PurePerformance Cafe

Shift-Left Performance is a topic that is dear to my heart. Thanks to Grzegorz Witczak, Engineer at the Dynatrace Test Automation Team, Dynatrace users can automatically detect architectural, performance and scalability regressions by analyzing the execution of unit and functional tests. Grzegorz explains some of the hidden secrets they implemented, how it integrates with Jenkins, Bamboo, … and the most common testing frameworks

Michal Weyer is an Engineer at Dynatrace. Before Dynatrace he worked in different large organizations building applications, taking the database that stores data for granted. Now at Dynatrace he is building performance monitoring for databases that are accessed by applications – allowing developers to better learn what impact their code has on the database. Want to meet him face2face? He will soon be presenting at the local meetup groups in Gdansk, Poland and probably at one of the next Dynatrace TechShare’s:
https://dynatracetechshare.evenea.pl/

Gdansk, Poland can be considered the “Silicon Valley” of Poland with many national and international IT companies having offices in the Tri-City area. I got to chat with Wiktor Bachnik (@wbachnik) from Dynatrace Poland and what his motivation is to start a new cross company APM Community in Gdansk. He wants to bring people together and share their experience when it comes to building better quality and better performing software. He and his team started this journey early December with the first TechShare – more will come.

If you want to learn more check out https://dynatracetechshare.evenea.pl/

Roland Mungenast (https://at.linkedin.com/in/rmungenast ) is one of our Chief Software Architects for Dynatrace AppMon & UEM. He told me that one of the biggest challenges in the last year was the growing number of production installations of Dynatrace and the increased number of support tickets we saw. Roland explains how we started instrumenting Dynatrace with Dynatrace to capture more diagnostics information in customer environments where Dynatrace was not running smooth. This limited the effort when dealing with support issues and gives our engineering team more time to innovate on new product ideas. Want to check out the product Roland is helping to improve? Get your own Personal License @ http://bit.ly/dtpersonal

Kurt Aigner (@KurtAigner) is a Technical Product Manager at Dynatrace – responsible for the On-Premise AppMon & UEM solution. He gives us an overview of how Dynatrace involves its end users into the decision process for future product enhancements. We discuss the usage of built-in product feedback channels, usage of the online community answers.dynatrace.com as well as leveraging Early Access Programs and tight relationship with our field team. If you want to see his product in action – get your own personal license and access to the community through http://bit.ly/dtpersonal

Do you wonder what CloudFoundry is? What does it have to do with Pivotal or IBM BlueMix? What are the special monitoring use cases and how does Dynatrace address it? I got Alois Mayr (@mayralois) – Technology Lead for Cloud Foundry at Dynatrace – on this interview today. If you want to learn more about this topic check out our free trial offering: https://www.dynatrace.com/technologies/cloud-and-microservices/cloud-foundry-monitoring/

SAP Hybris is a world class eCommerce solution. Dynatrace has been a partner of hybris for several years where Reinhard Brandstaedter (@rebrandstaedter) – Technology Lead for hybris at Dynatrace – created an out of the box Dynatrace FastPack allowing hybris customers to optimize performance, user experience and ultimately conversion rates of their hybris implementation. In this interview I got Reinhard to talk about some of the lessons learned, success stories and got tips on how to get started. Want to see it live? Then check out this: http://bit.ly/dtforhybris

If you haven’t heard about OpenShift, which problems it solves and why you need a good monitoring strategy for it then listen to this PurePerformance Café with Martin Etmajer (@metmajer)– Technology Lead for OpenShift at Dynatrace.
If you want to learn more check out https://www.dynatrace.com/technologies/cloud-and-microservices/openshift-monitoring/ and give it a test run with our free trial.

In the first PurePerformance Café episode Bernd explained how his team has reduced cycle time of the code pipeline from 1w to 2h for core Dynatrace components. I wanted to learn more about how he sees the role of his team – the Test Automation Team – which provides the actual pipeline and the tooling that allows developers to push code faster through a pipeline. The most interesting comment he made was: “I am a Developer. Initially I wasn’t sure if I wanted to do Test Automation – but what we do here is developing an actual product and touching every piece of technology you can imagine. This makes me love my job!”. Want to join his team: http://jobs.dynatrace.com

Got to chat with Bernd Farka (https://www.linkedin.com/in/bernd-farka-6a13a456/en ) – Integration Architect at Dynatrace – talking about how their Test Automation team was challenged with too long execution time of builds. Dynatrace provides Agents for multiple technologies and multiple platforms. That combination and other factors caused full test cycles to take up to 1w. Bernd explains how they broke up the code base into components, moved to Jenkins, Docker and Git and how these measures now allow them to give developers feedback within 2h instead of 1 week.