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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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Bringing Software Engineering Rigor to Data

DZone

In software engineering, we've learned that building robust and stable applications has a direct correlation with overall organization performance. The data community is striving to incorporate the core concepts of engineering rigor found in software communities but still has further to go. Posted with permission.

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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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What are quality gates? How to use quality gates to deliver better software at speed and scale

Dynatrace

To remain competitive in today’s fast-paced market, organizations must not only ensure that their digital infrastructure is functioning optimally but also that software deployments and updates are delivered rapidly and consistently. They help foster confidence and consistency throughout the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC).

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Vulnerability assessment: key to protecting applications and infrastructure

Dynatrace

Protecting IT infrastructure, applications, and data requires that you understand security weaknesses attackers can exploit. Static analysis of application code finds specific points in software that a hacker can exploit, such as SQL injection attacks. Some possible actions include: Upgrading and patching software vulnerabilities.

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Path to NoOps part 2: How infrastructure as code makes cloud automation attainable—and repeatable—at scale

Dynatrace

Infrastructure as code is a way to automate infrastructure provisioning and management. In this blog, I explore how Dynatrace has made cloud automation attainable—and repeatable—at scale by embracing the principles of infrastructure as code. Infrastructure-as-code. But how does it work in practice?

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Implementing service-level objectives to improve software quality

Dynatrace

When organizations implement SLOs, they can improve software development processes and application performance. SLOs improve software quality. SLOs can be a great way for DevOps and infrastructure teams to use data and performance expectations to make decisions, such as whether to release and where engineers should focus their time.

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