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Security is everyone’s business. And as everyone seems to be moving to Cloud Native it's important to understand what the security landscape in k8s, containerized apps, serverless, … looks like.To learn more about this we invited Anais Urlichs (@urlichsanais), Developer Advocate at Aqua Security and CNCF Ambassador of the year 2021. Over the past years Anais has educated thousands of people on cloud native, devops and security on her YouTube Channel.Tune in and learn more about the different approaches to security in cloud native, which open source projects are out there and how her advise on embedding security in your day2day work.Some additional links we discussed can be found here:Anais on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/urlichsanais/Anais on Twitter: https://twitter.com/urlichsanaisTrivy: https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivyWeekly DevOps Newsletter: https://anaisurl.com/WTFisSRE Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zL61AiOaK0Anais’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/AnaisUrlichsAqua Open

While this episode started out with a recap of April Edwards (@TheAprilEdwards) keynote called “Putting the Ops into DevOps” we quickly got April talk about what measures Microsoft has set to embrace the cultural change needed for their DevOps transformation: Every service has a public health dashboard, putting the customer in the center, make products open source, eat your own dog food, align your objectives with the team, …Besides this great conversation that finally gave some great input on what cultural change really looks like we learned from her background in Ops, moving to Dev, getting into the cloud and now inspiring Ops teams to have it easier in their job using automation. Tune in, learn and get inspired. We also talked about the late Abel Wang and how Microsoft UK is supporting Girls Who Code.Show Links:April on Linkedinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/azureapril/April on Twitterhttps://twitter.com/TheAprilEdwardsPutting the Ops into DevOps keynotehttps://globalazure.at/sessions/#323994Supporting Girls

Feature Flagging has gained a lot of momentum which we can observe by counting the number of feature flagging solutions. To ensure a good developer experience when implementing feature flags the CNCF OpenFeature project was launched during KubeCon 2022 in Valencia. It is aiming to provide a feature flag standard similar to what OpenTelemetry did for Observability.Tune in to this podcast where we have two of the founding members Mike Beamer and Todd Baert explain why it was the right time to initiate the project, which problems it solves and what use cases feature flagging brings to organizations.If you want to learn more about the project check out the following resources discussed during the podcastWebSite: https://openfeature.dev/GitHub: https://github.com/open-featureCommunity: https://github.com/open-feature/communityITPro Today Launch Coverage: https://www.itprotoday.com/testing-and-quality-assurance/open-source-openfeature-project-takes-flight-advance-feature-flags

How do you plan for unplanned work such as fixing systems when they unexpectedly break in production? Just like firefighters – the best approach to practice those situations so that you are better prepared when they happen.In this episode we have Mandi Walls, DevOps Advocate at PagerDuty, explain why she loves Game Days where she is “practicing for the weird things that might happen”. Prior to her current role she worked for Chef and AOL – picking up a lot of the things she is now advocating for. In our conversation Mandi (@lnxchk) gives us insights into how to best prepare and run game days, shared her thoughts on what good chaos scenarios (unreliable backend, slow dns …) are and which health metrics (team health, # incidents out of hours, …) to look at in your current incident response to figure out what a good game day scenario actually is.Mandi on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mandiwalls/In our talk we mentioned a couple of resources – here they are:Mandi’s talk at DevOpsDays Raleigh: https://devo

“The most significant body of my SRE work is architectural reviews, disaster and failover planning and help with SLIs and SLOs of applications that would like to become SRE supported.”This statement comes from Hilliary Lipsig, Principal SRE at Red Hat, as her introduction to what the role of an SRE should be. Hilliary and her teams are helping organizations getting their applications cloud native ready so that the operational aspect of keeping a system up & running and within Error Budgets can be handled by an SRE Team.Listen in to this episode and learn about the key advices she has for every organization that wants to build and operate resilient systems. And understand why every suggestion she makes has to be and will always be evidence-based!In the talk we mentioned a couple of tools and practices. Here are the links:Hilliary on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hilliary-lipsig-a5935245/KubeLinter: https://docs.kubelinter.ioListen to talk Helm and Back again: an SRE Guide to choosing from DevConf.c

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://isitobse

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-a

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-softw

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

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.

The rise of smart phones clearly created a new demand for “instant gratification” when it comes to interacting with online services through web sites or apps. To ensure services are available at any point in time without any interruption or delay it requires performance engineers to automate performance and scalability engineering into the development processes.In this episode we invited Mike Kobush, Performance Engineer at NAIC, to hear how he found his way in quality engineering and later on got hooked on performance. He walks us through current performance challenges as his organization is moving to the cloud. Mike also discusses why he is embracing automation as it makes him more desirable as an employee. He shares his goals and motivations such as: Learning something new every day!Tune in and get inspired by Mike. And remember: it always pays off to spend the extra time with somebody – even if it’s a Sunday afternoon in sunny San Diego!Show Links:Mike on Linkedinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-kobush

What are good business level objectives (BLOs) besides conversion rates? Who is responsible for defining them? Who needs to report and who is held accountable?We invited John Kelly, Sales Engineer at Dynatrace, to answer those and even more questions. John – aka Tech Shady - has been helping our customers over the past years to implement business level reporting for their critical applications. It was exciting to hear that there is much more than your classical availability or conversion rate business metrics. The one we think is really exciting is Engagement Rate. So – tune in and learn for yourselfShow links:John Kelly on Linkedinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/john-kelly-b22b992/John Kelly on Twitterhttps://twitter.com/JohnKelly17

Java developers love using Spring. But running high performing and scaling Java apps in production takes a little bit more than just compiling your code.In this episode we have Asir Vedamuthu Selvasingh who has been working with Java for 26 years. In the past 25 years Asir (@asirselvasingh) helped Microsoft provide services to their developer community that make it easier to deploy, run and operate Java based applications at scale – nowadays on the Azure Spring Cloud offering.Listen in and learn more about observability when deploying apps on the Azure Cloud, which performance and scaling aspects you have to consider and get a look behind the scenes on how your packaged java app magically becomes available across the globe.Show Links:Asir on Linkedinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/asir-architect-javaonazure/Asir on Twitterhttps://twitter.com/asirselvasinghMonitoring Spring Boot Apps with Dynatracehttps://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/spring-cloud/how-to-dynatrace-one-agent-monitorObservability on Azure Spring Cl

If 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 or will be in the future.If you want to learn more from Mark on the topic of performance make sure to check out PerfBytes that has inspired us to launch PurePerformance.Show Links:Mark Tomlinson on Linkedinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/mtomlins/PerfByteshttps://www.perfbytes.com/

Optimizing or debugging database calls has to become as easy as optimizing your application code based on logs, metrics or traces your observability platform provides to developers. It has to be doable by the development and DevOps teams who are becoming more end-2-end responsible which includes new database services that are running in some managed cloud service.In this episode we hear from Nimesh Bhagat, Product Manager at Google, how modern database observability supports development and DevOps teams to better understand, optimize and operate their end-2-end service flow. A great project Nimesh has been working on is sqlcommenter which uses OpenTelemetry to continue distributed traces started in the application into the internals of the database engine.If you want to learn more check out the sqlcommenter documentation or the Google Podcast on Cloud SQL Insights.Show LinksNimesh on Linkedinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/nimesh-bhagat-b062354/SQLCommenterhttps://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/sqlcomme