PurePerformance Cafe

Coop has been disrupting retail in the last 150 years. This time it is about offering new mobile ways to connect their loyal customers to their services. As many companies Coop choose a “New Stack” approach for building the new mobile platform. While MS Azure proofed to be a good choice it was clear that Operations and Development had to also think about how to monitor, understand and manage the additional complexity they just added. Jeppe Hedesgaard Lindberg (https://dk.linkedin.com/in/jeppe-hedesgaard-lindberg-7467475 ) gives us insights on how they use Dynatrace SaaS and D.A.V.I.S (https://www.dynatrace.com/meet-davis/ ) to ensure that their new stack initiative is just the start of a new set of innovations to come from Coop.

Sofico’s 50 globally distributed engineers are committing 350 changes which triggering 90 builds per day. To ensure that the pipeline can handle that load and that the quality of the code changes is still good Sofico is using Bamboo, Ant, Selenium, SauceLabs and Dynatrace to check for performance and architectural regressions early on. Listen to some of the reasoning and best practices that Jan Swaelens, Solution Manager at Sofico, shares with us.

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Andi got to chat with Jason McKee (@mckeejm) (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamckee ) and Patrick Huber (https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-huber-36b42138 ) who are enabling Faster Delivery of Applications at Humana using Cloud Foundry. They tell us why they like a PaaS approach for their new apps, why they focus on 12-factor apps and what role monitoring has to play

Chatting with Anand Ahire, Sr Dir of Product Management from Electric Cloud

Electric Cloud started DevOps Enterprise Summit 3 years ago – working with Gene Kim and others helped them to transforming it into a key conference where large enterprises share their DevOps transformation stories.
In this chat we talk about pipelines, containers, microservices, cloud and how Electric Cloud helps companies to build pipelines in a technology and cloud agnostic way – including Dynatrace as one of the tools in the DevOps Toolchain to provide key metrics for the automated feedback loop.

Andi is at Star West in Anaheim (Disneyland). Besides joking with Mickey Mouse and Donald he also got to chat with Kirk Tuxhorn from Neotys about how load testing companies see and deal with the “Shift-Left Performance” movement. It is all about automation, integration and opening it up to a transforming set of performance engineers who are now embedded in the “DevOps / Continuous Delivery” Teams.

For some reason, Andi was in Madison, Wisconsin. He got a chance to catch up with Derek Abing (https://www.linkedin.com/in/derekabing ) from Sentry Insurance. They talked about the evolution of Dynatrace AppMon & UEM within Sentry Insurance. In particular, how it evolved from App Monitoring to Enterprise System Monitoring replacing several of their other tools they had in place such as SCOM, OpenView, SiteScope. Derek was also part of our Dynatrace AppMon & UEM 6.5 Early Access Program and sees this as a major step forward to make everyone a Performance Expert thanks to the enhancements in the Web Dashboards, Transaction Flow and the Automatic Problem Detection.

Andi is at JavaOne in San Francisco. In this episode of PurePerformance Cafe, Andi talks with Pieter Humphrey (@PieterHumphrey) from Pivotal talking about Platform as a Service (PaaS) and how the benefit of having developers focus on just writing code can also be a challenge as bad code can do a lot of harm in terms of PaaS and IaaS costs.

Check this episode to learn more about Cloud Foundry as well as other PaaS providers, the promises and hopes but also the potential challenges.

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Andi is at JavaOne in San Francisco. In this episode of PurePerformance Cafe, Andi talks to Carlos Sanchez (@csanchez) of CloudBees about moving from Monolith to Microservices. by moving Jenkins, scaled at thousands of worker instances, to the cloud. They also talk about the importance of performance in the pipeline - how to bake it in earlier - so that companies that use Cloud Bees can actually push good code through an optimized, cloud based pipeline.

Alexander Scheran and Arno Huetter (@ArnoHu) share their insights on how Dynatrace Engineering changed over the last 10 years, how they managed to keep developers in the center of innovation, what culture means for them and how in general the day-to-day life at Dynatrace R&D looks like allowing them to rapidly develop and deploy software on a continuous basis. We recommend to listen in, in case you work for a company that has grown over the years and you wish you could still operate as if you would be a startup!

Dynatrace Pipeline State UFO - https://github.com/Dynatrace/ufo

Dynatrace jobs in Linz, Austria - http://jobs.dynatrace.at/

Andi chats with Jon Anhold (@perlguy9) from Rosetta and Aaron Volkmann (@AaronvOlk) from Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute – both DevOps Advocates – after they participate in a DevOps Panel discussion at a Dynatrace event in Cleveland, OH. Their teams help their customers transform towards a new “DevOpsy” way to develop, test, deploy and run software. In the interview they reflected on what type of transformation their customers go through, how to start, where they struggle and how important monitoring and metrics are in that process.