NoSQL or Traditional Database: From an APM Perspective There Isn’t Really...
Traditional Enterprise Database vendors often bring up the lack of professional monitoring and management tool support for NoSQL solutions. Their argument is that enterprise applications require...
View ArticleCloud Expo and QCon next week in San Francisco
It’s time for Cloud Expo and QCon again! This time I will give two presentations at Cloud Expo and one on QCon. On Monday the 5th of November, the opening day of Cloud Expo, I will explain how to do...
View ArticleTop 8 Application Performance Landmines
Update October 2014: Follow the best practices discussed in this blog by downloading dynaTrace 30 Day Free Trial. We have been blogging about the same problems and problem patterns we see while working...
View ArticleAPM as a Service: 4 Steps to Monitor Real User Experience in Production
With our new service platform and the convergence of dynaTrace PurePath Technology with the Gomez Performance Network, we are proud to offer an APMaaS solution that sets a higher bar for complete user...
View ArticleDeep Insight and Collaboration in the Cloud: A Customer Story
Recently, one of our customers, let’s call him PointInFact, had a very typical problem. After deploying a new version of its software, some user requests degraded horribly. Requests that should have...
View ArticleThe Problem With Cloud SLAs
Service Level Agreements (SLAs) offered by cloud providers are too often about Specification and not Service. It should come as no surprise that vanity metrics, like Availability, are used instead of...
View ArticleDoes Performance in the Cloud Matter?
Note: Scott Turner and his team from Verizon Terremark performed the tests on the Terremark Cloud Platform and other public clouds. Scott can be reached at scott.turner@verizon.com One of the most...
View ArticleHow to get Visibility into Docker Clusters running Kubernetes
Google officially launched today the final version of their cluster manager project Kubernetes, which treats Docker containers as first-class citizens. In this blog post, I will show you how you can...
View ArticleNetwork Virtualization and the Software Defined Data Center
I was recently having a discussion with one of my clients about the concept of network virtualization. During the conversation, in attempting to explain the business case, I referred to data center...
View ArticleNetwork Virtualization and the Software Defined Data Center: Part 2
In last week’s post about Network Virtualization and the Software Defined Data Center, I pointed out that whatever approach you choose to take towards your modern data center network – SDN, NFV, a...
View ArticleDevOps News Live from DevOpsDays Berlin 2015: Day 1
This year I was invited to present at DevOpsDays Berlin, the most-awaited DevOps gathering in Central Europe. A two-day event, it is informative, delivers insights from industry thought leaders, and is...
View ArticleDevOps News Live from DevOpsDays Berlin 2015: Day 2
One of the best things about the end of Day 1 at DevOpsDays is there’s Day 2 right around the corner! Here is a summary of DevOpsDays Berlin 2015, Day 2 from my perspective. “Debugging your...
View ArticleNoSQL or Traditional Database: From an APM Perspective There Isn’t Really...
Traditional Enterprise Database vendors often bring up the lack of professional monitoring and management tool support for NoSQL solutions. Their argument is that enterprise applications require...
View ArticleCloud Expo and QCon next week in San Francisco
It’s time for Cloud Expo and QCon again! This time I will give two presentations at Cloud Expo and one on QCon. On Monday the 5th of November, the opening day of Cloud Expo, I will explain how to do...
View ArticleLast-Minute Black Friday Rescue & Cyber Monday Readiness
In order to be ready for Christmas season, online retailers typically bring their shops into shape right before Black Friday. Together with Cyber Monday this is the most important day in the retailer’s...
View ArticleFull-stack Docker performance monitoring: From containers to applications
Docker containerization is increasingly being used in production environments. How can these environments best be monitored? Monitoring Docker containers as if they are lightweight virtual machines...
View ArticleMonitoring is key to Docker success in production
Recently O’Reilly and Dynatrace Ruxit conducted a survey about the container and Docker ecosystem. The goal of the survey was to understand technology adoption across the lifecycle. Besides offering...
View ArticleDynatrace newsletter: Awards and industry recognition; plus user-behavior...
Welcome to the February Ruxit newsletter! Ruxit received awards from TechTarget and IT Central Station last week! We’re excited to share the details with you! TechTarget names Ruxit ‘Best DevOps Tool’...
View ArticleDynatrace newsletter: Network monitoring for DevOps & database error analysis!
Welcome to the February Dynatrace Ruxit newsletter! Our team has been researching monitoring challenges for DevOps teams, and we’re excited to share the findings with you! 3 levels of network...
View ArticleDoes your Liquid Infrastructure float? Or are you sinking in what you don’t...
With so many new web technologies available, one might assume that things are getting easier for the average Operations-minded DevOps professional, but they aren’t. In fact, things are becoming more...
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