and platform engineers increase visibility into Kubernetes RBAC to prevent excessive permissions.

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Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2025

With more than 13,000 attendees, KubeCon EU reaffirmed its reputation as the go-to forum for cloud-native developers and platform engineers. From insights into observability and platform engineering to groundbreaking advancements in security and AI/LLM integrations, the conference offered a wealth of knowledge.

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Cloud Open Source Best Practices Innovation 144