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Dynatrace strengthens container security across popular cloud-based registries

Dynatrace

MARCH 6, 2024

Reliability : Immutable images guarantee consistent performance and behavior, enhancing stability. The version numbers of these binaries correlate 1:1 with the container image’s tags. This approach offers potentially improved performance and reliability, as the registry can be optimized for specific network environments.

Cloud

Cloud Monitoring Java Infrastructure

Tutorial: Guide to automated SRE-driven performance engineering

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. Step #3: Tagging of services. A key concept in monitoring is proper tagging. Tagging allows you to better organize your monitoring data.

Engineering

Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices

IT Operations: A Use Case in the 2023 Gartner Critical Capabilities for Application Performance Monitoring and Observability

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.

Monitoring

Monitoring Artificial Intelligence Performance Analytics

Preload, prefetch and other link tags

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 24, 2019

My favorite part of this post is Ivan’s quick summary at the end which clearly defines what all these different tags can be used for: <link rel="preload"> – when you’ll need a resource in a few seconds. <link Direct Link to Article — Permalink The post Preload, prefetch and other link tags appeared first on CSS-Tricks.

Performance

Understanding the performance impact of anti-flicker snippets

Speed Curve

APRIL 27, 2022

But this practice comes with some performance measurement pitfalls: Hiding the contents of the page can have a dramatic effect on the Web Vitals that measure visual experience, such as First Contentful Paint (FCP) and Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). Update the Optimize anti-flicker snippet to include performance marks and measures.

Performance

Performance C++ Google Retail

Dynatrace leverages new AWS Lambda extensions for seamless end-to-end observability

Dynatrace

MAY 24, 2021

The Dynatrace extension for AWS Lambda now provides an even more reliable and performant means of seamless end-to-end distributed tracing for AWS Lambda functions in dynamic and heterogeneous environments, leveraging all the latest improvements of today’s GA release. Figure 2: Automatically imported AWS Resource tags on your AWS dashboard.

Lambda

Lambda AWS Serverless Java

Getting Your `head` Straight: A New CSS Performance Diagnostics Snippet

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Getting Your `head` Straight: A New CSS Performance Diagnostics Snippet. Getting Your `head` Straight: A New CSS Performance Diagnostics Snippet. There are plenty of ways to detect performance bottlenecks and audit CSS. In his session, Get Your Head Straight , Harry explains what exactly makes good or bad <head> tags.

Performance

Performance Website Engineering Design

Alice Boxhall for W3C TAG

Alex Russell

DECEMBER 22, 2018

TL;DR: Having achieved much of what I hoped when running for the TAG six years ago, it’s time for fresh perspectives. For the past 6 years, I’ve served as a member of the W3C’s Technical Architecture Group (or “TAG” for short). Improvements to WASM’s JS API to avoid security and performance problems.

Logistics

Logistics Google Government Design

ct.css — Performance Hints via Injected Stylesheet Alone

CSS - Tricks

OCTOBER 5, 2021

This is some bonafide CSS trickery from Harry that gives you some generic performance advice based on what it sees in your <head> element. From there, Harry gets very clever with selectors, determining problematic situations from the usage and placement of certain tags. It’s a nice little trick.

Performance

Performance Media Software Software

The Future of Performance Testing

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).

Performance Testing

Performance Testing Testing Performance Testing Tools

A Complete Guide to Performance Budgets

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

If you've invested countless hours in speeding up your pages, but you're not using performance budgets to prevent regressions, you could be at risk of wasting all your efforts. Background: How performance budgets work 1. What is a performance budget? What should a performance budget look like? Let's get started!

Performance

Performance Metrics Media Google

Machine Learning for Fraud Detection in Streaming Services

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Based on this reasoning, we tag all the accounts that acquire licenses very quickly as anomalous. It should be noted that the heuristics, even though work as a great proxy to embed the knowledge of security experts in tagging anomalous accounts, may not be completely accurate and they might wrongly tag accounts as anomalous (i.e.,

C++

C++ Metrics Tuning Strategy

Oracle SQL Performance Plan Review Automation

DZone

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Why Do We Need a SQL Performance Review? To provide performance audits with data points. During development (PLSQL/Java/OA Framework/XML Publisher), tag all the desired SQL queries with a code comment (Release Name/User Story Number). Generate a report with queries which could impact performance.

Performance

Performance Java Programming Database

Dynatrace supports Amazon Linux 2023 as an AWS launch partner

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.

AWS

AWS Lambda Serverless Virtualization

A look at the GigaOm 2024 Radar for Cloud Observability

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

The report offers a better understanding of the observability landscape.

Cloud

Cloud Analytics Monitoring Scalability

Web Performance for Product Managers

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

I love conversations about performance, and I'm fortunate enough to have them a lot. I hope this post can serve that purpose and cover a few of the fundamental areas of web performance that I’ve found to be most useful while honing the craft of product management. How is performance measured? The audience varies.

Performance

Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring

Dynatrace Managed release notes version 1.234

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Environment tags. Environment tags are now displayed in Environment Details page in Cluster Management Console. Performance improvements.

Monitoring

Monitoring Performance

Benchmark (YCSB) numbers for Redis, MongoDB, Couchbase2, Yugabyte and BangDB

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Application example: photo tagging; add a tag is an update, but most operations are to read tags. Here Redis and Yugabyte have higher latencies, Yugabyte performs bad for both Insert and Read for the test. Yugabyte performs really good in this test. Workload B: Read mostly workload. Workload C: Read only.

Benchmarking

Benchmarking Latency C++ Database

Boost application performance with improved CPU analysis across all your deep-monitored workloads

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

The improved filter bar allows you to search for workloads by name, tags, or technology. All deeper analysis actions are performed across the entire timeframe. The post Boost application performance with improved CPU analysis across all your deep-monitored workloads appeared first on Dynatrace blog.

Monitoring

Monitoring Performance Java Processing

Easily change OneAgent metadata, host name, and monitoring mode

Dynatrace

MARCH 26, 2020

You can achieve this by setting tags and properties for each OneAgent. Easily add and remove tags and properties. Tags and other OneAgent metadata are convenient mechanisms for partitioning your environment for reporting, management zones, or configuration purposes. The tags accept either labels or key-value pairs. --get-host-tags

Monitoring

Monitoring Infrastructure Architecture Servers

CSS and Network Performance

CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Let me address that by combining my two favourite topics: CSS and performance. It’s really, really bad for Start Render performance. The introduction of the Preload Scanner improved web page performance by around 19%, all without developers having to lift a finger. What’s the Big Problem? Avoid using @import in your CSS files.

Network

Network Performance Media Cache

Optimize mobile app performance, adoption, and conversions with Session Replay and business analytics

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

When it comes to mobile monitoring, everyone has their own point of view… Mobile is not a single technology: it involves different development teams handling Android and iOS apps, performance engineering teams, cloud operations, and marketing. How do I connect the dots between mobile analytics and performance monitoring?

Analytics

Analytics Mobile Performance Monitoring

Using JSONB in PostgreSQL: How to Effectively Store & Index JSON Data in PostgreSQL

Scalegrid

JULY 17, 2020

If you store each of the keys as columns, it will result in frequent DML operations – this can be difficult when your data set is large - for example, event tracking, analytics, tags, etc. It will result in a sequential scan: demo=# select * from books where data-&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;'tags' ?

Storage

Storage Database Efficiency Processing

The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

The usual caveats also apply: Performance is a deep and nuanced domain, and much can go wrong beyond content size and composition. How sites manage resources after-load can have a big impact on perceived performance. Until and unless teams have better data about their performance, the global baseline budget should be enforced.

Performance

Performance Network Mobile Speed

Manage dashboards more efficiently with more control with the JSON editor

Dynatrace

MAY 12, 2020

Dashboards are an important tool for effectively monitoring diverse IT ecosystems and for reporting your key performance indicators. But the more components you monitor and the more reports you build based on those insights, the harder it becomes to maintain oversight over the number of dashboards needed to perform all these tasks.

Efficiency

Efficiency Monitoring Availability Engineering

Answer-driven release validation with Dynatrace SaaS Cloud Automation

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2021

Based on survey results gathered during the Dynatrace Perform 2020 conference, we learned that just 10% of organizations have implemented automatic quality gates in their release pipelines. Only 10% of organizations have implemented automatic quality gate validation (Source: Perform 2020 survey). .

Cloud

Cloud DevOps Benchmarking Speed

Advancing Application Performance with NVMe Storage, Part 1

DZone

MAY 30, 2019

Financial analysis with real-time analytics is used for predicting investments and drives the FinTech industry's needs for high-performance computing. AI/ML can be applied across a broad spectrum of applications and industries.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Social Media FinTech Storage

The Three Types of Performance Testing

CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 27, 2018

A lot of companies—even if they are aware that performance is key to their business—are often unsure of how, when, or where performance testing sits within their development lifecycle. To make things worse, they’re also usually unsure whose responsibility performance measuring and monitoring is. Who: Engineers.

Performance Testing

Performance Testing Testing Performance Strategy

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

Performance

Performance Cache Media Metrics

Dynatrace extends contextual analytics and AIOps for open observability

Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2021

How can we optimize for performance and scalability? Relying solely on traditional analysis methods like tagging and data correlation to answer such questions is inadequate when an IT landscape isn’t properly represented in a data model or when the cause-and-effect chain of services remains unclear.

Analytics

Analytics Open Source Serverless Architecture

The platform engineer role: A game-changer or just hype?

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Site reliability engineering first emerged to address cloud computing’s new performance needs. Joining them for the discussion was Saim Safdar, Cloud Native Community Foundation (CNCF) ambassador and member of the CNCF TAG App Delivery Platform Working Group. What is this new discipline, and is it a game-changer or just hype?

Games

Games Engineering DevOps Education

Dynatrace for AWS Compute Optimizer

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

This gives users the critical, real-time insights to continuously right-size memory allocation within EC2 instances to scale up or down based on use for improved application performance and reduced cloud costs. How AWS Compute Optimizer works. Right-sizing for overprovisioned memory. Right-sizing for underprovisioned memory.

AWS

AWS Metrics Cloud Programming

Measuring the importance of data quality to causal AI success

Dynatrace

JANUARY 4, 2024

Additionally, teams should perform continuous audits to evaluate data against benchmarks and implement best practices for ensuring data quality. Another common impediment is manual data tagging and handling, an error-prone process that teams should minimize. Data-cleaning tools and methods are needed to identify and fix errors.

Government

Government Analytics Benchmarking Storage

Supporting Disaster Recovery with Dynatrace at NYCM

Dynatrace

JUNE 11, 2019

With an auto-tagging rule, Dynatrace can convert this priority level into a tag. Tips on Dynatrace Auto Tagging. If you haven’t explored the power of auto-tagging rules, I suggest you check out my 101 Tagging Performance Clinic I recorded with Mike Gibbons.

Virtualization

Virtualization Cloud Monitoring Systems

Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

If we had an ID for each streaming session then distributed tracing could easily reconstruct session failure by providing service topology, retry and error tags, and latency measurements for all service calls. Edgar uses this infrastructure tagging schema to query and join traces with log data for troubleshooting streaming sessions.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source

The Fight For The Main Thread

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Fight For The Main Thread The Fight For The Main Thread Geoff Graham 2023-10-24T18:00:00+00:00 2023-10-24T22:02:26+00:00 This article is sponsored by SpeedCurve Performance work is one of those things, as they say, that ought to happen in development. But not everything about performance happens directly at the code level, right?

Google

Google Analytics Traffic Metrics

Enhanced root cause analysis using events

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

For example, Dynatrace organizes entities into management zones and can tag them with important information, such as the owner and environment. Who performed it? Tag your host with demo: cpu_stress. How does the organization begin triaging and fixing the issue? Who needs to be alerted? Who is responsible for this issue?

DevOps

DevOps C++ Serverless Processing

Dynatrace Support for AWS Lambda Functions Powered by x86 and AWS Graviton2

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

According to the official AWS announcement, Graviton2-based Lambda functions offer up to 34% better price-performance improvement. Workloads using multi-threading and multi-processing, or performing many I/O operations, can experience lower execution time and, consequently, even lower costs based on execution time and configured memory size.

Lambda

Lambda AWS Serverless Metrics

ct.css — Performance Hints via Injected Stylesheet Alone

CSS - Tricks

OCTOBER 5, 2021

This is some bonafide CSS trickery from Harry that gives you some generic performance advice based on what it sees in your <head> element. From there, Harry gets very clever with selectors, determining problematic situations from the usage and placement of certain tags. It’s a nice little trick.

Performance

Performance Media Software Software

Citrix monitoring with Dynatrace: Easily observe your entire Citrix ecosystem

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Effortlessly monitor your Citrix environment with Dynatrace The Citrix monitoring process now employs two methods to collect metrics and provide complete Citrix performance observability. This includes end-user performance when logging in and establishing a session, as well as response times. Now, it’s available to all customers.

Monitoring

Monitoring Healthcare Infrastructure Metrics

Handling Multiple Browser Windows and Tabs in Selenium PHP

DZone

JUNE 22, 2022

One of the common scenarios in a web application (or a web app) is opening up a new browser window (or tab) once the user performs a specific activity. Many web developers use the HTML tag ‘__blank’ that informs the browser to open a new window (or tab, depending on the user’s set preference) when a link is clicked.

Website

Website Performance Development

Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You may have a lean, agile, responsive site design only to find it gradually loaded down with more and more “extras” that are often put onto the site by marketing departments or business leaders who are not always thinking about website performance. Measuring Performance Impact. You cannot always anticipate what you cannot control.

Website

Website Design Network Best Practices

An Opinionated Guide to Performance Budgets

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Performance budgets are one of those ideas that everyone gets behind conceptually, but then are challenged to put into practice – and for very good reason. If you're just getting started with performance budgets – or if you've been using them for a while and want to validate your work – this post is for you.

Performance

Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google

Deployment challenges with large enterprise systems

Dynatrace

APRIL 24, 2019

This is when tagging comes to the rescue! Automated Tagging. Tagging is a very powerful way to identify components. Sadly, many companies want to use tags but don’t really have a companywide naming standard. With manual tags, there is no validation. Anyone can really add tags without considering the big picture.

Systems

Systems Tuning C++ Processing

Dynatrace strengthens container security across popular cloud-based registries

Tutorial: Guide to automated SRE-driven performance engineering

Trending Sources

IT Operations: A Use Case in the 2023 Gartner Critical Capabilities for Application Performance Monitoring and Observability

Preload, prefetch and other link tags

Understanding the performance impact of anti-flicker snippets

Dynatrace leverages new AWS Lambda extensions for seamless end-to-end observability

Getting Your `head` Straight: A New CSS Performance Diagnostics Snippet

Alice Boxhall for W3C TAG

ct.css — Performance Hints via Injected Stylesheet Alone

The Future of Performance Testing

A Complete Guide to Performance Budgets

Machine Learning for Fraud Detection in Streaming Services

Oracle SQL Performance Plan Review Automation

Dynatrace supports Amazon Linux 2023 as an AWS launch partner

A look at the GigaOm 2024 Radar for Cloud Observability

Web Performance for Product Managers

Dynatrace Managed release notes version 1.234

Benchmark (YCSB) numbers for Redis, MongoDB, Couchbase2, Yugabyte and BangDB

Boost application performance with improved CPU analysis across all your deep-monitored workloads

Easily change OneAgent metadata, host name, and monitoring mode

CSS and Network Performance

Optimize mobile app performance, adoption, and conversions with Session Replay and business analytics

Using JSONB in PostgreSQL: How to Effectively Store & Index JSON Data in PostgreSQL

The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024

Manage dashboards more efficiently with more control with the JSON editor

Answer-driven release validation with Dynatrace SaaS Cloud Automation

Advancing Application Performance with NVMe Storage, Part 1

The Three Types of Performance Testing

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Dynatrace extends contextual analytics and AIOps for open observability

The platform engineer role: A game-changer or just hype?

Dynatrace for AWS Compute Optimizer

Measuring the importance of data quality to causal AI success

Supporting Disaster Recovery with Dynatrace at NYCM

Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Fight For The Main Thread

Enhanced root cause analysis using events

Dynatrace Support for AWS Lambda Functions Powered by x86 and AWS Graviton2

ct.css — Performance Hints via Injected Stylesheet Alone

Citrix monitoring with Dynatrace: Easily observe your entire Citrix ecosystem

Handling Multiple Browser Windows and Tabs in Selenium PHP

Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties

An Opinionated Guide to Performance Budgets

Deployment challenges with large enterprise systems

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