Jay Livens

Jay leads product marketing for Dynatrace’s Applications and Microservices and Digital Experience portfolios. He has held a range of marketing roles in both large and small companies and has also worked as a quota carrying sales rep and financial analyst. In his free time, he enjoys running, digital photography and automating his home with open source technologies and custom Python applications.

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What is distributed tracing, and why is it important?

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Three ways to optimize open source contributions

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What is an open ecosystem? How an ecosystem strategy delivers open source benefits

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Observability vs. monitoring: What’s the difference?

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What is observability? Not just logs, metrics and traces

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What are microservices, and what are their benefits?

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How to maximize serverless benefits and overcome its challenges

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Dynatrace named global winner for best observability platform by Research in Action in their 2022 Vendor Selection Matrix™

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What is a message queue? How an observability platform eases message queue monitoring

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Weighing a microservices approach means covering all architecture bases

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Microservices vs. monolithic architecture: Understanding the difference

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Observability platform vs. observability tools

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What is synthetic monitoring? How emulating user paths improves outcomes

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How to overcome the cloud observability wall

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AWS observability: AWS cloud monitoring best practices for resiliency

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How to evaluate modern APM solutions

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What is Google Cloud Functions?

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AWS serverless services: Exploring your options

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What is API monitoring?

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APM tools vs. APM platform: What’s the difference?

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What is Azure Functions?

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What is AWS Lambda?

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What is serverless computing?

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