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Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. This insight led us to build Edgar: a distributed tracing infrastructure and user experience. Our tactical approach was to use Netflix-specific libraries for collecting traces from Java-based streaming services until open source tracer libraries matured.

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Java memory optimizations: 3x Jenkins performance improvement with Dynatrace

Dynatrace

In my last blog I covered how our Engineering Productivity (EP) and Infrastructure & Services (IAS) Teams are ensuring that our DevOps tool chain is running as expected, even while workloads have shifted as our global engineering teams are now working from home. But let’s start from the beginning: Step #1 – Switching to Java 11.

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Extend infrastructure observability with JMX Extensions and additional full-stack metrics

Dynatrace

Infrastructure exists to support the backing services that are collectively perceived by users to be your web application. Issues that manifest themselves as performance degradation on a user’s device can often be traced back to underlying infrastructure issues. Dynatrace news. Monitor additional metrics.

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Kubernetes in the wild report 2023

Dynatrace

The study analyzes factual Kubernetes production data from thousands of organizations worldwide that are using the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform to keep their Kubernetes clusters secure, healthy, and high performing. Kubernetes infrastructure models differ between cloud and on-premises. Java, Go, and Node.js

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Dynatrace strengthens container security across popular cloud-based registries

Dynatrace

This is particularly vital for securing observability solutions like Dynatrace® Kubernetes infrastructure observability, application observability, and Application Security. This correlation ensures that Dynatrace software components are versioned exactly the same way for both containerized and non-containerized workloads.

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What is Log4Shell? The Log4Shell vulnerability explained (and what to do about it)

Dynatrace

Since December 10, days after a critical vulnerability known as Log4Shell was discovered in servers supporting the game Minecraft, millions of exploit attempts have been made of the Log4j 2 Java library, according to one team tracking the impact, with potential threat to millions more applications and devices across the globe.

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InfoSec 2022 guide: How DevSecOps practices drive organizational resilience

Dynatrace

They can develop software applications rapidly and gain access to extensible cloud resources without having to sink costs into IT plumbing or managing this infrastructure themselves. Adopting cloud-native technologies and open source software makes applications more feature rich and scalable, but it also increases IT complexity.