Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2020

The AI began to consume our data and turned the team into “virtual gardeners”, all the issues that were causing failures were being weeded out, applications pruned, one by one, the landscape turned from a jungle to a well kept garden. The post Stability requires virtual gardening! The evolution.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

Companies now recognize that technologies such as AI and cloud services have become mandatory to compete successfully. According to the recent Dynatrace report, “ The state of AI 2024 ,” 83% of technology leaders said AI has become mandatory to keep up with the dynamic nature of cloud environments.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 19, 2022

Technology that helps teams securely regain control of complex, dynamic, ever-expanding cloud environments can be game-changing. At our virtual conference, Dynatrace Perform 2022 , the theme is “Empowering the game changers.”. Empowering the game changers at Dynatrace Perform 2022. Modern observability vs. monitoring.

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Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 28, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. New Technologies (this post). I decided to publish a few parts here to see if anything triggers a discussion. – Cloud. – Agile.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In the recently published Gartner® “ Critic al Capabilities for Application Performance Monitoring and Observability,” Dynatrace scored highest for the IT Operations Use Case (4.15/5) This is accomplished by using service monitoring and anomaly detection for early-warning notifications of performance issues.” 5) in the Gartner report.

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DZone

MARCH 20, 2024

Understanding KVM Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) stands out as a virtualization technology in the world of Linux. Embedded within the Linux kernel, KVM empowers the creation of VMs with their virtualized hardware components, such as CPUs, memory, storage, and network cards, essentially mimicking a machine.

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

Firecracker is the virtual machine monitor (VMM) that powers AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, and has been used in production at AWS since 2018. The traditional view is that there is a choice between virtualization with strong security and high overhead, and container technologies with weaker security and minimal overhead.

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Alex Podelko

AUGUST 18, 2019

While there are still quite a lot of cases where it is still applicable, it needs to evolve into more sophisticated processes tightly integrated with development and other parts of performance engineering. That dictates changes needed in performance testing (and, eventually, performance testing tools).

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

In my recent Performance Clinic with Stefano Doni , CTO & Co-Founder of Akamas , I made the statement, “Application development and release cycles today are measured in days, instead of months. Increase in environment complexity and increased frequency in delivery requires a novel approach to performance optimization.

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. I'd expect between 0.1%

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Nutanix overview dashboard The extension automatically gathers real-time performance data from your Nutanix clusters to monitor resource usage, cluster health, and more, all in one place. Often, organizations resort to using separate tools for different parts of their technology stack. (Select Hub from the dock in the Dynatrace web UI.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

The IDC FutureScape: Worldwide IT Industry 2020 Predictions highlights key trends for IT industry-wide technology adoption for the next five years and includes these predictions: Hasten to innovation. One way to apply improvements is transforming the way application performance engineering and testing is done.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2023

Amazon’s new general-purpose Linux for AWS is designed to provide a secure, stable, and high-performance execution environment to develop and run cloud applications. This is done by detecting availability and performance problems in real time across an entire technology stack while presenting teams with answers — not alert storms.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

As more organizations adopt cloud-native technologies, traditional approaches to IT operations have been evolving. This transition to public, private, and hybrid cloud is driving organizations to automate and virtualize IT operations to lower costs and optimize cloud processes and systems. So, what is ITOps?

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

More organizations are adopting a hybrid IT environment, with data center and virtualized components. Instead of treating storage, server, compute, and network functions as separate entities, HCI virtualizes these resources. Organizations can add new resources as needed to increase compute power, storage space, or network performance.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! Or even on a plane.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

While Kubernetes is still a relatively young technology, a large majority of global enterprises use it to run business-critical applications in production. Findings provide insights into Kubernetes practitioners’ infrastructure preferences and how they use advanced Kubernetes platform technologies. Java, Go, and Node.js

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Dynatrace

MAY 24, 2023

Large enterprises face different challenges A well-described synthetic check can reduce, and in many cases avoid, unforeseen downtime due to failure domains by replicating the expected user journey and measuring its performance. For large enterprises, this is not even a consideration. CAGR in the forecasted period ending 2030.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

By Xiaomei Liu , Rosanna Lee , Cyril Concolato Introduction Behind the scenes of the beloved Netflix streaming service and content, there are many technology innovations in media processing. Our previous tech blog Packaging award-winning shows with award-winning technology detailed our packaging technology deployed on the streaming side.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

The phrase “serverless computing” appears contradictory at first, but for years now, successful companies have understood the benefit of using serverless technologies to streamline operations and reduce costs. Inefficiencies cost technology companies up to $100 billion per year. What is serverless computing?

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

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Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Some time ago Federico Toledo published Performance Testing with Open Source Tools- Busting The Myths. How did you get into performance engineering? Most jobs I was offered were related to older technologies like Prolog/Cobol. At first, we were using LoadRunner, but we quickly moved to Performance Center.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As cloud-native, distributed architectures proliferate, the need for DevOps technologies and DevOps platform engineers has increased as well. It coincides with the advent of complex, distributed cloud technologies such as microservices and containers. DevOps engineer tools can help ease the pressure as environment complexity grows.

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Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

In this blog, I will be going through a step-by-step guide on how to automate SRE-driven performance engineering. Step-by-step guide: SRE-driven performance analysis with Dynatrace. Dynatrace news. Keptn uses SLO definitions to automatically configure Dynatrace or Prometheus alerting rules. This is what this blog is all about.

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Tasktop

MAY 11, 2021

Oh, and it just so happens that one of our favourite events of the year takes place too, providing the perfect opportunity for the DevOps community to come together: The virtual DevOps Enterprise Summit, Europe (18-20 May 2021). . Stop by the Tasktop virtual booth for your chance to spin the wheel and win some prizes.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. These include popular technologies such as web servers and web applications, along with advanced solutions like distributed data stores and containerized microservices.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

This helps significantly in automatically answering complex questions such as “ Is the CPU saturation of my F5 device caused by any of the virtual servers running on it? Virtual servers. The built-in unified analysis pages offer real-time comparison of key performance indicators while applying a topology-first approach to the data.

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Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2022

Today, Google announced virtual machines (VMs) based on the Arm architecture on Compute Engine called Tau T2A , which are optimized for cost-effective performance for scale-out workloads, as well as GKE Arm. As a close technology partner of GCP and a leader in Kubernetes monitoring, we’re excited to be a launch partner.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

As organizations adopt microservices architecture with cloud-native technologies such as Microsoft Azure , many quickly notice an increase in operational complexity. Analyzing user experience to ensure uniform performance after migration. Performance efficiency. Dynatrace news. Operational excellence. Reliability.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Understanding why a user is experiencing transactional or performance issues enables organizations to achieve greater observability that goes beyond metrics, traces and logs. Digital experience monitoring (DEM) allows an organization to optimize customer experiences by taking into account the context surrounding digital experience metrics.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2023

“Fostering resilience is not only critical to business performance and transformation, but also ensuring organizations can adapt to virtually any situation,” wrote Vishal Gupta in “ Four ways to build a more resilient and future-proof business ,” in Fortune.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2021

In an industry that traditionally relies on in-person service, building a successful virtual relationship with customers requires creative thinking and collaboration across the business. Using Dynatrace’s new Application Security module , Mark was quickly able to identify which technologies were deployed and on which hosts.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 29, 2022

This orchestration layer uses software-based tools to automate IT tasks and manage resources—virtualized or other. An orchestration tool can create a new virtual machine instance and determine the best location in the cloud for deploying that instance. Support virtual machines and containers. Scale and provision new resources.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

These resources generate vast amounts of data in various locations, including containers, which can be virtual and ephemeral, thus more difficult to monitor. AWS provides a suite of technologies and serverless tools for running modern applications in the cloud. Serverless technologies can reduce management complexity.

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Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. – New Technologies. Cloud seriously impacts system architectures that has a lot of performance-related consequences. – Cloud.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Platform performance —get visibility into the performance of the Citrix platform to optimize application delivery. Dynatrace Extension: SAP ABAP platform performance. Dynatrace Extension: database performance as experienced by the SAP ABAP server. Synthetic monitoring: Citrix login availability and performance.

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Latency Performance Virtualization Infrastructure 117

Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2023

In this type of environment, it’s difficult to apply traditional monitoring, virtually impossible to keep it consistently current, and it’s challenging to get the outputs you need to truly understand performance. They need to automate manual tasks, streamline processes, and invest in new technologies.

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