PurePerformance

“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 @horovits

Show Links
Dotan Horovits on Linkedin
https://www.linkedin.com/in/horovits/

Open Observability Talks
https://openobservability.io/

Open Telemetry Project
https://opentelemetry.io/

Dotan Horovits on Twitter
https://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 to draw many parallels to the DevOps & SRE world.

Show Links
Nina on Linkedin
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nina-tollefson/

Dynatrace Perform
https://www.dynatrace.com/perform-2022/

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 Links

Asad Ali on Linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alikingdom/

Dynatrace's Log4Shell Resource Center
https://www.dynatrace.com/resource-center/log4j-vulnerability

Detecting and Remediating Log4Shell with Dynatrace
https://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 Linkedin
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-kobush-31-performance/

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 yourself

Show links:
John Kelly on Linkedin
https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-kelly-b22b992/

John Kelly on Twitter
https://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 Linkedin
https://www.linkedin.com/in/asir-architect-javaonazure/

Asir on Twitter
https://twitter.com/asirselvasingh

Monitoring Spring Boot Apps with Dynatrace
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/spring-cloud/how-to-dynatrace-one-agent-monitor

Observability on Azure Spring Cloud
https://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/dynatrace-extends-observability-to-azure-spring-cloud/

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 Linkedin
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mtomlins/

PerfBytes
https://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 Links
Nimesh on Linkedin
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nimesh-bhagat-b062354/

SQLCommenter
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/sqlcommenter-merges-with-opentelemetry

SQLCommenter Documentation
https://google.github.io/sqlcommenter/

Google Podcast on Cloud SQL Insights
https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-247-cloud-sql-insights-with-nimesh-bhagat/

If you need to learn how Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Loki, FluentD, FluentBit .. help you with your observability requirements in the cloud native and non-cloud native space but you don’t have hours or days to dig into the details yourself then you have a new place to go to get educated within 20-30 minutes: Is it Observable is a new educational YouTube channel by Henrik Rexed, Cloud Native Advocate at Dynatrace.

In this episode we have Henrik explain the motivation of creating Is it Observable, how to best use the videos and the tutorials on GitHub to educate yourself and gave a glance on upcoming episodes that will also include guests from various tool and platform vendors.

Make sure to subscribe to his channel, check out the tutorials on GitHub and give him feedback on twitter (@hrexed) or LinkedIn

Show Links

Is It Observable YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRiin4u8YZGlVQRZp7qOOaw

Henrik Rexed on Linkedin
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hrexed/

Is It Observable Github Repo
https://github.com/isItObservable

Henrik Rexed on Twitter
https://twitter.com/Hrexed