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Dynatrace
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Dynatrace is the company blog at dynatrace.com, writing about systems and programming. Since 2016, 23 different Hacker News readers have linked it 69 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Dynatrace's site for performance and observability material: web page load benchmarks, why percentiles beat averages for latency, and shift-left testing. Most comments are product mentions or citations.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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What Hacker News says?
This set of benchmarks is often helpful: http://www.dynatrace.com/en/benchmarks/united-states/ Particularly the "last mile" or "Chrome Homepage" tabs. They cover the top websites, grouped into categories like "Retail", "Travel", "Media", etc. The disparity across competitors is pretty stunning, with some websites getting close to 1 second to download/render a page, and others taking 6, 7, 8 , even 10 seconds. And th…
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on “The average size of Web pages is now the average size of a Doom install”Submitted Techniques to beat Arrays.hashCode(byte[]) using Java's own means as a story · 13 points
HN discussionFor some things, you can't even sensibly measure the mean. For example, if you're measuring the mean response time for a service, a single failure/timeout makes the mean response time infinite (because 100 years from now the response still hasn't been received). "Why Averages Suck and Percentiles are Great": https://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/why-averages-suck-and-pe...
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on “How percentile approximation works and why it's more useful than averages”Submitted Show HN: Automate application monitoring with Dynatrace Ruxit as a story · 7 points
HN discussionDynatrace does I think what you describe. It is on various levels - between services, hosts, processes (on different hosts too) and AWS zones. https://dynatrace.com/capabilities/application-topology-disc...
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on “Vizceral Open Source”Submitted Dynatrace introduces Full code-level visibility for Go application monitoring as a story · 4 points
HN discussionNow might be a good time to check out Dynatrace if you are a current New Relic customer. https://www.dynatrace.com/
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on “Tell HN: By default, New Relic will start collecting production log data on 5/3”Submitted Observability Turns Vibe Coding into AI Engineering as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFor those not aware, Shift Left[1] is (at this point) an old term that was coined for a specific use case, but now refers to a general concept. The concept is that, if you do needed things earlier in a product cycle, it will end up reducing your expense and time in the long run, even if it seems like it's taking longer for you to "get somewhere" earlier on. I think this[2] article is a good no-nonsense explainer for…
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on “Shift Left Is the Tip of the Iceberg”Submitted [ANN] Dynatrace introduces custom services for Go applications as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPAGNI is basically a form of Shift Left. https://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/what-is-shift-left-and-w... https://devopedia.org/shift-left
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on “PAGNIs: Probably Are Gonna Need Its (2021)”Submitted Optimizing Jenkins to ensure fast build times with Dynatrace – Dynatrace blog as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe fun begins when you need to find performance issues in production, where you cannot really use profiler. Then you need to jump into APM tools. Unfortunately it seems there nothing really for that level for free, but take this for example: https://www.dynatrace.com/blog/code-level-visibility-for-nod...
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on “Performance bugs – the dark matter of programming bugs”Submitted Monolith to Microservices – How to identify your first Microservice? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI've had good results using DynaTrace for profiling .NET code. They have a Java version that I would try if I needed such a thing: http://www.dynatrace.com/en/technology/java.html What is really helpful is that you can run DynaTrace in production without impacting performance. DynaTrace agents run on the production web/app servers and send data to DynaTrace collectors. This makes resolving production issues way easi…
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on “Most Sampling Java Profilers Are Terrible”Submitted Trades of a Performance Engineer in 2020 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionExpress has way more devs than all of the Python frameworks combined. JS is past, present, and future. This is what the job market looks like: https://www.dynatrace.com/blog/node-js-is-hitting-the-big-ti... On npm, expesss had 538,945 downloads in the last day https://www.npmjs.com/package/express http://blog.builtinnode.com/post/most-installed-packages-acc... "Express is a very popular package with 160,809,503 down…
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on “Show HN: Ice – WSGI microframework to develop small web applications in Python”Submitted OpenStack Monitoring Beyond the Elastic Stack–Part 3: Monitoring with Dynatrace as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everyone owns digital transformation: Collaborate to accelerate success as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What about APM visibility into legacy applications? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Monitoring ASP.NET Core applications as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Cloud migration and cloud operations as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted White Paper: Anomaly Detection for Monitoring [pdf] as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Microservices and container monitoring as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Cloud Foundry monitoring for highly distributed applications as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quit trying to keep up with every new AI tool and keep building as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Context-aware security incident response with Dynatrace Automations and Tetragon as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Seven benefits of AIOps to transform your business operations as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kubernetes: Challenges for Observability Platforms as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What are containers, and how they relate to Kubernetes / OpenStack as a story · 1 points
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