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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. Following record-breaking growth of 31.8%

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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. But as more organizations adopt cloud-native technologies and distribute workloads among multicloud environments, that goal seems harder to attain. What is always-on infrastructure?

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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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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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Ensuring the Successful Launch of Ads on Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

This tier extended existing infrastructure by adding new backend components and a new remote call to our ads partner on the playback path. To do this, we devised a novel way to simulate the projected traffic weeks ahead of launch by building upon the traffic migration framework described here.

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Easily monitor your entire infrastructure with Dynatrace Synthetic monitors

Dynatrace

In those cases, what should you do if you want to be proactive and ensure that your infrastructure is always up and running? Are you looking to monitor your infrastructure using one of our ready-made extensions, or would you like to draw on our experience and create your own synthetic monitors? Third-party synthetic monitors.

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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. According to some data, organizations use an average of 10 network monitoring tools across their technology stacks because they lack a unified view of network activity.

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