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AI-powered DNS request tracking extends infrastructure observability for high quality network traffic

Dynatrace

Applications and services are often slowed down by under-performing DNS communications or misconfigured DNS servers, which can result in frustrated customers uninstalling your application. While our competitors only provide generic traffic monitoring without artificial intelligence, Dynatrace automatically analyzes DNS-related anomalies.

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Black Friday traffic exposes gaps in observability strategies

Dynatrace

What’s the problem with Black Friday traffic? But that’s difficult when Black Friday traffic brings overwhelming and unpredictable peak loads to retailer websites and exposes the weakest points in a company’s infrastructure, threatening application performance and user experience. These kinds of problems are unacceptable.

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Network performance monitoring top of mind for CloudOps teams

Dynatrace

For cloud operations teams, network performance monitoring is central in ensuring application and infrastructure performance. Network performance monitoring core to observability For these reasons, network activity becomes a key data source in IT observability.

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What is infrastructure as code? Discover the basics, benefits, and best practices

Dynatrace

.” While this methodology extends to every layer of the IT stack, infrastructure as code (IAC) is the most prominent example. Here, we’ll tackle the basics, benefits, and best practices of IAC, as well as choosing infrastructure-as-code tools for your organization. What is infrastructure as code? Consistency.

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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 distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage.

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Five-nines availability: Always-on infrastructure delivers system availability during the holidays’ peak loads

Dynatrace

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. While high-volume traffic often boosts sales, it can also compromise uptimes. In its pursuit, IT teams hover over system performance dashboards hoping their preparations will deliver five nines—or even four nines—availability. What is always-on infrastructure?

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The Power of Caching: Boosting API Performance and Scalability

DZone

Benefits of Caching Improved performance: Caching eliminates the need to retrieve data from the original source every time, resulting in faster response times and reduced latency. Reduced server load: By serving cached content, the load on the server is reduced, allowing it to handle more requests and improving overall scalability.

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