PurePerformance Cafe

Close to the end of the show it was time to have a quick walk through the Dynatrace Booth. Joking and talking with my colleagues about performance and about our different tool offerings such as Dynatrace Synthetic, AppMon & UEM, DCRUM or Ruxit. We also interrupted some of my colleagues who just enjoyed coffee and pastry. Enjoy!

Bill and his company make the Internet 20 times faster -> just like PiedPiper – but in their case it is for real and not just a TV show! We get an insight into how their technology works which allows their customers to move data faster over the internet by optimizing package routes. It’s like “The Waze” for internet traffic. I saw it live – really impressive!

Twitter
*Guests:
****Bill Zajac: @BillJZajac
*PurePerformance:
**Hosts
****Andi Grabner: @grabnerandi
****Brian Wilson: @emperorwilson
*Feedback: #PurePerformance @Dynatrace

His big topic is: Quality of data that monitoring tools capture!
He discusses several use cases where monitoring granularity down to 1s is very critical – especially on the infrastructure side in order to identify intermittent problems. On a transactional level, it is important to see every transaction all the time – sampling won’t cut it as you can't do real root cause diagnostics if you don’t know the difference between good and bad. Challenge the tool – pick the one that gives you the data you need –don’t fall short with sampling!

Twitter
*Guests:
****Jon Hodgson: @JonQ
*PurePerformance:
**Hosts
****Andi Grabner: @grabnerandi
****Brian Wilson: @emperorwilson
*Feedback: #PurePerformance @Dynatrace

Chatting with Dominic over a coffee on his current performance issue with their .NET Application: a memory issue their customers faced when running their apps. He talks about which diagnostics tools he used, where he struggled, and why he had to use different tools to actually find the problem.
Great summary of the sessions he visited, which metrics he is interested in and which vendors he found interesting!

Twitter
*Guests:
****Dominic McGinnis: @irishhombrebeer
*PurePerformance:
**Hosts
****Andi Grabner: @grabnerandi
****Brian Wilson: @emperorwilson
*Feedback: #PurePerformance @Dynatrace

Page Performance is very important for eCommerce and therefore for Grainger. Key items for them right now are to find the best metrics and define “actionable” alerting for Ops in case something goes wrong. We also discussed the “Shocking News” given by Tammy Everts and Pat Meenan who claimed that Render Time is not influential for conversion and user experience! WHAT does that mean for us now?

Twitter
*Guests:
****Bryan Einwalter: @perfchicago
****Venkata Thota: @beinwal
*PurePerformance:
**Hosts
****Andi Grabner: @grabnerandi
****Brian Wilson: @emperorwilson
*Feedback: #PurePerformance @Dynatrace

Adam and Topo discuss how CapitalOne measures and optimizes the throughput of their pipeline, how important early performance testing is and how they use a lot of open source tools to run large scale functional and load tests. In addition, hear about their DevOps Dashboard which they've open sourced on github:
https://github.com/capitalone/Hygieia

Twitter
*Guests:
****Adam Auerbach: @Bugman31
****Topo Pal: @TopoPal
*PurePerformance:
**Hosts
****Andi Grabner: @grabnerandi
****Brian Wilson: @emperorwilson
*Feedback: #PurePerformance @Dynatrace

Steve and Andi discuss the importance of metrics, which ones we have right now and which ones Steve believes will become more important in the future.

Twitter
*Guests:
****Steve Souders: @souders
*PurePerformance:
**Hosts
****Andi Grabner: @grabnerandi
****Brian Wilson: @emperorwilson
*Feedback: #PurePerformance @Dynatrace