PurePerformance Cafe

Alois Mayr gives us a great overview of Istio, why it is such a hot topic right now and he covers the key use cases offered by its core component Envoy: traffic routing, deployment automation, secure communication, logging and monitoring.Alois is Product Manager for Kubernetes at Dynatrace and therefore always trying to drive the product forward to support use cases our customers are demanding. This includes: what’s happening within Istio istelf? Does it impact latency between services? How about code-level and not just request level visibility? Our users also demand end user monitoring as well as the ability to support full stack and cross platform. If you want to learn more also check out this blog from Adam who covered his learnings from Google NEXT 2018.https://twitter.com/mayraloishttps://istio.io/https://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/google-cloud-next-2018-recap/

In a recent meetup I saw Ernst Ambichl, Chief Product Architect at Dynatrace, talk about the Dynatrace architecture, how the requirements impacted some of the decisions and how Dynatrace now supports thousands of hosts on a single Dynatrace tenant (SaaS or Managed). I got to chat with Ernst to recap the highlights of the Dynatrace architecture and how he and his team uses Dynatrace in their daily development work to ensure a scalable, reliable and high performing monitoring solution for all Dynatrace customers, partners and trial users!

Security is a hot topic – but not always that interesting for the regular developer who just wants to write new functionality. Daniel Deogun (@DanielDeogun) and Daniel Sawano (@DanielSawano)– two speakers I just met at Devoxx Poland – are advocating for Security by Design which not only ensures more secure software but is also appealing to developers. Listen in and learn about the key security principles and how to enforce them and make sure to watch out for their book which will be released later this year.http://devoxx.pl/https://twitter.com/@DanielDeogunhttps://twitter.com/@DanielSawanoSecure by design book: https://bit.ly/2mCl5Vo

Andi bumped into Stephen Hull ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/hullst/ ) who is leading one of our Dynatrace ONE teams out of Detroit, Michigan. Stephen explained to us how Dynatrace ONE, available for all Dynatrace customers, is redefining the user experience when working with our Dynatrace solution offerings – whether it is SaaS or Managed. He gives us insights how these teams are structured, how to interact and leverage these teams and what else comes with the “Dynatrace ONE Experience”!

Brian speaks with Elliott Church & Tuhin Mitra from Big Data Ignite, and Nolen Akerman of Kellogg, about the upcoming Big Data Ignite conference in Grand Rapids, MI, September 19-21, 2018.

Peter Zahrer ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-zahrer-5b4a7b107/ ) and Roman Windischhofer ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/romanlw/ ), two Technical Dynatrace Product Managers, give us insights into how they are redefining Dashboarding, how the feedback process works that influences the product roadmap and give us an outlook on what is coming up soon when we talk about Dashboarding in Dynatrace. The best way to get in touch with them is through their sticky note on our Dynatrace Community: http://bit.ly/dashboard-roadmap . Also keep an eye on their What’s New blog posts and Performance Clinics such as AI-Powered Dashboarding with Dynatrace.https://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/author/roman-windischhofer/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0AkSVHyO_I

Mark Heistek ( https://twitter.com/MarkHeistek ), a biomimicry expert, reminded us how much we can learn from nature by mimicking natures behavior. Check out this recap of his session and also learn how he applied lessons from nature with the Dutch Railroad Company. More details about his talk on DevOps Tallinn website. ( https://www.topconf.com/conference/devops-tallinn-2018/talk/devops-by-nature-how-do-we-learn-from-ants-and-bees/ )

Acacio Cruz ( https://twitter.com/acaciocruz ), Director Software Engineering at Google, gives us insights into how Google manages large scale microservices and how they automate the creation of all configuration files, e.g: Test as Code, Monitoring as Code, … More details about his talk on the DevOps Tallinn website. ( https://www.topconf.com/conference//devops-tallinn-2018/talk/managing-microservices-how-to-tame-a-sprawling-set-of-services/ )

Arnab Sinha ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/arnabsinha4u/ ), Continuous Delivery and ChatOps expert, gave us a great overview on ChatOps, how to get started, how to proof the value and how to scale. More details about his talk on the DevOps Tallinn website. ( https://www.topconf.com/conference/devops-tallinn-2018/talk/chatops-what-s-how-s-possibilities/ )

Jan de Vries ( https://twitter.com/Jan_de_V ), Solution Architect at 4dotnet, gave us a great overview of monoliths vs microservices, how to best migrate and also what to avoid. More details about his talk on the DevOps Tallinn website. ( https://www.topconf.com/conference/devops-tallinn-2018/talk/no-nouns/ )

Ryan Townsend ( https://twitter.com/RyanTownsend ) gave us insight into how they are launching large scale ecommerce websites, how to optimize web performance and why it is more important to deliver a fast experience vs no experience at all. More details about his talk on the DevOps Tallinn website. ( https://www.topconf.com/conference/devops-tallinn-2018/talk/don-t-panic-how-to-launch-large-scale-sites-with-calm-and-confidence/ )

Henrik Rexed ( https://twitter.com/Hrexed ) of Neotys joins us to tell us about the awesome Virtual Performance Advisory Council, a free online Performance based conference, taking place around the globe on June 6. Check out the list of speakers and sign up to attend the free virtual event herehttps://www.neotys.com/performance-advisory-council

James Kitson, Guardian on the Dynatrace Expert Services Team ( https://twitter.com/jimm_with_a_j ), helps kick off a new show within the PurePerformance Cafe called Tales From The Trenches. These stories come from either his or his colleagues experiences in the real world, where they used Dynatrace to help save the day. In this first episode, James discusses what happened when developers fixed some code and didn't tell anybody about it.

If you always thought that Microsoft only awards the MVP title to people that are deeply engaged with Microsoft technology then you are as wrong as I was. Stefan Baumgartner ( https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/PublicProfile/5003003?fullName=Stefan%20%20Baumgartner ), Dynatrace Web Dev Team Lead, was awarded by Microsoft thanks to his contribution in the open source community and his achievements around web development and web performance. Listen in, check out his blog ( https://fettblog.eu ) or try to catch him at one of the upcoming conferences such as www.devone.at

In today’s IoT environments more and more functionality is moved from the cloud to the edge. To reduce the amount of data that needs to be sent over networks and overcome the risk of outages, logic is being executed close to the data origins.But that causes complexity of such environments to increase vastly. Join us at the IoT breakfast at Perform 2018 on Wednesday, Jan 31st from 8am till 9am!Ian Perez Ponce from Amazon Web Services and Harald Zeitlhofer from Dynatrace will inform you about new trends in edge processing and monitoring:• AWS Greengrass• Snowball Edge• Lambda@Edge• New features in Dynatrace Monitoring for these servicesIf you want to join us send a note to iot @ dynatrace.com as space is limited!

Monitoring your hamster? Integrating Dynatrace into Jenkins? Extending the Dynatrace CLI? Self-Healing Scripts? Generic Execution Plugin? These are just some of the ideas for the Dynatrace PERFORM Hackathon which is introduced by Daniel Dyla and Andi Grabner. With only 3 weeks left until PERFORM its time to start implementing the extension you always wanted to build for Dynatrace based on the open Dynatrace API and the Integration Interfaces Dynatrace provides. Finalize the project at PERFORM. Best thing: "What happens in Vegas won't just stay in Vegas". We will promote each project and the get the best ideas on stage!

The Dynatrace UFO has completely changed our way of thinking about quality. But whats next? How do we keep that UFO spirit alive and thriving? Stefan Frandl and Andi Grabner discuss some additional ideas on what might be next

What if you have thousands of tests but not the time to execute them for every build? Well – we must be smart with selecting which tests to execute to give high quality feedback. In this café Stefan Frandl gives us some thoughts on Test Ranking and smart test selection to ensure that the right tests are executed to achieve high quality feedback

We always talk about monitoring systems – but what about monitoring the health of our development teams? Wouldn’t it be great to have some early warning indicators if quality of teams or individual’s changes? In this café Andi Grabner discusses some thoughts on developer health monitoring with Stefan Frandl from our Dynatrace Linz Lab

Every year, our own David Jones blogs is coverage of Black Friday/Cyber Monday performance successes and Failures. Join us as we get live updates from David.Follow Jonesy's blog in real time:https://www.dynatrace.com/blog/2017-cyber-week-coverage-black-friday-cyber-monday-retail-digital-performance/

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 LinksDynatrace Performance Bowl 2017 Digital Experience, Live Blog Coveragehttps://www.dynatrace.com/blog/dynatrace-performance-bowl-2017-digital-experience-live-blog-coverage/More Performance Blogs by Davidhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/davidlewisjonesFollow David Jones on Twitter:https://twitter.com/davidlewisjones

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 LinksDynatrace Performance Bowl 2017 Digital Experience, Live Blog Coveragehttps://www.dynatrace.com/blog/dynatrace-performance-bowl-2017-digital-experience-live-blog-coverage/More Performance Blogs by Davidhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/davidlewisjonesFollow 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/

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.

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.@JanSwaelenshttps://be.linkedin.com/in/janswaelens

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 CloudElectric 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.Related Links:* Pivotal Cloud Free Trial***** http://run.pivotal.io/

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/ufoDynatrace 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.