PurePerformance Cafe

Lukasz 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/

Karolina 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/

Live 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/

In 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 Links
Dynatrace Performance Bowl 2017 Digital Experience, Live Blog Coverage
https://www.dynatrace.com/blog/dynatrace-performance-bowl-2017-digital-experience-live-blog-coverage/

More Performance Blogs by David
https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidlewisjones

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David 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 Links
Dynatrace Performance Bowl 2017 Digital Experience, Live Blog Coverage
https://www.dynatrace.com/blog/dynatrace-performance-bowl-2017-digital-experience-live-blog-coverage/

More Performance Blogs by David
https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidlewisjones

Follow David Jones on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/davidlewisjones

Josh 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

Anand 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.

OpenStack 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/

Did 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!

If 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/