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

Dynatrace

Before a new version of the application is deployed, the software is subject to a series of load tests that evaluate capacity and performance under a series of simulated traffic and application demands. These metrics are latency, traffic, errors, and saturation, all of which must be key considerations when curating user experience.

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7 Best Performance Testing Tools to Look Out for in 2021

DZone

The system could work efficiently with a specific number of concurrent users; however, it may get dysfunctional with extra loads during peak traffic. Performances testing helps establish the scalability, stability, and speed of the software application.

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Customer expectations for retail: Beyond digital experience

Dynatrace

While digital experience has many facets, transaction speed usually ranks among the most important. IT teams spend months preparing for the peak traffic they anticipate will arrive with holiday shopping. From first to lasting impressions But there’s more to digital experience than speed. Technology to the rescue?

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Site reliability done right: 5 SRE best practices that deliver on business objectives

Dynatrace

Uptime Institute’s 2022 Outage Analysis report found that over 60% of system outages resulted in at least $100,000 in total losses, up from 39% in 2019. Microservices-based architectures and software containers enable organizations to deploy and modify applications with unprecedented speed. Make SLOs realistic.

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Dynatrace Application Security detects and blocks attacks automatically in real-time

Dynatrace

In today’s world, the speed of innovation is key to business success. WAFs protect the network perimeter and monitor, filter, or block HTTP traffic. Compared to intrusion detection systems (IDS/IPS), WAFs are focused on the application traffic. Dynatrace news. Unfortunately, they also introduce risk.

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What is vulnerability management? And why runtime vulnerability detection makes the difference

Dynatrace

But managing the breadth of the vulnerabilities that can put your systems at risk is challenging. ” Moreover, as modern DevOps practices have increased the speed of software delivery, more than two-thirds (69%) of chief information security officers (CISOs) say that managing risk has become more difficult.

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Performance Hero: Paul Calvano

Speed Curve

I've known Paul since I got started in web performance, back in the days of load and performance testing at Keynote Systems (now part of Dynatrace). Paul took me under his wing and quickly showed me the art of breaking websites to prepare them for large influxes of traffic like Black Friday.