ln a world driven by macroeconomic uncertainty, businesses increasingly turn to data-driven decision-making to stay agile. That’s especially true of the DevOps teams who must drive digital-fueled sustainable growth. They’re unleashing the power of cloud-based analytics on large data sets to unlock the insights they and the business need to make smarter decisions. From a technical perspective, however, cloud-based analytics can be challenging. Data volumes are growing all the time, making it harder to orchestrate, process, and analyze to turn information into insight. Cost and capacity constra ..read more

Just as organizations have increasingly shifted from on-premises environments to those in the cloud, development and operations teams now work together in a DevOps framework rather than in silos. But as digital transformation persists, new inefficiencies are emerging and changing the future of DevOps. According to the 2022 Dynatrace CIO Report, the average organization uses 10 monitoring tools across its technology stack due to silos and inability to scale. Moreover, the average proportion of the technology stack into which organizations have end-to-end observability is 9%. With tool sprawl an ..read more

If you’re in IT, you know how important it is to keep an eye on your systems and infrastructure in real-time. Many organizations now do this real-time facilitation using ChatOps to communicate quickly using a chat client that handles human-to-human and human-to-machine interactions. ChatOps integration brings communication for multiple IT operations tools into a single chat platform. In the past, ITOps teams communicated by phone, email, and other tools, interacting manually with ticketing systems for technical support and incident management. But now, chat platforms like Telegram and Google ..read more

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, ensuring high-quality software is crucial for organizations to thrive. Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. Certain service-level objective examples can help organizations get started on measuring and delivering metrics that matter. Teams can build on these SLO examples to improve application performance and reliability. Measuring application performance is increasingly important because as organizations digitally transform, they’re also acce ..read more

What is DevOps? DevOps is a collection of flexible practices and processes organizations use to create and deliver applications and services by aligning and coordinating software development with IT operations. As DevOps pioneer Patrick Debois first described it in 2009, DevOps is not a specific technology, but a tactical approach. By working together, development and operations teams can eliminate roadblocks and focus on improving how they create, deploy, and continuously monitor software. The shift to DevOps is critical for organizations to support the ever-accelerating developmen ..read more

Keeping pace with modern digital transformation requires ensuring that applications are responsive, resilient, and always available amid increased complexity. As a result, site reliability has emerged as a critical success metric for many organizations. Site reliability engineering (SRE) has recently become a critical discipline in recent years as the world has shifted in favor of web-based interactions. Mobile retail e-commerce spending in the U. S. surpassed $387 billion in 2022, more than double the figure of three years earlier. The volume of travel spending booked online is expected to r ..read more

“Move fast and break things.” How many times have you heard that? Know what? No one likes that. No one likes breaking things. It’s more like: “Move fast and break things—only because you don’t know how to avoid it.” Granted, as a soundbite, that is nowhere near as catchy. But progressive delivery is essentially the solution to that problem: it enables you to move fast and avoid breaking things. How does an organization, especially if they’re not yet doing continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), either at all or well, “move fast and not break things”? The answer: Progressi ..read more

Software industry IT leaders face constant pressure to deliver innovation faster to stay ahead of their competition. End users can easily change providers if they fail to receive the immersive and innovative experiences they expect. In a highly connected world, bad news travels fast. Therefore, any mishaps can affect the brand and its growth.    According to the latest Dynatrace research, which polled 150 IT leaders in software organizations, 81% of respondents say digital transformation has accelerated in the past 12 months. Additionally, nearly one quarter (24%) expect it to conti ..read more

To ensure high standards, it’s essential that your organization establish automated validations in an early phase of the software development process—ideally when code is written. The Dynatrace Site Reliability Guardian is designed for this practice; it allows development teams to define quality objectives in their code, which is validated throughout the delivery process before the code reaches production. While quality standards and validations should ideally be implemented throughout the software development lifecycle, we see teams adopting the Site Reliability Guardian at various stages, f ..read more

The explosive demand for online shopping and the dilution of brand loyalty are here to stay. IT leaders in the retail sector now face pressure to deliver exceptional experiences to improve conversion rates, drive loyalty, and increase revenue. If they fail to digitize and improve interactions, retailers risk losing customers to competitors. As a result, many retailers are shifting to DevSecOps to deliver reliable, secure shopping experiences for customers.  According to the 2023 Dynatrace CIO Report, 94% of retail IT leaders say digital transformation has accelerated during the past ..read more