Dynatrace

APRIL 17, 2024

Perform is our company’s event once a year in Las Vegas, where our customers and partners visit us to learn more about our product and industry. It was not my first time in Las Vegas. Getting my hands dirty: Hands-on training at Perform I was invited to join Perform to help host one of the HOT classes two days before the main conference event.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Then after being introduced to the “World Wide Web” and new types of businesses and marketing opportunities, she shifted her career course to focus on technology. The ‘Women in Tech’ panel at Dynatrace Perform 2024. Rather than accepting a closed door to opportunity, Mishra said, the lack of inclusion became motivation for her.

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DZone

OCTOBER 26, 2023

It also allows for some advanced features, such as problem prediction. My first encounter with this monitoring system was in 2014 when I joined a project where Zabbix was already in use for monitoring network devices (routers, switches). Back then, it was version 2.2, and it had a somewhat challenging web interface, even for that time.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The World Has Changed, and We Need To Adapt The world has gone through a tremendous transformation in the last fifteen years. Cloud and microservices changed the world. Previously, our application was using one database; developers knew how it worked, and the deployment rarely happened. Fifteen years later, everything is different.

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DZone

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Your team celebrates a success story where a trace identified a pesky latency issue in your application's authentication service. A fix was swiftly implemented, and we all celebrated a quick win in the next team meeting. But the celebrations are short-lived. Just days later, user complaints surged about a related payment gateway timeout.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

What I have seen is a maturing of the online retail channels when it comes to delivering customer experiences. What was once an onslaught of consumer traffic between Black Friday and Cyber Monday has turned into a weeklong event, with most retailers offering deals well ahead of Black Friday. This video (below) illustrates my experience.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 7, 2024

Strategically selected for its unparalleled visibility within the enterprise landscape, the São Paulo Grand Prix represented a crucial chance to engage with existing customers and enterprise prospects who were actively participating in the event.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 26, 2024

As we grow, it’s vital to hold onto our essence and protect our core while adapting to change. Through our MPV, we created a shared understanding of Dynatrace’s differentiation in the market and the value we deliver to our customers and the world.

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DZone

JULY 25, 2023

When we arrived at the office that first day, he helped me to a nearby desk supporting a Compaq Portable computer. On top of the system was a book focused on using dBase II. My job was to build an application to track orders for his company. My uncle knew I had an interest in computers, and I couldn’t wait to get started.

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DZone

JULY 8, 2023

However, to make Istio manage a network of multicloud applications, Envoy was configured as a sidecar proxy for handling north-south traffic (traffic in and out of data centers). It was observed that application developers found it difficult to configure Envoy proxy as an API gateway and ingress controller.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Docker Extensions was announced as a beta at DockerCon 2022. Docker Extensions became generally available in January 2023. Developing performance tools' related extensions was on my to-do list for a long time. Due to my master's degree, I couldn't spend time learning Docker Extensions SDK.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This innovative approach enhances the understanding of user journeys through compelling visuals, setting the standard for future app developments. The User Flow Analytics app was created to address real-life business challenges. ” — Andrea Caria, observability solution analyst at Spindox.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 19, 2024

Let’s explore some real-life custom solution examples that leverage the power of the Dynatrace core platform technologies to go beyond observability. They needed a way to automatically calculate the disk resizing point and the target disk size to trigger the resizing operation.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In the past, all security “wisdom” was owned by security teams alone. Business and app owners could only dream of having continuous visibility into their application’s health from both the availability and security standpoint. One of your peers mentions a recent vulnerability that was hard to map and assess in production.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Kerberos is a secure authentication protocol for networked systems. It was developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and was first released in the 1980s. The protocol provides secure authentication of users and services, allowing them to communicate over an insecure network such as the Internet.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2024

Each of these errors is a canceled request resulting in a retry so this reduction further reduces overall service traffic by this rate: Errors rates per second. These periodic refreshes of on-heap data are great at taking G1 by surprise, resulting in pause time outliers well beyond the default pause time goal.

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DZone

JANUARY 29, 2024

Unfortunately, the choices being made have a great impact on both your business, your budgets, and the ultimate success of your cloud-native initiatives that hasty decisions upfront lead to big headaches very quickly down the road. In the previous introduction , we looked at the problem facing everyone with cloud-native observability.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The mystery begins Towards the end of 2017, I was on a conference call to discuss an issue with the Netflix application on a new set top box. The box was a new Android TV device with 4k playback, based on Android Open Source Project (AOSP) version 5.0, aka “Lollipop”. The stuttering was caused by buffer starvation in the device audio pipeline.

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DZone

JUNE 20, 2023

Platform engineers also need to test their Kubernetes infrastructure and manifests and often resort to using dedicated cloud environments to do so, which can be quite expensive. What was needed was a way to get as close as possible to a cloud-based managed cluster on a laptop.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

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. We used this simulation to help us surface problems of scale and validate our Ads algorithms. Basic with ads was launched worldwide on November 3rd. Keep an eye out for updates on this.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Clair began her demonstration of the app with the following scenario: She receives a Slack alert that an anomaly was detected and there has been unauthorized access to a Kubernetes cluster monitored via OneAgent. To begin, St. Clair filtered the alert for a time window of a couple of hours to focus her analysis. Clair’s hypothesis began to change.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 28, 2024

Lest readers believe that business digital transformation has fallen out of fashion, recent data suggests that digital transformation initiatives are still high on the agenda for today’s leaders. Business digital transformation and modernization are enduring objectives, despite the rise of generative AI as a priority over the past year.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Data at your fingertips Say you would like to focus on a specific Kubernetes workload called “adservice.” Dynatrace allows you to easily pull up that entity and understand key context such as metadata, where it’s running, when there was a deployment, and more. How do you know if this problem has business impact?

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 31, 2023

For many teams, this isn’t something they have to imagine—it’s something they experience regularly. For one major European financial services company, this was their reality prior to adopting Dynatrace Application Security. The impact on their staff and bottom line was the wake-up call they needed to adapt their security approach.

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Percona

APRIL 30, 2024

For me, the Redis story starts with… Memcached. Back in the early 2000s, “Web 2.0” ” was being built following the aftermath of the dot-com crash. The open source LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP/Perl/Python) stack was all the rage.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Add alerts to flag when late arriving data appears, block the pipelines, and perform a manual intervention where we triggered backfill pipelines to handle the missed events. This approach was a simple solution with minimal extra processing for the most part and, hence, was our preferred solution. We will talk about this shortly.

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Brendan Gregg

MARCH 9, 2024

(If you are new to eBPF, it is the name of a kernel execution engine that runs a variety of new programs in a performant and safe sandbox in the kernel, like how JavaScript can run programs safely in a browser sandbox; it is also no longer an acronym.) It was then I realized that we had missed lunch! " If they get merged??

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Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

Roger cited two other reasons for this change: The desire to outperform Intel's icc compiler, and the belief that it didn't break debuggers (of the time) since they supported other stack walking techniques. For a while I was promoting the use of Canonical's libc6-prof, which was libc6 with frame pointers.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

In May 2023 the critical vulnerability CVE-2020-36641 in the Java library aXMLRPC was published in the National Vulnerability Database (NVD). aXMLRPC is a lightweight client XML-RPC client enabling users to make remote procedure calls over the HTTP protocol in an XML format. and higher are still exploitable as we will demonstrate.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In earlier days, it was easy to deduct and debug a problem in monolithic applications because there was only one service running in the back end and front end. Now, we are moving toward microservices architecture, where applications are divided into multiple independently deployable services. These services have their own goal and logic to serve.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 27, 2023

As we investigated the alerting delay, we found that the number of configured alerts had recently increased dramatically, by 5 times! The alerting system queried Atlas , our time series database on a cron for each configured alert query, and was seeing an elevated throttle rate and excessive retries with backoffs.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Separately, our invention of Dynamically Optimized ( DO ) encoding helps achieve optimized bitrate-quality tradeoffs depending on the complexity of the content. HDR was launched at Netflix in 2016 and the number of titles available in HDR has been growing ever since. We started backfilling HDR-DO encodes for existing titles from Q2 2022.

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DZone

DECEMBER 18, 2021

In this blog, we are going to learn about memory leaks occurring in SOLR QueryResultCache, how the RCA was carried out, and the solution given to resolve the issue. In the application under test, SOLR was used as a component to store, search, and retrieve the contents. was used in this application.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2024

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. Data Privacy Framework Program (The EU-U.S. DPF, UK Extension to the EU-U.S. DPF, and Swiss-U.S.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Engineers from across the company came together to share best practices on everything from Data Processing Patterns to Building Reliable Data Pipelines. The result was a series of talks which we are now sharing with the rest of the Data Engineering community!

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DZone

AUGUST 4, 2022

For the longest time, hosting static files on CDNs was the de facto standard for performance tuning website pages. The host offered browser caching advantages, better stability, and storage on fast edge servers across strategic geolocations. Not only did it have performance benefits, but it was also convenient for developers.

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DZone

JULY 14, 2021

Before we dive into Selenium 4, let’s have a brief introduction to its previous versions. Selenium 1 was declared as the free open source automation testing framework in the year 2004 consisting of selenium IDE, RC, and web driver. Whereas, the Selenium 2 released in 2011 consisted of the IDE, Web driver, and Grid.

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