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PurePerformanceAn Inside Look into Platform Engineering for Architects with the authors Max, Hilliary & AndiIn the ever-changing IT world, creating content that stays relevant for long is hard. One of the objectives of "Platform Engineering for Architects: Crafting Modern Platforms as a Product" was to stay timeless by providing practical examples of use cases not necessarily tied to current technology trends.The book focuses on the importance of building a platform with a purpose, making the impact measurable, and ensuring the platform continuously evolves by continuously including the end users (the engineering teams) in the evolution of the platform.Tune in to this episode and hear from Max Körbächer (Founder of...
2025-03-1759 min
PurePerformanceWhy Compliance is Important and not Boring with Michiel de LepperThe word "Compliance" reminds many about mandatory training or audits. Two things not everyone gets excited about!Tune in and meet Michiel de Lepper who has spent most of his career in Security and Compliance. He gives us a different perspective on the importance of compliance, why it exists, how it intertwines with security and threat detection, what it has to do with security posture management and why he thinks its one of the most exciting things in IT!Links we discussed:Michiel's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/madelepper/Blog posts on security and...
2025-02-1750 min
PurePerformanceWhat's next for Feature Flagging and OpenFeature with Ben RometschFeature Flagging - some may call them "glorified if-statements" - has been a development practice for decades. But have we reached a stage where organizations are doing "Feature Flag-Driven Development?". After all it took years to establish a test-driven development culture despite having great tools and frameworks available!To learn more we invited Ben Rometsch, Co-Founder of Flagsmith, to chat about the history, state and future of Feature Flagging. He is giving us an update on where the market is heading, how the CNCF project OpenFeature and its community is driving best practices, what the role of AI might...
2025-02-0350 min
PurePerformanceObservability Predictions 2025 Under the Covers with Bernd GreifenederTo predict the future, it's important to know the past. And that is true for Bernd Greifeneder, Founder and CTO of Dynatrace, who has been driving innovation in the observability and security since he founded Dynatrace 20 years ago!Bernd agreed to sit down, look behind the covers and answer the open questions that people posted on his LinkedIn in response to his recent observability prediction blog. Tune in and learn about Bernd's though on the evaluation from reactive to preventive operations, who is behind the convergence of observability & security, why observability can help those that have serious i...
2025-01-2047 min
PurePerformanceFrom Infra to Services to Happy End Users: The role of SLOs at Uber with Vishnu AcharyaeBay, Yahoo, Netflix and then 10+ years at Uber. In this episode we sit down with Vishnu Acharya, Head of Network Infrastructure EMEA and Platform Engineering at Uber. Vishnu shares how Uber has scaled over the years to about 4000 engineers and how his team makes sure that infrastructure and platform engineering scales with the growing company and the growing demand on their digital services.Tune in and learn about how Vishnu thinks about SLOs across all layers of the stack, how they manage to get better insights with their cloud providers and why its important to have an end-to-end understanding...
2025-01-0650 min
PurePerformanceThe Road to OpenTelemetry Adoption at Booking with Anton TimofieievFor the past 10 years Anton has been working at Booking.com - one of the leading digital travel companies based out of Amsterdam. The journey that started as System Administrator has led Anton to be an Engineering Manager for Site Reliability where over the past 3 years he led the rollout and adoption of OpenTelemetry as the standard for getting observability into new cloud native deployments.Tune in and learn how Anton saw R&D grow from 300 to 2000, why they replaced their home-grown Perl-based Observability Framework with OpenTelemetry, how they tackle adoption challenges and how they extend and contribute back...
2024-12-2353 min
PurePerformanceWhy Security and Compliance must not be a showstopper for SaaS with Milan SteskalMost services are moving to SaaS - whether it’s email, collaboration, customer relations, or finance. But not everyone can go to SaaS - or at least that’s the initial reaction when navigating certain industries’ rules and regulations.Milan Steskal - who worked in healthcare for many years - is now helping organizations ask the right questions and find the best solutions as they evaluate their options to move their observability data to SaaS. Tune in and learn about the questions to ask vendors and your internal security, privacy, and compliance teams. Milan also walks us through the capabi...
2024-12-0952 min
PurePerformanceEvery Byte Counts: Web Performance Flashback with Andreas TaranetzAndreas Taranetz is a software engineer and lecturer at the University of Vienna. He creates a lot of educational content around Web Performance Optimization. For the past seven years, he has also operated Wahlkabine, Austria's top website, for matching one's political views with the parties that are up for election.This episode was an amazing flashback - reminding us about the time when Steve Souders - the "godfather" of Web Performance Optimization - educated web developers about optimizing CSS, JavaScript, and server-side roundtrips.Tune in and learn why Web Performance is still such an important topic, how it...
2024-11-2551 min
PurePerformanceThe Security and Resiliency Challenges of Cloud Native Authorization with Alex OlivierAuthentication (validating who you claim to be) and Authorization (enforcing what you are allowed to do) are critical in modern software development. While authentication seems to be a solved problem, modern software development faces many challenges with secure, fast, and resilient authorization mechanisms. To learn more about those challenges, we invited Alex Olivier, Co-Founder and CPO at Cerbos, an Open Source Scalable Authorization Solution. Alex shared insights on attribute-based vs. role-based access Control, the difference between stateful and stateless authorization implementations, why Broken Access Control is in the OWASP Top 10 Security Vulnerabilities, and how to observe the authorization solution for...
2024-11-1152 min
PurePerformanceOpen Source: Why its the Best Thing that happened to IT with Marcio LenaOpen Source is the Best Thing that happened to IT"! Powerful words from Marcio Lena who has been using and contributing back to open source for the past 20+ years. Besides being a vivid advocate for open source, Marcio also knows the concerns of large enterprises when picking open source projects.Tune in and follow our discussion about how to identify a healthy open-source project, how to balance between vendor and community lock-in, the power of open standards such as OpenTelemetry, open source business models as well as that contributing to open source is not limited to code but includes d...
2024-10-281h 04
PurePerformanceUnderstanding DORA - Europe's Digital Operational Resiliency Act with Kay YoungDORA - the EU's Digital Operational Resiliency Act - will take effect in January of 2025 and is currently top of mind for IT Leaders across all financial service institutions that operate in the European Union. But what is DORA really? Why is this important? How can institutions meet the DORA requirements? What is the role of observability, automation and AI in all of this?To answer all those and more questions we invited Kay Young, Sr Principal Product Manager at Dynatrace, who has been working with organizations around the globe that have been tasked to implement regulations such as DORA, G...
2024-10-1430 min
PurePerformanceLessons learned when building the NAIS Platform with Hans Kristian FlaattenNAIS (pronounced like NICE) is a team central application platform that provides DevOps teams with the tools they need build, test, deploy, run and observe applications.In this episode Hans Kristian Flaatten, Platform Engineer at NAV, walks us through the WHYs, HOWs and challenges of building modern platforms on Kubernetes. Tune in and hear WHY they defined their own abstraction layer for applications, HOW developers benefit from that platform and WHY they developed their developer portal instead of going with other popular available choices.Links we discussed:Hans Kristian's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hansflaatten/
2024-09-3049 min
PurePerformanceWhy Developer Observability is not a tooling problem with Viktor Farcic"We will overwhelm developers if we give them the same specialized observability, security or deployment tools that are used by their platform engineering, operations, SREs or security teams!" - says Viktor Farcic, Developer Advocate at UpBound and host of The DevOps Toolkit YouTube channel. Tune in and hear us discuss about making observability easier accessible for developers, what Viktor doesn't like about Kubernetes and how Crossplane - the cloud native control plane framework - can be the gateway to real product-oriented platform engineering!Here the links we discussed during this episode:Viktor on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in...
2024-09-1658 min
PurePerformancePitfalls to avoid when going all-in on OpenTelemetry with Hans Kristian FlaattenHans Kristian is a Platform Engineer for NAV's Kubernetes Platform Nais hosting Norway's wellfare services. With 10 years on Kubernetes, 2000 apps and 1000 developers across more than 100 teams there was a need to make OpenTelemetry adoption as easy as possible.Tune in as we hear from Hans Kristian who is also a CNCF Ambassador and hosts Cloud Native Day Bergen why OpenTelemetry is chosen by the public sector, why it took much longer to adopt, which challenges they had to scale the observability backend and how they are tackling the "noisy data problem"Links we discussed in the episodeFollow H...
2024-09-0255 min
PurePerformanceSo you think you should Serverless? Things to know before you do with Sebastian Vietz!Has one of the decision makers in your organization decided that you have to go "all in on technology X" because they saw a great presentation at a conference or got a great sales pitch from a vendor? If that is the case then this episode is for you and you should forward it to those decision makers.Sebastian Vietz, Director of Reliability Engineering and Host of the Reliability Enablers Podcast, shares his thoughts on considerations when picking a technology like Serverless. We discuss the importance of knowing limits, best fit architectural patterns and things that should influence your...
2024-08-261h 01
PurePerformanceObservability that is Battle tested by Millions with Marco Sussitz and Wolfgang ZieglerWhen your code runs on more than 6 million systems - many of them business critical - then this is really exciting news for Marco and Wolfgang, Dynatrace OneAgent Java Team members. Their code powers auto-instrumentation and collection of all observability signals of Java based applications running on every possible stack: container in k8s, serverless, VM, on your workstation or even the mainframe.Tune is as we sat down with Marco and Wolfgang to learn what it means to continuously innovate on agent-based instrumentation with 160+ other engineers across the globe that also focus on OneAgent. They share insights on how...
2024-08-1252 min
PurePerformanceUsing Observability to Prioritize CrowdStrike Remediation with Josh WoodWhen thousands of systems show a blue screen - which ones do you fix first to quickly bring up your most critical systems? For that you need to know which systems are impacted, which mission critical applications run on it, and which depending systems are also impacted by something like the recent CrowdStrike incident!We have invited Josh Wood, Principal Solutions Engineer at Dynatrace, who was one of the first responders helping organizations to leverage observability data to identify which systems to fix first to bring critical apps such as ATMs, Self-Service Terminals, POS (Point of Sales), ... back up ag...
2024-08-0538 min
PurePerformanceIs it the time for WebAssembly (Wasm) to take off with Matt ButcherWebAssembly runs in every browser, provides secure and fast code execution from any language, runs across multiple platforms and has a very small binary footprint. It's adopted by several of the big web-based SaaS solutions we use on a daily basis. But where did WebAssembly come from? What problems does it try to solve? Has it reached critical adoption? And how about observing code that gets executed in browsers, servers or embedded devices?To answer all those questions we invited Matt Butcher, CEO at Fermyon, who explains the history, current implementation status, limitations and opportunities that WebAssembly provides.
2024-07-1553 min
PurePerformanceDecrypting software reliability into a plain English with Ash Patel"Because I don't want software to go down every single day in my next gig!" is what drives the motivation of Ash Patel, Reliability Advocate and Podcast host of SREpath, to talk about and educate IT professionals on the importance of building and operating reliable systems.For 15 years Ash used to be Director of Operations at a private health service organization. He has experienced that patients couldn't get the treatment they expected due to unreliable software he was responsible for. In our conversation Ash talks about how he had to close the knowledge gap on technology but also s...
2024-07-0153 min
PurePerformancePlatform Engineering Maturity Model: Reaching 10x Efficiency with Abby Bangser"Meet your users where they are!" - For Platform Engineering Teams that means understanding the current way your engineers work, understand their pain, and provide a solution that doesnt force them to change their behavior but provides a 10x efficiency improvement. Thats not easy to achieve but is what we discussed with Abby Bangser in our latest episodeAbby is a Team Topologies Advocate, has spent years at Thoughtworks helping organizations transform through Delivery Platforms and is now a Lead at the CNCF Platform Working Group. Tune in and hear our discussions on Why Platform Engineering is nothing new, how...
2024-06-1750 min
PurePerformanceHow performance engineering saves the euro cup, holidays and keeps cloud costs low with Almudena VivancoRequesting more CPU for your database used to take 6 months of planning 20 years ago. Now it takes the execution of a Terraform script. What has stayed the same all those years is Almudena Vivanco's passion for performance engineering to keep systems optimized. Ensuring that systems are available, scalable and resilient even during spike events such as the upcoming Euro Cup or any holiday specials.Tune in and hear from Almudena, who is currently working for SCRM Lidl, on how moving to the cloud gave new justification to performance engineering. She explains the importance of connecting business with service level...
2024-06-0349 min
PurePerformanceEducating the next generation of Observability Heroes with Rainer SchuppeMaking observability available to everyone! This noble goal needs superhero powers in an IT world where there is so much chatter and confusion about what observability is, how to sell the value add besides a glorified troubleshooting tool and how OpenTelemetry will disrupt the landscape.In our latest episode we have Rainer Schuppe, Observability Veteran (more than 20+ years in the space), who has worked for the majority of the observability vendors. He is sharing his observability expertise through workshops in his home town of Mallorca. Teaching organizations from basic to strategic observability implementations.Tune in and learn about t...
2024-05-2052 min
PurePerformanceeBPF and the Superpowers it unleashes with Liz RiceeBPF is a kernel technology enabling high-performance, low overhead tools for networking, security and observability. In simpler terms: eBPF makes the kernel programmable!Tune in to this episode whether you have never heard about eBPF, using eBPF based tools such as bcc, Cillium, Falco, Tetragon, Inspector Gadget ... or whether you are developing your own eBPF programs!Liz Rice, Chief Open Source Officer at Isovalent, kicks this episode off with a brief introduction of eBPF, explains how it works, which use cases it has enabled and why eBPF can truly give you super powers! In our conversation we dive dee...
2024-05-0647 min
PurePerformanceFrom Performance Testing to Designing for Performance with Ernst AmbichlUse Things you Understand! Learn the fundamentals to understand the layers of abstraction! And remember that we don't live in a world with unlimited resources!These are advice from our recent conversation with Ernst Ambichl, Chief Product Architect at Dynatrace, who has started his performance career in the late 80s building the first load testing tools for databases which later became one of the most successful performance engineering tools in the market.Tune in and learn about how Ernst has evolved from being a performance engineer to become an advocate for "Designing and Architecting for Performance". Ernst explains...
2024-04-2251 min
PurePerformanceSREs must not be your SWAT Teams with Dana HarrisonSREs (Site Reliability Engineers) have varying roles across different organizations: From Codifying your Infrastructure, handling high priority incidents, automating resiliency, ensuring proper observability, defining SLOs or getting rid of alert fatigue. What an SRE team must not be is a SWAT team - or - as Dana Harrison, Staff SRE at Telus puts it: "You don't want to be the fire brigade along the DevOps Infinity Loop"In his years of experience as an SRE Dana also used to run 1 week boot camps for developers to educate them on making apps observable, proper logging, resiliency architecture patterns, defining good SL...
2024-04-081h 01
PurePerformanceThe 201 Milestone Episode on Automation, AI, CoPilot and more with Mark Tomlinson201 is the HTTP status code for Resource Created. It is also the number of PurePerformance Episodes (including this one) we have published over the past years. None better to invite than the person who initially inspired us to launch PurePerformance: Mark Tomlinson, Performacologist and Director of Observability at FreedomPayTune in and listen to our thoughts on current state of automation, a recap on IFTTT, whether we believe that AIs such as CoPilot will not only make us more efficient in creating code and scripts but also lead to new ways of automation. We also give a heads-up (or...
2024-02-1258 min
PurePerformanceRecap KubeCon 2023 NA, State of Platform Engineering and more with Andi GrabnerBesides attending KubeCon 2023 NA Andreas (Andi) Grabner, co-host of PurePerformance but guest today, has also travelled parts of the US to chat with the broader observablity community on topics such as Platform Engineering, Observability, DevOps, Automation & Security.Tune in and get a quick recap of all the topics Andi has picked up on his recent trip
2023-12-0428 min
PurePerformanceServerless Observability needs a paradigm shift with Toli ApostolidisOnly a few can claim they have successfully created a Pure-Serverless architecture and only those really understand the challenges of observing real event driven architectures. Apostolis Apostolidis (also known as Toli) is one of those people and its why we invited him back to discuss all the lessons learned from his time as Head of Engineering Practices at cinch. Tune in and learn about the evoluation of Serverless observability and the challenges when observing API Gateways, Queues and Step Functions. Listen to Toli's advice on picking one observability vendor, doing your own custom instrumentation and making yourself familiar with...
2023-08-281h 00
PurePerformanceObservability Evolution: From Sys Admin to Digital Readiness Manager with Mark ForresterDo you know why customers spend more money at a pub when ordering at a table vs ordering directly from at the bar tender? Do you want to know how to get SaaS vendors to send you their observability & telemetry data? Do you want to know the career path of how an Infrastructure Analyst turned Digitial Readiness Manager?Tune in to this PurePerformance episode where we sat down with Mark Forrester from Mitchell & Butlers answering all these questions and also drawing the parallels to Observability. Because observability has come a long way just as Mark: From...
2023-07-0343 min
PurePerformanceWhy Cyber Defense is Hard: A Closer Look at the latest security research with Stefan AchleitnerSecurity comes with a price tag, such as additional wait time when going through checks at the airport or when inspection network packages at your firewall.To learn about current approaches to cyber defense and cyber deception we invited back Stefan Achleitner, Lead Researcher Cloud Native Security at Dynatrace. Tune in and learn why it is important to keep changing and using different passwords, why you should monitor all your servers, what zero day vulnerabilities are, the role of eBPF in security and why we have to minimize false positives alarms like the Hawaii Missile Alert! Some of the links...
2023-05-2252 min
PurePerformanceUnlocking the Power of OpenTelemetry: Insights from an OTel Expert at NWM36 million generated OpenTelemetry spans per hour for GraphQL based queries – that’s just one of the stats we discussed with Justin Scherer, Sr Developer and Consultant, who is leading OTel adoption and Shift-Left observability efforts at NWM. For Justin, OpenTelemetry helps commoditize data gathering in modern cloud native environments so that the backend observability platform of choice can focus on answering higher level business impacting questions.If you are about to roll out OpenTelemetry in your organization then take the advice from Justin such as: Bringing Business Leaders early into the discussion! Engage with the OpenTelemetry community! Understand what your Obse...
2023-05-0849 min
PurePerformanceSecurity for Performance Engineers with Mark TomlinsonIf there is one thing you take away from this episode then the answer to “Why we should refrain from Reply All on company wide emails”. Jokes aside – as security and performance are not always funny!In this special anniversary episode we have Mark Tomlinson, System Performance Specialist, talking about the considerations and trade-offs between performance and security. We learn about performance vulnerabilities and why it is important to factor in the additional overhead each layer of security adds to your application stack. It's always a pleasure having Mark on the show – whether it was in the past, present...
2021-10-2549 min
PurePerformanceChaos Engineering Stories that could have prevented a global pandemicNobody has foreseen the global pandemic that put a lot of chaos in all our lives recently. Let’s just hope we learn from 2020 to better prepare on what might be next.The same preparation and learning also goes for Chaos in our distributed systems that power our digital lives. And to learn from those stories and better prepare for common resiliency issues we brought back Ana Medina (@ana_m_medina), Chaos Engineer at Gremlin. As a follow up to our previous podcast with Ana, she is now sharing several stories from her chaos engineering engagements across different in...
2021-01-2552 minPurePerformanceScaling Dev Teams from Startup to Enterprise while keeping Agility with Stefan FrandlStefan Frandl, Development Director, has a single digit employee number at Dynatrace and therefore seen a lot of agile transformation over the past 15 years – growing from a startup in Linz, Austria to now 800+ engineers across globally distributed labs. A visit to several “unicorns” such as Google, Facebook and Slack triggered the latest agile transformation.In this episode Stefan walks us through the implementation of the changes we discussed with Andrea Holl in her episode on “Scaling Agile at Dynatrace”. He shares the challenges around growing responsibilities of team leads, work left half-finished, overhead on hand-over and cross team collaborat...
2020-12-1445 minPurePerformance100th Episode! Continuous Performance & Continuous Podcasting with Mark TomlinsonWait! What? This is our 100th Episode of PurePerformance? For this special anniversary we invited Mark Tomlinson, Performacologist & “The Performance Sherpa”, who also inspired us through his PerfBytes Podcast to run our own PurePerformance Podcast.While we start with talking about performance in podcasting we move over to learning more about how Mark is establishing a Continuous Performance process at his current employer. We learn about new ways to do performance engineering in a continuous way, how to integrate it with your monitoring and why it is not always important to run the big load tests but rather focu...
2019-11-251h 07PurePerformance074 Advanced Real User Monitoring Tips & Tricks with Ben RushloHappy Guy Fawkes Night!In the first episode with Ben Rushlo, Vice President of Dynatrace Services, we learned about things like not getting fooled by Bot traffic, which metrics to monitor and how RUM can replace your traditional site analytics.In this episode we dive deeper into RUM use cases around user behavior analytics, bridging the silos between Dev, Ops & Business and elaborate on why blindly optimizing individual page load times is most likely wasted time as you won’t impact what really matters: End-to-End User Experience!In our discussion we also talked about UX...
2018-11-0558 minPurePerformance070 Exploring Real User Monitoring with Ben RushloBen Rushlo, Vice President of Dynatrace Services, specializes in the Digital Experience. In this episode, Ben talks to us about Real User Monitoring. What happens when good bots go bad? Can Real User Monitoring (RUM) replace your traditional site analytics? If you have RUM, is there any reason to also use synthetics? What performance metrics are the best when it comes to monitoring the end user? How does RUM help you understand the performance of business? Tune in to episode 70 of PurePerformance for answers to these questions. https://www.linkedin.com/in/benrushlo/
2018-09-1054 min
PurePerformance CafeCafe 057: What is Istio and what monitoring use cases we see at Dynatrace with Alois MayrAlois Mayr gives us a great overview of Istio, why it is such a hot topic right now and he covers the key use cases offered by its core component Envoy: traffic routing, deployment automation, secure communication, logging and monitoring.Alois is Product Manager for Kubernetes at Dynatrace and therefore always trying to drive the product forward to support use cases our customers are demanding. This includes: what’s happening within Istio istelf? Does it impact latency between services? How about code-level and not just request level visibility? Our users also demand end user monitoring as well as th...
2018-08-2414 minPurePerformance CafeCafe 056: Dynatrace Architecture Explained with Ernst AmbichlIn a recent meetup I saw Ernst Ambichl, Chief Product Architect at Dynatrace, talk about the Dynatrace architecture, how the requirements impacted some of the decisions and how Dynatrace now supports thousands of hosts on a single Dynatrace tenant (SaaS or Managed). I got to chat with Ernst to recap the highlights of the Dynatrace architecture and how he and his team uses Dynatrace in their daily development work to ensure a scalable, reliable and high performing monitoring solution for all Dynatrace customers, partners and trial users!
2018-07-2724 minPurePerformance CafeCafe 055: Security by Design leads to Creating Secure Software!Security is a hot topic – but not always that interesting for the regular developer who just wants to write new functionality. Daniel Deogun (@DanielDeogun) and Daniel Sawano (@DanielSawano)– two speakers I just met at Devoxx Poland – are advocating for Security by Design which not only ensures more secure software but is also appealing to developers. Listen in and learn about the key security principles and how to enforce them and make sure to watch out for their book which will be released later this year.http://devoxx.pl/https://twitter.com/@DanielDeogunhttps://twitter.com/@DanielSawanoS...
2018-06-2106 minPurePerformance CafeCafe 054: What’s the Dynatrace ONE Experience with Stephen HullAndi bumped into Stephen Hull ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/hullst/ ) who is leading one of our Dynatrace ONE teams out of Detroit, Michigan. Stephen explained to us how Dynatrace ONE, available for all Dynatrace customers, is redefining the user experience when working with our Dynatrace solution offerings – whether it is SaaS or Managed. He gives us insights how these teams are structured, how to interact and leverage these teams and what else comes with the “Dynatrace ONE Experience”!
2018-06-1408 minPurePerformance CafeCafe 053: Big Data IgniteBrian speaks with Elliott Church & Tuhin Mitra from Big Data Ignite, and Nolen Akerman of Kellogg, about the upcoming Big Data Ignite conference in Grand Rapids, MI, September 19-21, 2018.
2018-06-1127 minPurePerformance CafeCafe 052: Redefine Dashboarding: What’s New & Coming from the Product TeamPeter Zahrer ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-zahrer-5b4a7b107/ ) and Roman Windischhofer ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/romanlw/ ), two Technical Dynatrace Product Managers, give us insights into how they are redefining Dashboarding, how the feedback process works that influences the product roadmap and give us an outlook on what is coming up soon when we talk about Dashboarding in Dynatrace. The best way to get in touch with them is through their sticky note on our Dynatrace Community: http://bit.ly/dashboard-roadmap . Also keep an eye on their What’s New blog posts and Performance Clinics such as AI...
2018-06-0810 minPurePerformance CafeCafe 051: DevOps by nature. How do we learn from ants and bees with Mark HeistekMark Heistek ( https://twitter.com/MarkHeistek ), a biomimicry expert, reminded us how much we can learn from nature by mimicking natures behavior. Check out this recap of his session and also learn how he applied lessons from nature with the Dutch Railroad Company. More details about his talk on DevOps Tallinn website. ( https://www.topconf.com/conference/devops-tallinn-2018/talk/devops-by-nature-how-do-we-learn-from-ants-and-bees/ )
2018-05-2905 minPurePerformance CafeCafe 050: Managing Microservices at Google with Acacio CruzAcacio Cruz ( https://twitter.com/acaciocruz ), Director Software Engineering at Google, gives us insights into how Google manages large scale microservices and how they automate the creation of all configuration files, e.g: Test as Code, Monitoring as Code, … More details about his talk on the DevOps Tallinn website. ( https://www.topconf.com/conference//devops-tallinn-2018/talk/managing-microservices-how-to-tame-a-sprawling-set-of-services/ )
2018-05-2805 minPurePerformance CafeCafe 049: ChatOps! - What's, How's & Possibilities... with Arnab SinhaArnab Sinha ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/arnabsinha4u/ ), Continuous Delivery and ChatOps expert, gave us a great overview on ChatOps, how to get started, how to proof the value and how to scale. More details about his talk on the DevOps Tallinn website. ( https://www.topconf.com/conference/devops-tallinn-2018/talk/chatops-what-s-how-s-possibilities/ )
2018-05-2505 minPurePerformance CafeCafe 048: No Nouns! Or! To Microservice or Not with Jan de VriesJan de Vries ( https://twitter.com/Jan_de_V ), Solution Architect at 4dotnet, gave us a great overview of monoliths vs microservices, how to best migrate and also what to avoid. More details about his talk on the DevOps Tallinn website. ( https://www.topconf.com/conference/devops-tallinn-2018/talk/no-nouns/ )
2018-05-2407 minPurePerformance CafeCafe 047: Don't panic! How to launch large-scale sites with calm and confidence with Ryan TownsendRyan Townsend ( https://twitter.com/RyanTownsend ) gave us insight into how they are launching large scale ecommerce websites, how to optimize web performance and why it is more important to deliver a fast experience vs no experience at all. More details about his talk on the DevOps Tallinn website. ( https://www.topconf.com/conference/devops-tallinn-2018/talk/don-t-panic-how-to-launch-large-scale-sites-with-calm-and-confidence/ )
2018-05-2307 minPurePerformance CafeCafe 046: Virtual Performance Advisory Council with Henrik RexedHenrik Rexed ( https://twitter.com/Hrexed ) of Neotys joins us to tell us about the awesome Virtual Performance Advisory Council, a free online Performance based conference, taking place around the globe on June 6. Check out the list of speakers and sign up to attend the free virtual event herehttps://www.neotys.com/performance-advisory-council
2018-05-1621 minPurePerformance CafeCafe 045: Tales From The Trenches with James Kitson EP 001James Kitson, Guardian on the Dynatrace Expert Services Team ( https://twitter.com/jimm_with_a_j ), helps kick off a new show within the PurePerformance Cafe called Tales From The Trenches. These stories come from either his or his colleagues experiences in the real world, where they used Dynatrace to help save the day. In this first episode, James discusses what happened when developers fixed some code and didn't tell anybody about it.
2018-04-1114 minPurePerformance CafeCafe 044: Chatting with Microsoft MVP Stefan BaumgartnerIf you always thought that Microsoft only awards the MVP title to people that are deeply engaged with Microsoft technology then you are as wrong as I was. Stefan Baumgartner ( https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/PublicProfile/5003003?fullName=Stefan%20%20Baumgartner ), Dynatrace Web Dev Team Lead, was awarded by Microsoft thanks to his contribution in the open source community and his achievements around web development and web performance. Listen in, check out his blog ( https://fettblog.eu ) or try to catch him at one of the upcoming conferences such as www.devone.at
2018-03-1908 min
2018-01-3024 minPurePerformance CafeCafe 43: IoT on the Edge - Breakfast at Perform 2018In today’s IoT environments more and more functionality is moved from the cloud to the edge. To reduce the amount of data that needs to be sent over networks and overcome the risk of outages, logic is being executed close to the data origins.But that causes complexity of such environments to increase vastly. Join us at the IoT breakfast at Perform 2018 on Wednesday, Jan 31st from 8am till 9am!Ian Perez Ponce from Amazon Web Services and Harald Zeitlhofer from Dynatrace will inform you about new trends in edge processing and monitoring:• AWS...
2018-01-1704 minPurePerformance CafeCafe 042: Dynatrace Hackathon at PERFORM 2018 - Get Ready! Get On-Stage!Monitoring your hamster? Integrating Dynatrace into Jenkins? Extending the Dynatrace CLI? Self-Healing Scripts? Generic Execution Plugin? These are just some of the ideas for the Dynatrace PERFORM Hackathon which is introduced by Daniel Dyla and Andi Grabner. With only 3 weeks left until PERFORM its time to start implementing the extension you always wanted to build for Dynatrace based on the open Dynatrace API and the Integration Interfaces Dynatrace provides. Finalize the project at PERFORM. Best thing: "What happens in Vegas won't just stay in Vegas". We will promote each project and the get the best ideas on stage!
2018-01-0907 minPurePerformance CafeCafé 041: Dynatrace UFO Next Generation Ideas with Stefan FrandlThe Dynatrace UFO has completely changed our way of thinking about quality. But whats next? How do we keep that UFO spirit alive and thriving? Stefan Frandl and Andi Grabner discuss some additional ideas on what might be next
2017-11-2603 minPurePerformance CafeCafé 040: Smart Test Selection with Stefan FrandlWhat if you have thousands of tests but not the time to execute them for every build? Well – we must be smart with selecting which tests to execute to give high quality feedback. In this café Stefan Frandl gives us some thoughts on Test Ranking and smart test selection to ensure that the right tests are executed to achieve high quality feedback
2017-11-2405 minPurePerformance CafeCafe 039 Developer Health Monitoring with Stefan FrandlWe always talk about monitoring systems – but what about monitoring the health of our development teams? Wouldn’t it be great to have some early warning indicators if quality of teams or individual’s changes? In this café Andi Grabner discusses some thoughts on developer health monitoring with Stefan Frandl from our Dynatrace Linz Lab
2017-11-2305 min
PurePerformance CafeCafé 038: Cyber Week KickoffEvery year, our own David Jones blogs is coverage of Black Friday/Cyber Monday performance successes and Failures. Join us as we get live updates from David.Follow Jonesy's blog in real time:https://www.dynatrace.com/blog/2017-cyber-week-coverage-black-friday-cyber-monday-retail-digital-performance/
2017-11-2221 minPurePerformance040 101 Series: Cloud FoundryWhat is Cloud Foundry? And why does Alois Mayr (@mayralois) say that Cloud Foundry is the most opinionated PaaS Platform in the world? Listen to this 101 show to get a good overview of what Cloud Foundry (CF) is, how it started and what offerings are available right now. Also learn what the main use cases are for CF Cloud Operators as well as for Developers that use the platform to push their applications and services.If you want to learn more or see Alois in action make sure to watch his Full Stack Monitoring on Cloud Foundry PurePerformance...
2017-07-1750 minPurePerformance CafeCafe 037: Network Monitoring Agent Demystified with Lukasz WronaLukasz Wrona ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukasz-wrona-90501bab/ ) is the Infrastructure Agent Tech Team Lead at Dynatrace. I caught him at a break at OpenStack Summit to learn more about how Dynatrace actually monitors network activity, network quality and individual network connections between processes. While network is a hot topic for OpenStack operators, it is a hot topic for every infrastructure deployment such as bare metal, virtual, container, or cloud. Tune in to learn more about the current but also upcoming capabilities of the Network Agent. Learn more at https://www.dynatrace.com/capabilities/network-monitoring/
2017-05-1707 minPurePerformance CafeCafe 036: Top Open Stack Features and Direction with Karolina RuszkowskaKarolina Ruszkowska ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/karolina-ruszkowska-b00506b/ ) is the Technical Product Manager at Dynatrace responsible for the support of monitoring Open Stack, AWS, Docker, Azure and other technologies natively with Dynatrace. She gave us some insights into what is influencing her future product strategy. Especially around network monitoring but also health monitoring of the key OpenStack services. Watch out for the next releases in Dynatrace and see how the latest trends she learned at OpenStack Summit influence the product direction. Learn more at https://www.dynatrace.com/solutions/openstack-cloud-monitoring/
2017-05-1606 min
PurePerformance CafeCafe 035: Top OpenStack Monitoring Questions at the Dynatrace Booth with Peter HackLive at OpenStack Summit, I got to chat with Peter Hack ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-hack-84b9a5/ ), Senior Solution Engineer at Dynatrace. Peter discussed technical solutions with many of the attendees that stopped at the Dynatrace booth. Most attendees were focusing on infrastructure monitoring of OpenStack while it turned out that monitoring the containers, services and applications that run on OpenStack is as critical as ensuring a healthy infrastructure. Learned a lot about terminology and what the basic requirements are for monitoring an OpenStack environment. Learn more at https://www.dynatrace.com/solutions/openstack-cloud-monitoring/
2017-05-1505 minPurePerformance CafeCafe 034: Two Case Studies in Superb Bowl Success and Failure with David JonesIn part 2 of our chat with David Jones (@davidlewisjones) of Dynatrace, we discuss two specific cases of performance during the Big Game. On the one hand, we saw optimizations being applied to Lady Gaga's sight almost up the time of her halftime show, ensuring great performance and a wonderful user experience. On the other hand, 84 Lumber's site crashed under the success of their ad and we discuss whether that crash was an outright failure, or did it lead to a greater success in their promotion efforts. Related LinksDynatrace Performance Bowl 2017 Digital Experience, Live Blog Coverage...
2017-02-2126 minPurePerformance CafeCafe 033: Superb Bowl 2017 Winners and Losers with David JonesDavid Jones (@davidlewisjones) of Dynatrace spends most big media events in front of his computer, analyzing the performance of the web properties involved. This year's Big Game was no exception. Brian had a chance to sit down with David and talk about the winners and losers and what set them apart. Related LinksDynatrace Performance Bowl 2017 Digital Experience, Live Blog Coveragehttps://www.dynatrace.com/blog/dynatrace-performance-bowl-2017-digital-experience-live-blog-coverage/More Performance Blogs by Davidhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/davidlewisjonesFollow David Jones on Twitter:https://twitter.com/davidlewisjones
2017-02-1726 minPurePerformance CafeCafe 32: Perform 2017 - "The Future" with Josh McKenty of PivotalJosh McKenty of Pivotal Cloud Foundry stopped by the PerfBytes/PurePerformance Podcast station at Dynatrace Perform. We discussed many great topics, including; closing the loop in CI/CD by measuring results and automating rollbacks, tearing down the final Silo of Business, iterating through meaningful measurements, and Web 3.0 & 4.0
2017-02-1521 minPurePerformance CafeCafe 31: Perform 2017 - Magic Pipelines, Electric Cloud, ElectricFlow & Dynatrace with Anand AhireAnand Ahire, Senior Director Product Management and Blogger at Electric Cloud, spoke to us again at Dynatrace Perform 2017 in Las Vegas. This time around, Anand speaks to us about the magic Automation that ElectricFlow adds to the DevOps Release pipeline and highlights the partnership between Electric Cloud and Dynatrace.
2017-02-1319 minPurePerformance CafeCafe 30: What is Open Stack and how it changes monitoring for Ops and App Teams with Dirk WallerstorferOpenStack is the largest Open Source project with many large companies such as PayPal or AT&T using and supporting it. I got to chat with Dirk Wallerstorfer (@wall_dirk) – Technical Lead for OpenStack at Dynatrace – to learn what OpenStack is really all about. He also explained the use cases that APM vendors such as Dynatrace see to support Operators as well as Application Developers that start using OpenStack as their private cloud solution. Want to be part of our journey with Open Stack – then get started here: https://www.dynatrace.com/technologies/cloud-and-microservices/openstack-monitoring/
2017-01-1105 minPurePerformance CafeCafe 29: Use Cases for Deploying and Monitoring Applications in MS Azure with Martin GutenbrunnerDid you know that Microsoft provides several cloud offerings through Azure? IaaS, CaaS, PaaS, FaaS and SaaS! I got to chat with Martin Gutenbrunner (@MartinGoodwell) – Technical Lead for Microsoft Technologies at Dynatrace – to better understand how application developers can best leverage these Azure offerings. I also wanted to know why I still need an APM Solution like Dynatrace when I can use Application Insights that basically comes for free. If you want to explore the monitoring use cases with Dynatrace SaaS yourself get started through http://bit.ly/dtsaastrial - the first 1000h hours are on us!
2017-01-0907 minPurePerformance CafeCafe 28: What is Node.js and Why is it a hot technology with Daniel KhanIf you haven’t heard about Node.js listen to this episode. I got to talk with Daniel Khan (@dkhan) – Technology Lead for Node.js at Dynatrace – about why many large organizations are looking into Node.js as one of their key technologies to build new modern apps but also to “glue” New Stack with Enterprise Stack. Daniel is very active in the global Node.js Communities. If you want to learn more start by checking out his blog posts: http://apmblog.dynatrace.com/author/daniel-khan/
2017-01-0508 minPurePerformance CafeCafe 27: Leveling Up Functional Testing with APM – Grzegorz WitczakShift-Left Performance is a topic that is dear to my heart. Thanks to Grzegorz Witczak, Engineer at the Dynatrace Test Automation Team, Dynatrace users can automatically detect architectural, performance and scalability regressions by analyzing the execution of unit and functional tests. Grzegorz explains some of the hidden secrets they implemented, how it integrates with Jenkins, Bamboo, … and the most common testing frameworks
2016-12-1507 minPurePerformance CafeCafe 26: Helping Developers to Better Understand the DBAs – Michal WeyerMichal Weyer is an Engineer at Dynatrace. Before Dynatrace he worked in different large organizations building applications, taking the database that stores data for granted. Now at Dynatrace he is building performance monitoring for databases that are accessed by applications – allowing developers to better learn what impact their code has on the database. Want to meet him face2face? He will soon be presenting at the local meetup groups in Gdansk, Poland and probably at one of the next Dynatrace TechShare’s: https://dynatracetechshare.evenea.pl/
2016-12-1406 minPurePerformance CafeCafe 25: TechShare Gdansk, Poland – Building an APM Community with Wiktor BachnikGdansk, Poland can be considered the “Silicon Valley” of Poland with many national and international IT companies having offices in the Tri-City area. I got to chat with Wiktor Bachnik (@wbachnik) from Dynatrace Poland and what his motivation is to start a new cross company APM Community in Gdansk. He wants to bring people together and share their experience when it comes to building better quality and better performing software. He and his team started this journey early December with the first TechShare – more will come. If you want to learn more check out https://dynatracetechshare.evenea.pl/
2016-12-1305 minPurePerformance CafeCafe 024: Why we monitor Dynatrace AppMon on Dynatrace AppMon in Production with Roland MungenastRoland Mungenast (https://at.linkedin.com/in/rmungenast ) is one of our Chief Software Architects for Dynatrace AppMon & UEM. He told me that one of the biggest challenges in the last year was the growing number of production installations of Dynatrace and the increased number of support tickets we saw. Roland explains how we started instrumenting Dynatrace with Dynatrace to capture more diagnostics information in customer environments where Dynatrace was not running smooth. This limited the effort when dealing with support issues and gives our engineering team more time to innovate on new product ideas. Want to check out the...
2016-12-1208 min
PurePerformance CafeCafe 023: Influencing Product Direction and Feedback Loops for Dynatrace AppMon with Kurt AignerKurt Aigner (@KurtAigner) is a Technical Product Manager at Dynatrace – responsible for the On-Premise AppMon & UEM solution. He gives us an overview of how Dynatrace involves its end users into the decision process for future product enhancements. We discuss the usage of built-in product feedback channels, usage of the online community answers.dynatrace.com as well as leveraging Early Access Programs and tight relationship with our field team. If you want to see his product in action – get your own personal license and access to the community through http://bit.ly/dtpersonal
2016-12-0908 min
PurePerformance CafeCafe 022: What is CloudFoundry and How to Monitor it with Dynatrace with Alois MayrDo you wonder what CloudFoundry is? What does it have to do with Pivotal or IBM BlueMix? What are the special monitoring use cases and how does Dynatrace address it? I got Alois Mayr (@mayralois) – Technology Lead for Cloud Foundry at Dynatrace – on this interview today. If you want to learn more about this topic check out our free trial offering: https://www.dynatrace.com/technologies/cloud-and-microservices/cloud-foundry-monitoring/
2016-12-0809 minPurePerformance CafeCafe 021: Optimizing Performance and Conversion with SAP Hybris and DynatraceSAP Hybris is a world class eCommerce solution. Dynatrace has been a partner of hybris for several years where Reinhard Brandstaedter (@rebrandstaedter) – Technology Lead for hybris at Dynatrace – created an out of the box Dynatrace FastPack allowing hybris customers to optimize performance, user experience and ultimately conversion rates of their hybris implementation. In this interview I got Reinhard to talk about some of the lessons learned, success stories and got tips on how to get started. Want to see it live? Then check out this: http://bit.ly/dtforhybris
2016-12-0707 minPurePerformance CafeCafe 020: What is OpenShift and why RedHat sees Dynatrace as preferred APM partnerIf you haven’t heard about OpenShift, which problems it solves and why you need a good monitoring strategy for it then listen to this PurePerformance Café with Martin Etmajer (@metmajer)– Technology Lead for OpenShift at Dynatrace.If you want to learn more check out https://www.dynatrace.com/technologies/cloud-and-microservices/openshift-monitoring/ and give it a test run with our free trial.
2016-12-0507 minPurePerformance CafePurePerformance Cafe 019: Why I love working in the Dynatrace Test Automation Team – Bernd Farka, DynatraceIn the first PurePerformance Café episode Bernd explained how his team has reduced cycle time of the code pipeline from 1w to 2h for core Dynatrace components. I wanted to learn more about how he sees the role of his team – the Test Automation Team – which provides the actual pipeline and the tooling that allows developers to push code faster through a pipeline. The most interesting comment he made was: “I am a Developer. Initially I wasn’t sure if I wanted to do Test Automation – but what we do here is developing an actual product and touching every piece of technolo...
2016-12-0204 minPurePerformance CafePurePerformance Cafe 018: How we reduced Cycle Time from 1w to 2h through a modern Jenkins & Docker based Pipeline – Bernd Farka, DynatraceGot to chat with Bernd Farka (https://www.linkedin.com/in/bernd-farka-6a13a456/en ) – Integration Architect at Dynatrace – talking about how their Test Automation team was challenged with too long execution time of builds. Dynatrace provides Agents for multiple technologies and multiple platforms. That combination and other factors caused full test cycles to take up to 1w. Bernd explains how they broke up the code base into components, moved to Jenkins, Docker and Git and how these measures now allow them to give developers feedback within 2h instead of 1 week.
2016-12-0207 minPurePerformance CafePurePerformance Cafe 017: Coop on MS Azure and monitoring with the help of D.A.V.I.S with Jeppe Hedesgaard Lindberg.Coop has been disrupting retail in the last 150 years. This time it is about offering new mobile ways to connect their loyal customers to their services. As many companies Coop choose a “New Stack” approach for building the new mobile platform. While MS Azure proofed to be a good choice it was clear that Operations and Development had to also think about how to monitor, understand and manage the additional complexity they just added. Jeppe Hedesgaard Lindberg (https://dk.linkedin.com/in/jeppe-hedesgaard-lindberg-7467475 ) gives us insights on how they use Dynatrace SaaS and D.A.V.I.S (https://www.dyna...
2016-12-0207 minPurePerformance CafePurePerformance Cafe 016: Sofico means Shift-Left Performance with Jan SwaelensSofico’s 50 globally distributed engineers are committing 350 changes which triggering 90 builds per day. To ensure that the pipeline can handle that load and that the quality of the code changes is still good Sofico is using Bamboo, Ant, Selenium, SauceLabs and Dynatrace to check for performance and architectural regressions early on. Listen to some of the reasoning and best practices that Jan Swaelens, Solution Manager at Sofico, shares with us.@JanSwaelenshttps://be.linkedin.com/in/janswaelens
2016-11-3004 minPurePerformance CafePurePerformance Cafe 015 DevOps on Cloud Foundry at HumanaAndi got to chat with Jason McKee (@mckeejm) (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamckee ) and Patrick Huber (https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-huber-36b42138 ) who are enabling Faster Delivery of Applications at Humana using Cloud Foundry. They tell us why they like a PaaS approach for their new apps, why they focus on 12-factor apps and what role monitoring has to play
2016-11-1907 minPurePerformance CafePurePerformance Cafe 014: DOES16 with Anand Ahire from Electric CloudChatting with Anand Ahire, Sr Dir of Product Management from Electric CloudElectric Cloud started DevOps Enterprise Summit 3 years ago – working with Gene Kim and others helped them to transforming it into a key conference where large enterprises share their DevOps transformation stories.In this chat we talk about pipelines, containers, microservices, cloud and how Electric Cloud helps companies to build pipelines in a technology and cloud agnostic way – including Dynatrace as one of the tools in the DevOps Toolchain to provide key metrics for the automated feedback loop.
2016-11-1407 minPurePerformance020 DevOps Stories, Practices and Outlooks with Gene Kim: Part 3Gene Kim has been promoting a lot of the great DevOps Transformation stories from Unicorns (Innovators) but more so from "The Horses" (Early Adopters). The next DOES (DevOps Enterprise Summit) is just on its way helping him with his mission to increase DevOps adoption across the IT world.In our 3 podcast sessions we discussed the success factors of DevOps adoption, the reasons that lead to resistance as well as how to best measure success and enforce feedback loops.Thanks Gene for allowing us to be part of transforming our IT world.Related Link:Get a...
2016-11-0720 minPurePerformance019 DevOps Stories, Practices and Outlooks with Gene Kim: Part 2Gene Kim has been promoting a lot of the great DevOps Transformation stories from Unicorns (Innovators) but more so from "The Horses" (Early Adopters). The next DOES (DevOps Enterprise Summit) is just on its way helping him with his mission to increase DevOps adoption across the IT world.In our 3 podcast sessions we discussed the success factors of DevOps adoption, the reasons that lead to resistance as well as how to best measure success and enforce feedback loops.Thanks Gene for allowing us to be part of transforming our IT world.Related Link:Get a...
2016-11-0726 minPurePerformance018 DevOps Stories, Practices and Outlooks with Gene Kim: Part 1Gene Kim has been promoting a lot of the great DevOps Transformation stories from Unicorns (Innovators) but more so from "The Horses" (Early Adopters). The next DOES (DevOps Enterprise Summit) is just on its way helping him with his mission to increase DevOps adoption across the IT world.In our 3 podcast sessions we discussed the success factors of DevOps adoption, the reasons that lead to resistance as well as how to best measure success and enforce feedback loops.Thanks Gene for allowing us to be part of transforming our IT world.Related Link:Get a...
2016-11-0734 minPurePerformance CafePurePerformance Cafe 013: Star West 2016 with Kirk Tuxhorn from NeotysAndi is at Star West in Anaheim (Disneyland). Besides joking with Mickey Mouse and Donald he also got to chat with Kirk Tuxhorn from Neotys about how load testing companies see and deal with the “Shift-Left Performance” movement. It is all about automation, integration and opening it up to a transforming set of performance engineers who are now embedded in the “DevOps / Continuous Delivery” Teams.
2016-11-0207 minPurePerformance CafePurePerformance Cafe 012: with Derek Abing of Sentry InsuranceFor some reason, Andi was in Madison, Wisconsin. He got a chance to catch up with Derek Abing (https://www.linkedin.com/in/derekabing ) from Sentry Insurance. They talked about the evolution of Dynatrace AppMon & UEM within Sentry Insurance. In particular, how it evolved from App Monitoring to Enterprise System Monitoring replacing several of their other tools they had in place such as SCOM, OpenView, SiteScope. Derek was also part of our Dynatrace AppMon & UEM 6.5 Early Access Program and sees this as a major step forward to make everyone a Performance Expert thanks to the enhancements in the Web Dashboards...
2016-11-0111 minPurePerformance CafePurePerformance Cafe 011: JavaOne 2016 with Pieter Humphrey of PivotalAndi is at JavaOne in San Francisco. In this episode of PurePerformance Cafe, Andi talks with Pieter Humphrey (@PieterHumphrey) from Pivotal talking about Platform as a Service (PaaS) and how the benefit of having developers focus on just writing code can also be a challenge as bad code can do a lot of harm in terms of PaaS and IaaS costs.Check this episode to learn more about Cloud Foundry as well as other PaaS providers, the promises and hopes but also the potential challenges.Related Links:* Pivotal Cloud Free Trial***** http://run.pivotal...
2016-09-2209 minPurePerformance CafePurePerformance Cafe 010: JavaOne 2016 with Carlos SanchezAndi is at JavaOne in San Francisco. In this episode of PurePerformance Cafe, Andi talks to Carlos Sanchez (@csanchez) of CloudBees about moving from Monolith to Microservices. by moving Jenkins, scaled at thousands of worker instances, to the cloud. They also talk about the importance of performance in the pipeline - how to bake it in earlier - so that companies that use Cloud Bees can actually push good code through an optimized, cloud based pipeline.
2016-09-2208 min
PurePerformancePurePerformance Guest Host Series 01: Alois Reitbauer presents From Monolith to Microservices at Prep SportswearAlois Reitbauer (@AloisReitbauer) guest hosts - Mike Jones ( http://bit.ly/mjlnk ) takes us on a journey how the team moved a monolithic application that was built by a remote team to a micro service architecture. Learn how the manage a couple of million lines of code with only 5 people while improving performance and availability. Mike also shares lessons learned on their journey and shares strategies on how to make the transition to micro services while having to keep the lights on for day-to-day business.
2016-08-0836 minPurePerformance CafePurePerformance Cafe 009: 10 Years and Still Innovating: The journey of Dynatrace EngineeringAlexander Scheran and Arno Huetter (@ArnoHu) share their insights on how Dynatrace Engineering changed over the last 10 years, how they managed to keep developers in the center of innovation, what culture means for them and how in general the day-to-day life at Dynatrace R&D looks like allowing them to rapidly develop and deploy software on a continuous basis. We recommend to listen in, in case you work for a company that has grown over the years and you wish you could still operate as if you would be a startup!Dynatrace Pipeline State UFO - https://github...
2016-07-1320 minPurePerformance CafePurePerformanceCafe 008: Dynatrace DevOps with Jon Anhold & AaronVolkmannAndi chats with Jon Anhold (@perlguy9) from Rosetta and Aaron Volkmann (@AaronvOlk) from Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute – both DevOps Advocates – after they participate in a DevOps Panel discussion at a Dynatrace event in Cleveland, OH. Their teams help their customers transform towards a new “DevOpsy” way to develop, test, deploy and run software. In the interview they reflected on what type of transformation their customers go through, how to start, where they struggle and how important monitoring and metrics are in that process.
2016-07-0806 minPurePerformance CafePurePerformance Cafe 007: Velocity 2016 at the Dynatrace BoothClose to the end of the show it was time to have a quick walk through the Dynatrace Booth. Joking and talking with my colleagues about performance and about our different tool offerings such as Dynatrace Synthetic, AppMon & UEM, DCRUM or Ruxit. We also interrupted some of my colleagues who just enjoyed coffee and pastry. Enjoy!
2016-06-2809 minPurePerformance CafePurePerformance Cafe 006: Velocity 2016 with Bill ZajacBill and his company make the Internet 20 times faster -> just like PiedPiper – but in their case it is for real and not just a TV show! We get an insight into how their technology works which allows their customers to move data faster over the internet by optimizing package routes. It’s like “The Waze” for internet traffic. I saw it live – really impressive!Twitter *Guests:****Bill Zajac: @BillJZajac*PurePerformance:**Hosts ****Andi Grabner: @grabnerandi****Brian Wilson: @emperorwilson*Feedback: #PurePerformance @Dynatrace
2016-06-2806 minPurePerformance CafePurePerformance Cafe 005: Velocity 2016 with Jon HodgsonHis big topic is: Quality of data that monitoring tools capture! He discusses several use cases where monitoring granularity down to 1s is very critical – especially on the infrastructure side in order to identify intermittent problems. On a transactional level, it is important to see every transaction all the time – sampling won’t cut it as you can't do real root cause diagnostics if you don’t know the difference between good and bad. Challenge the tool – pick the one that gives you the data you need –don’t fall short with sampling!Twitter *Guests:****Jon Hodgson...
2016-06-2806 minPurePerformance CafePurePerformance Cafe 004: Velocity 2016 with Dominic McGinnisChatting with Dominic over a coffee on his current performance issue with their .NET Application: a memory issue their customers faced when running their apps. He talks about which diagnostics tools he used, where he struggled, and why he had to use different tools to actually find the problem.Great summary of the sessions he visited, which metrics he is interested in and which vendors he found interesting!Twitter *Guests:****Dominic McGinnis: @irishhombrebeer*PurePerformance:**Hosts ****Andi Grabner: @grabnerandi****Brian Wilson: @emperorwilson*Feedback: #PurePerformance @Dynatrace
2016-06-2807 minPurePerformance CafePurePerformance Cafe 003: Velocity 2016 with Bryan Einwalter & Venkata ThotaPage Performance is very important for eCommerce and therefore for Grainger. Key items for them right now are to find the best metrics and define “actionable” alerting for Ops in case something goes wrong. We also discussed the “Shocking News” given by Tammy Everts and Pat Meenan who claimed that Render Time is not influential for conversion and user experience! WHAT does that mean for us now?Twitter *Guests:****Bryan Einwalter: @perfchicago****Venkata Thota: @beinwal*PurePerformance:**Hosts ****Andi Grabner: @grabnerandi****Brian Wilson: @emperorwilson*Feedback: #PurePerformance @Dynatrace
2016-06-2809 minPurePerformance CafePurePerformance Cafe 002: Velocity 2016 with Adam Auerbach & Topo PalAdam and Topo discuss how CapitalOne measures and optimizes the throughput of their pipeline, how important early performance testing is and how they use a lot of open source tools to run large scale functional and load tests. In addition, hear about their DevOps Dashboard which they've open sourced on github:https://github.com/capitalone/HygieiaTwitter *Guests:****Adam Auerbach: @Bugman31****Topo Pal: @TopoPal*PurePerformance:**Hosts ****Andi Grabner: @grabnerandi****Brian Wilson: @emperorwilson*Feedback: #PurePerformance @Dynatrace
2016-06-2809 minPurePerformance CafePurePerformance Cafe 001: Velocity 2016 with Steve SoudersSteve and Andi discuss the importance of metrics, which ones we have right now and which ones Steve believes will become more important in the future.Twitter *Guests:****Steve Souders: @souders*PurePerformance:**Hosts ****Andi Grabner: @grabnerandi****Brian Wilson: @emperorwilson*Feedback: #PurePerformance @Dynatrace
2016-06-2308 min