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The Dynatrace journey toward DORA compliance

Dynatrace

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) looms large on the horizon, casting its regulatory shadow over financial institutions. DORA is a European Union (EU) regulation that took effect on January 16, 2023, with full implementation starting January 17, 2025. DORA aims to bolster the IT security of financial entities such as banks, insurance companies, and investment firms.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Why is it that Google, a company once known for its distinctive “Do no evil” guideline, is now facing the same charges of “surveillance capitalism” as Facebook, a company that never made such claims? Why is it now subject to the same kind of antitrust complaints faced by Microsoft, once the “evil empire” of the previous generation of computing? Why is it that Amazon, which has positioned itself as “the most customer-centric company on the planet,” now lards its search results with advertisements

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QCon London: Meta Used Monolithic Architecture to Ship Threads in Only Five Months

InfoQ

Zahan Malkani talked during QCon London 2024 about Meta’s journey from identifying the opportunity in the market to shipping the Threads application only five months later. The company leveraged Instagram's existing monolithic architecture and quickly iterated to create a new text-first microblogging service in record time.

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Five ways cookie consent managers hurt web performance (and how to fix them)

Speed Curve

I've been spending a lot of time looking at the performance of European sites lately, and have found that the consent management platforms (CMPs) are consistently creating a bit of a false reality for folks when trying to understand performance using synthetic monitoring. Admittedly, this is not a new topic, but I feel that it's important enough that it warrants another PSA.

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Percona Stands Firmly on the Side of Open Source

Percona

Percona is proud to formally state our support for the Valkey project and its community. We will soon offer commercial support for the open source Redis alternative, Valkey.The world of open source is no stranger to controversy.

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Unlock seamless access: The power of flexible identity federation

Dynatrace

With the introduction of Flexible Identity Federation, Dynatrace gives its enterprise customers additional options that offer enhanced granularity to match their more complex scenarios. Scaling with Flexible Identity Federation Identity federation plays a critical role in modern IT infrastructure, serving as a foundational component that enables seamless, secure access to various systems and applications across different domains and platforms.

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QCon London: Lessons Learned From Building LinkedIn’s AI/ML Data Platform

InfoQ

At the QCon London 2024 conference, Félix GV from LinkedIn discussed the AI/ML platform powering the company’s products. He specifically delved into Venice DB, the NoSQL data store used for feature persistence. The presenter shared the lessons learned from evolving and operating the platform, including cluster management and library versioning.

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Protect Your PostgreSQL Database with pg_tde: Safe and Secure

Percona

Tech Preview release of pg_tde now availableAs organizations collect, store, and analyze vast amounts of data, ensuring its confidentiality and integrity becomes a top priority. For PostgreSQL users, the tech preview release availability of the new encryption extension pg_tde delivers unmatched protection for vital data assets.What is pg_tde?

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Quality Assurance, Errors, and AI

O'Reilly

A recent article in Fast Company makes the claim “ Thanks to AI, the Coder is no longer King. All Hail the QA Engineer.” It’s worth reading, and its argument is probably correct. Generative AI will be used to create more and more software; AI makes mistakes and it’s difficult to foresee a future in which it doesn’t; therefore, if we want software that works, Quality Assurance teams will rise in importance.

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Automate your work with unified observability and custom solutions

Dynatrace

In this blog post, we explore real-life scenarios shared by our customers, partners, and internal users at Dynatrace, offering inspiration to kickstart your own journey with custom solutions powered by AppEngine. For many, the driving force behind custom solution development is today’s dynamic and rapidly evolving digital landscape, in which organizations find themselves in a race to automate repetitive tasks, drive data-backed decisions, and do more with less.

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Presentation: Several Components are Rendering: Client Performance at Slack-Scale

InfoQ

Jenna Zeigen discusses front-end performance issues encountered by Slack as they continue to grow and evolve the desktop app.

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Hands-on Gemini 1.5 Pro with AI Studio: Images, Video, Text & Code

Addy Osmani

Let's talk about Gemini 1.5 Pro and practical examples of what it can do. It's a mid-size multimodal model, optimized to scale across a wide range of tasks involving text, images, videos, audio, and even code. I’ll cover all of these today. The real difference here is the model's long-context window, capable of processing up to a whopping 1 million tokens in production.

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JSON_TABLE() Will Be in PostgreSQL 17

Percona

JSON_TABLE() will be in PostgreSQL 17! It almost made it two years ago but was yanked away at the last minute. We will get it shortly when PostgreSQL 17 is officially released this year! Please see this.Why is this important?JSON has become the data interchange format of choice for most developers.

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Deploying Percona Everest on GCP with Kubectl for Windows 11 Users

Percona Community

Welcome to this blog post! Today, our primary goal is to guide you through deploying Percona Everest on GCP using Kubectl, specifically for users on Windows 11. It’s been some time since I last used Windows, so this will be an excellent opportunity to do it from scratch. Let me tell you a little bit about Percona Everest. You may have already heard it recently.

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Dynatrace completed Data Privacy Framework self-certification

Dynatrace

In trans-Atlantic and global business relationships, the privacy frameworks and regulations in various regions must be aligned to allow efficient collaboration between enterprises and other involved institutions. To enable participating organizations to meet the EU requirements for transferring personal data to the U.S., the Data Privacy Framework (DPF) is designed to serve as an adequate data transfer mechanism under the GDPR.

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Presentation: Effective Performance Engineering at Twitter-Scale

InfoQ

Yao Yue recapitulates scaling a project at Twitter while summarizing some key lessons learned about effective performance engineering.

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Performance Testing VS Load Testing

Abstracta

Load Test vs. Stress Test. This is one of the most frequent topics that people look at when developing a performance testing strategy. But, in fact, it doesn’t make sense to compare performance testing vs load testing as if they were competitors. Yet, understanding the. The post Performance Testing VS Load Testing appeared first on Abstracta Software Testing Services.

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How to Improve Database Performance: The Ultimate Guide

Percona

Welcome to the ultimate guide on how to boost your database performance! We’ve designed it to help you understand and improve the performance of your databases, regardless of your level of experience as a DBA or whether you manage databases for a small or large company.

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Top 10 WordPress Development Companies in the United States

Official Blog - World Web Technology

Identifying the WordPress development company in the United States that is the ideal match for your project may be a challenging endeavor due to the vast number of options available. As there is such a wide variety of choices accessible, ranging from independent contractors to well-established organizations, it is essential to make an educated selection that is in accordance with your particular requirements and goals.

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Protecting critical infrastructure and services: Ensure efficient, accurate information delivery this election year

Dynatrace

Government agencies aim to meet their citizens’ needs as efficiently and effectively as possible to ensure maximum impact from every tax dollar invested. As part of this mission, there is a drive to digitize services across all areas of government so citizens can meet their own needs faster and with greater convenience. To address this, state and local governments are adopting multicloud environments to achieve the necessary speed, scale, and agility to keep up with faster digital transformation

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Allegro Reduces Kafka Producer Latency Outliers by 82% After Switching to XFS

InfoQ

Allegro experimented with different performance optimization options to improve Apache Kafka producer tail latency and eventually switched all its clusters to the XFS filesystem. The company used Kafka protocol sniffing, JVM profiling, and eBPF, which proved instrumental in identifying and eliminating performance bottlenecks.

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Performance Hero: Paul Calvano

Speed Curve

Celebrating performance wins is critical to a healthy, well-supported, high-performing team. This isn't a new idea. In fact, it's something that started in the early days of web performance when Lara Hogan , who was an engineering manager at Etsy at the time, discussed the practice of empowering people across the organization by celebrating 'performance heroes'.

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MongoDB 4.4 EOL with 5.0 Not Far Behind

Percona

February 2024 marked the end of life (EOL) of MongoDB 4.4.Another year, another EOL, is a fitting summary. Time goes by fast, and looking from this perspective, 5.0 is one we will soon also say goodbye to, as this year, 5.0 is also going EOL in October.Why is MongoDB 4.4 EOL significant?

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API Performance Testing Types: Load Testing

Abstracta

Join us as we delve into the scope of API load testing. In this article, we explore how to simulate real-world conditions, tackle testing challenges, choose the right performance testing tools, and interpret results for performance optimization. Enhance your API’s readiness for diverse load scenarios. The post API Performance Testing Types: Load Testing appeared first on Abstracta Software Testing Services.

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Enable full observability for Linux on IBM Z mainframe now with logs

Dynatrace

Mainframe is a strong choice for hybrid cloud, but it brings observability challenges IBM Z is a mainframe computing platform chosen by many organizations with a hybrid cloud strategy because of its security, resiliency, performance, scalability, and sustainability. With the availability of Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE, the IBM Z platform brings a familiar host operating system and sustainability that could yield up to 75% energy reduction compared to x86 servers.

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QCon London: How Duolingo Sent 4 Million Push Notifications in 6 Seconds During the Super Bowl Break

InfoQ

As part of the Super Bowl marketing campaign, Duolingo sent out 4 million mobile push notifications when the company’s five-second ad aired during the commercial break. At QCon London, Doulingo’s engineers presented the asynchronous AWS architecture responsible for broadcasting messages to millions of users across seven US cities.

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Fun with Linux memory

n0derunner

How to use some of Linux’s standard tools and how different types of memory usage shows up. Examples of using malloc and writing to memory with three use-cases for a simple process In each case we run the example with a 64MB allocation so that we can see the usage from standard linux tools. We … The post Fun with Linux memory appeared first on n0derunner.

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Why MariaDB Is “Better” Than MySQL

Percona

Apples or oranges?Tea or coffee?Books or eBooks?Each of these comparisons has very similar features and serves many of the same purposes, but in the end, they are different choices people make. Do you know what else belongs on this list?MariaDB or MySQL?

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Release Roundup April 17, 2024

Percona Community

Percona software releases and updates April 2 - April 17, 2024. Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Percona software is designed for peak performance, uncompromised security, limitless scalability, and disaster-proofed availability.

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Shift right in software development: Adapting observability for a seamless development experience

Dynatrace

In all seriousness, the shift-left mantra has shaken things up quite a bit in the tech industry, bringing a paradigm shift in how we approach software development. The shift-left approach aims to ensure bugs and other issues are discovered and addressed early in the development process, leading to improved software quality and lower costs associated with late-stage troubleshooting.

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QCon London: Scaling Microservices Architecture and Technology Organization at Trainline

InfoQ

During the recent QCon London conference, Trainline’s CTO spoke about the evolution of the company’s system architecture and organizational structure over the last five years. The company had to adapt to market changes and growing customer expectations by improving the performance and reliability of its technology platform.

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SQL Performance Tuning tips for newbies

SQL Shack

The purpose of this article is to give newbies some basic advice about SQL performance tuning that helps to improve their query tuning skills in SQL Server.

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Ask Me Anything About MySQL 5.7 to 8.0 Post EOL

Percona

We met with Vinicius Grippa, a Senior Support Engineer at Percona. He is also active in the open source community and was recognized as a MySQL Rock Star in 2023.In the previous interview with Vinicius, we discussed the upcoming End of Life (EOL) for MySQL 5.7. Now that MySQL 5.

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Managing risk for financial services: The secret to visibility and control during times of volatility

Dynatrace

In the ever-shifting landscape of financial markets that makes managing risk a pressing challenge, banks are facing significant turbulence. Macroeconomic trends are unfolding under a backdrop of geopolitical conflict. Firms are facing higher funding costs and softening demand due to rising interest rates. Labor trends and supply chains are unpredictable.

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How observability, application security, and AI enhance DevOps and platform engineering maturity

Dynatrace

DevOps and platform engineering are essential disciplines that provide immense value in the realm of cloud-native technology and software delivery. However, these practices cannot stand alone. Rather, they must be bolstered by additional technological investments to ensure reliability, security, and efficiency. One of these key investments includes observability.

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Dynatrace SaaS release notes version 1.289

Dynatrace

We have released Dynatrace version 1.289. To learn what’s new, have a look at the release notes. The post Dynatrace SaaS release notes version 1.289 appeared first on Dynatrace news.

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Beyond uptime: Unveiling the improved Dynatrace SLA

Dynatrace

To help our customers confidently navigate the complexities of the cloud and innovate faster and more securely, the Dynatrace platform must be delivered reliably. Service Level Agreements (SLA) bridge your business objectives with our commitment to excellence. To transparently manage expectations and maintain trust with our customers, we expanded the Dynatrace SLA beyond accessing the user interface to cover the full range of relevant product categories, such as processing and retaining incoming

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