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.@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.

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/HygieiaTwitter *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