PurePerformance

Dave Anderson of Dynartrace

Broadcasting Live from Dynatrace Perform 2018 in lovely Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Markus Heimbach, Team Lead of the Infrastructure and Service Team at Dynatrace, explains the continuous delivery process of www.dynatrace.com really works behind the scenes. 2 years ago the web site team used a traditional CMS (Content Management System) which was slow, error prone, and didn’t deliver the expected end user experience for visitors of our website. 2 years later Markus and his team b...

Feature Toggles or Feature Flags are not new – but they are a hot topic as they allow safer and fearless continuous delivery. Finn Lorbeer ( https://twitter.com/finnlorbeer ) gives us technical insight into how he has been implementing feature toggles in projects he was involved over the last years. We learn why he loves https://github.com/heartysoft/togglez , how to test feature toggles, monitor...

Have heard about “Shifting Left”? Well – get prepared to hear that Shift-Left is not the only solution to building a high quality products. Finn Lorbeer ( http://www.lor.beer/ ) is a Product Quality Specialist working for Thoughtworks. In a recent presentation given at Quest4Quality ( http://questforquality.eu/speakers/finn-lorbeer/ ) in Dublin he explained how being a quality engineer is no longe...

Erik Landsness, Director Network Operations Center & SRE at Beachbody, talks us through his last 1.5 years in his role where he has been transforming the role and culture of the traditional NOC team from human-based Dashboard analytics to a Automated Self-Healing Zero-Dashboard Culture. While they haven’t yet reached that end state they have made big strides. Erik shares with us how to gradually t...

Are you still deploying machines manually? Do you have to login to machines to apply changes? Do you spend hours or even days to detect infrastructure issues messing with your test execution or even production? We have the answer for your pain: Listen to this podcast! Markus Heimbach leads the Infrastructure and Service team at Dynatrace and explains how they got rid of Snowflakes (not in the poli...

We typically hear about agile transformation being driven from development and eventually pushing it towards operations. But it doesn’t have to be that way as we hear from Nestor and Abeer who helped transform their operations team from Waterfall (Traditional Ops), to Partial Scrum (Intro to Agile) and then Kanban (more defined structures for Ops using Agile principles). Listen in and learn what t...

Most of us remember the DDOS attack last year executed through thousands of Security Camera IoT devices. This raised security questions around IoT but also helped the public to understand that IoT (Internet of Things) is a real thing. In this session, we learn from Harald Zeitlhofer ( https://twitter.com/HZeitlhofer ) why he rather likes to call this hot trend IoE (Internet of Everything), what th...

If you believe OpenStack and OpenShift are pretty much the same thing. you better listen to this episode with Martin Etmajer ( https://twitter.com/metmajer ). He explains what OpenShift is, how it differentiates from Cloud Foundry and other PaaS platforms, and which major contribution it can have to successful DevOps transformations. To put it in his words: OpenShift provides great user experience...

Project Jigsaw, G1 as default garbage collector, ahead-of-time compilation, Stack Walking API and many more changes that you should be aware of when upgrading to Java 9. Philipp Lengauer, whom we met at devone.at, gives us all the answers and technical deep dive into all these JVM changes. Especially for performance engineers an episode worth while listening to. If you want to learn more check out...

If you thought EC2 was the first service offered by Amazon Web Services and if you think 53 in “Route 53” is just a random number then you should listen to this 101 on AWS Podcast. This time we got to chat with Wayne Segar ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/wayne-segar-6222ba57/ ) who has been helping companies to move to new cloud technologies and services such as AWS. Wayne gave us a great overview o...

Why would I move to .NET Core? If I move, can I just recompile my .NET code with the new .NET Core and run it on Linux? Or is there more to it? What is .NET Core at all and what does it provide as compared to ASP.NET Core? Can I still monitor my .NET Applications the same way as in the past or is there a new approach for tracing and monitoring? And is it true that all of this is now available on G...

Visually Complete and Speed Index have been introduced to better measure real end user performance experience. Klaus Enzenhofer @kenzenhofer ( https://twitter.com/kenzenhofer ) gives us a detailed description of these metrics, how they are getting calculated, and which problem they solve. What we also learn in this 101 is why now we finally have these metrics available not just for synthetic monit...

Spoiler Alert: Serverless doesn’t mean that we got rid of servers. We just don’t have to think about them anymore as we can focus on coding functions that get executed when triggered through certain events. Daniel Khan (@dkhan) tells us more about use cases of Serverless or as he likes to call it “Function as a Service” (FaaS). We also chat a lot about monitoring and the challenges of actually mon...

It sounds like 3 buzzwords, But there is more than that. We were intrigued by the Digital Mastery & Joy ( https://info.dynatrace.com/apm_wc_panera_na_registration.html ) webinar Klaus Enzenhofer @kenzenhofer ( https://twitter.com/kenzenhofer ) did with Panera Bread. In his introductory statement, Klaus cited a recent study from IDG on Digital Customer Experience. The biggest challenges are data si...

What 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 appl...

If you wonder what the top 3 ways are to pronounce Azure, then check out this episode. Also, if you want to learn more about what Azure really provides, why it used to be ahead of the curve, and why Microsoft had to re-invent it to provide services that software companies really needed, you won't want to miss this episode. Martin Gutenbrunner (@MartinGoodwell) gives us a good overview of the key A...

If you think Node.js is just a technology used by small start ups then you better listen to this 101 episode. Daniel Khan (@dkhan) – a member of the Node.js community and working group – answers a lot of questions on why large enterprises such as Walmart, Paypal or Intuit use Node.js to innovate. Daniel also explains the internals of Node.js, its event driven processing model, its non-blocking asy...

What is OpenStack? Oh – it's not the same as OpenShift? So what is OpenStack? If these questions are on your mind and you want to learn more about why OpenStack is used by many large organizations to build their own private cloud offering than listen to this 101 talk with Dirk Wallerstorfer (@wall_dirk). We learn about the different OpenStack core controller services (Cinder, Horizon, Keystone, Ne...

Todd DeCapua has been a performance evangelist for many years. In his recent work and publications, which includes Effective Performance Engineering ( http://www.effectiveperformanceengineering.com/ ) as well as several publications on outlets such as TechBeacon ( https://techbeacon.com/contributors/todd-decapua ), he introduces DevOps best practices to improve the 5 S-Dimensions: Speed, Stability...

For our one year anniversary episode, we go “back to basics”, or, better said, “back problem patterns”. We picked three patterns that have come up frequently in recent “Share Your PurePath” sessions from our global user base and try to give some advice on how to identify, analyze and mitigate them: · Bad Multi-threading: Multi-threading is not a bad thing – but if done wrong it doesn’t allow your...

In this second episode with Goranka Bjedov from Facebook, we learn details about how Facebook monitors their infrastructure, services, applications and end users. Why they built certain tooling, and how & who analyzes that data. We then shifted gears to development where we learned how the onboarding process of developers works and that Goranka herself made her first production deployment within t...

Goranka Bjedov ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/goranka-bjedov-5969a6/ ) has an eye over the performance of thousands of servers spread across the data centers of Facebook. Her infrastructure supports applications such as Facebook Social Network, WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger. We wanted to learn from her how to manage performance in such scale, how Facebook engineers bring new ideas to the market...

In the second episode with Rick Boyd (check out his GitHub repo - https://github.com/DJRickyB ) we talk about how performance engineering evolved over time – especially in an agile and DevOps setting. It’s about how to evolve your traditional performance testing towards injecting performance engineering into your organizational DNA, providing performance engineering as a service. Making it easy ac...