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The world is slowly moving back to having on-site meetings and conferences – such as DevOpsDays in Raleigh, NC where Andi presented on “Oh Keptn, my Keptn”.Besides presenting Andi also visited several organizations on his road trip through North Carolina and Texas. Listen in and learn what the adoption challenges of DevOps & SRE are, how to define good SLOs (Service Level Objectives) and how to explain the difference between containers and microservices. Also check out the following links Brian and Andi discussed:State of SRE Report: https://www.dynatrace.com/info/sre-report/DevOpsDays Raleigh: https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-raleigh/program/andreas-grabner SLOConf: https://www.sloconf.com/WTFisSRE: https://www.cloud-native-sre.wtf/Keptn: https://www.keptn.sh

OpenTelemetry, for some the biggest romance story in open source, as it took off with the merger of OpenCensus and OpenTracing. But what is OpenTelemetry from the perspective of a contributor? Listen to this episode and here it from Daniel Dyla, Co-Maintainer OTel JS and W3C Distributed Tracing WG, and Armin Ruech who is on the Technical Committee focusing on cross language specifications. They give us insights into what it takes to contribute and drive an open source projects and give us an update on OpenTelemetry, the current status, what they are working on right now as well as the near future improvements they are excited about.Show Links:The OpenTelemetry Projecthttps://opentelemetry.io/Daniel Dylahttps://engineering.dynatrace.com/persons/daniel-dyla/Armin Ruechhttps://engineering.dynatrace.com/persons/armin-ruech/List of instrumented librarieshttps://opentelemetry.io/registry/Contribute to OTelhttps://opentelemetry.io/docs/contribution-guidelines/OpenTelemetry Tutorials on IsItObservablehttps://isitobservable.io/open-telemetry

When moving to the cloud - have you thought of the performance difference between App Gateway and Application Load Balancers? The disk speed and disk cache limitations impacting Cassandra and or Elasticsearch Performance? Challenges with pre-built containers or resource limits on pods impacting Java Garbage Collection behavior?These are all performance considerations Klaus Kierer, Senior Software Engineer in the Cluster Performance Engineering Team at Dynatrace, has learned over the past months as he helped performance optimize the Dynatrace Platform as it was expanded from running on AWS Compute to run on Kubernetes hosted in Azure (AKS) or Google Cloud (GKE).Listen in and learn why Performance Engineering is more important than ever as you are moving your workloads to the “hyper-hybrid-cloud”.Show Links:Klaus on Linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/klaus-kierer-67b83a81/Blog - When to use Azure Load Balancer or Application Gateway:https://blog.siliconvalve.com/2017/04/04/when-to-use-azure-load-balancer-or-application-gateway/K8ssandra performance benchmarks on cloud managed Kuberneteshttps://k8ssandra.io/blog/articles/k8ssandra-performance-benchmarks-on-cloud-managed-kubernetes/

Lift and Shift seems to be “the easiest” cloud migration scenario but can quickly go wrong as we hear from Brian Chandler, Principal Sales Engineer at Dynatrace, in this episode.Tune in and learn how latency can be the big killer of performance as you partially move services to the cloud. Brian (@Channer531) also reminds us about why you have to know about the N+1 query problem and the impact in cross cloud scenarios. Last but not least – Brian gives us insights into why Uber might be one of those companies who can change the SRE & SLO culture within partnering organizations.Show Links:Brian Chandler on Linkedinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-chandler-8366663b/Brian Chandler on Twitterhttps://twitter.com/Channer531

Steve Tack has been leading Dynatrace Product Management for the past 10 years. He was one of the few Dynatracer’s delivering the key product announcements from Perform 2022 live from Vegas this year.In this session we recap the key product announcements, which breakouts to watch and which keynotes you don’t want to miss. To make it easier to follow up follow these links:On Demand sessions from Dynatrace Perform 2022Product Announcements: Observability in Multi-Cloud Serverless, Software Intelligence as Code, DevSecOps Automation Alliances, Real-Time Security Attack BlockingShow Links:Steve Tack on Linkedinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/stevetack/Dynatrace Perform On-demand videoshttps://perform.dynatrace.com/2022-globalObservability for Multicloud Serverless Architectureshttps://www.dynatrace.com/news/press-release/dynatrace-delivers-the-industrys-most-complete-observability-for-multicloud-serverless-architectures/Software Intelligence as Codehttps://www.dynatrace.com/news/press-release/dynatrace-delivers-software-intelligence-as-code/DevSecOps Automation Alliance Partner Programhttps://www.dynatrace.com/news/press-release/dynatrace-launches-devsecops-automation-alliance-partner-program/Real-Time Attack Detection and Blockinghttps://www.dynatrace.com/news/press-release/automatic-detection-and-blocking-of-attacks/

Do you regularly go to the gym or are you just wearing your sweat pants and sneakers at home and think that will do it? Or how about agile practices? Do you think by religiously attending your daily standup your colleagues think your performance testing all of a sudden happens within each sprint?Leandro Melendez (aka Senor Performo), a DevRel Advocate for k6 load testing, tells us what he has seen in organizations he is helping to transform their performance engineering practices. The true benefit of becoming Agile, DevOps or whatever the next buzz word is, is to enable engineers with automated performance feedback on their changes. Listen in and also learn about Leandro’s ideas on PDD (Performance Driven Development).Show LinksLeandro on Linkedinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/leandromelendez/Señor Performo Sitehttps://www.srperf.com/K6 Load Testinghttps://k6.io/

“Whether open source or commercial – just focusing on logs, traces and metrics is limiting our conversation and missing the point what observability really is!”, says Dotan Horovits, Tech Evangelist at Logz, in his opening statement in this podcast. Listen an and learn more about why observability is not about collecting data. Observability is rather a data analytics problem as it needs to give humans answers to DevOps, SRE and Business questions.To learn more beyond what was discussed in this podcast listen in to OpenObservability Talks, stay up to date on OpenTelemetry or follow Dotan at @horovitsShow LinksDotan Horovits on Linkedinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/horovits/Open Observability Talkshttps://openobservability.io/Open Telemetry Projecthttps://opentelemetry.io/Dotan Horovits on Twitterhttps://twitter.com/horovits

Who said that automation and data-driven decisions is only for DevOps or SREs? Scalability challenges or quality constraints are just as important to digital marketers like Nina Tollefson, Art Director at Dynatrace.The pandemic caused many events to transform to a fully virtual. That was also true for Dynatrace’s flagship annual global user conference Perform in February 2021. To successfully transform and deliver a flawless experience for Perform attendees, Nina had to embrace automation in her field of work. Just as DevOps engineers Nina updated her tool chain. Figma was a new digital marketing platform of choice to automate, improve collaboration, become more efficient and scale her digital marketing work to support Perform. Today she can cash in on the automation investment she made last year as Perform 2022 is about to start. Thanks to data-driven digital marketing automation it looks like another amazing experience for our global Dynatrace user base. Thanks, Nina, for sharing your story and allowing us to draw many parallels to the DevOps & SRE world.Show LinksNina on Linkedinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/nina-tollefson/Dynatrace Performhttps://www.dynatrace.com/perform-2022/

Log4Shell was an unwelcome early Christmas present for many IT teams around the globe. Asad Ali, Senior Director Dynatrace Sales Engineering, was involved starting December 9th – helping organizations around the world to react to the new vulnerability threat.In our discussion we learn how the vulnerability works technically, how runtime AppSec vulnerability detection eliminates false/positives and how teams around the globe are preparing to protect their software supply chain for future vulnerabilities.To learn more about Log4Shell check out Dynatrace’s Log4Shell Resource Center including educational blogs as well as Asad’s webinar on Detecting and Remediating Log4Shell with Dynatrace webinar.Show LinksAsad Ali on Linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/alikingdom/Dynatrace's Log4Shell Resource Centerhttps://www.dynatrace.com/resource-center/log4j-vulnerabilityDetecting and Remediating Log4Shell with Dynatracehttps://info.dynatrace.com/global-all-wc-dynatrace-for-log4shell-18339-od-fulfillment.html

Encore Presentation - we'll be back in early 2022, until then, here is one of our favorite recent episodes:To k8s or not – that should be the first question to answer before considering k8s. Granted – in many cases k8s is going to be the right choice but don’t just default to k8s because its hip or cool.