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 built a fully automated “Content Delivery Pipeline”. The team decided to leverage Git, static generated web content, immutable infrastructure, and Dynatrace OneAgent monitoring. Production deployments happen twice a day but staging and development deployments – using the same deployment pipelines – happen much more frequently. The result is a very flexible delivery pipeline, fully version controlled content, a very secure and fast website and everything monitored with Dynatrace. Thanks Markus for letting us look behind the scene of www.dynatrace.com

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 the impact of features being toggled and how to make sure you don’t end up in a toggle mess.

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 longer about being seen as a quality gate (and sometimes bottleneck) in the deliver cycle. Finn is sharing his experience from a recent project with a large German automobile company where he helped transform the development teams to shift-left on quality but not only for the software they develop and test, but also for the type of features they implemented and how they see quality as a whole in their end-to-end delivery cycle. Interesting lessons learned on how to speed up delivery, increase quality and make everyone part of the game!

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 transform into a modern operations team that automates things that humans shouldn’t do – such as staring at dashboards on walls 😊Erik is also presenting at Dynatrace PERFORM 2018. Make sure to check out his session to learn first hand! https://www.dynatrace.com/perform/speakers/

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 political sense), tackled the Configuration Drift issue, and how his team became a Service Organization powering the innovation at Dynatrace R&D. Get a glimpse of his talk track from his presentation at #devone.at - https://speakerdeck.com/markusheimbach/infrastructure-as-code As another teaser: you will hear about Test Automation of Infrastructure Code, leveraging Docker and Kubernetes (k8s) and how to use and leverage Immutable Infrastructure!

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 the differences are between Agile in Dev and Agile in Ops, which metrics they use to measure the success and how they are now pushing towards a DevOps transformation from Ops towards Dev.If you want to chat live with Nestor and Abeer then take the chance and meet them at PERFORM 2018 ( http://perform.dynatrace.com ) where they give us more insights into their transformation

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 the key use cases of IoE are and how proper monitoring of these devices might have been the key to detect the attack before it actually happened.To learn more about this exciting next big thing we suggest to start with Harald’s latest blog posts on his most favorite topic.

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 for developers to push their code changes automatically, packaged as containers, into different environments without having to worry about where and how these containers run or how they scale up & down. You should also check out his presentations from Red Hat Summit on Monitoring and Logging in OpenShift ( https://www.slideshare.net/martinetmajer ) as well as more material on http://www.dynatrace.com/openshift.