Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

Modern, cloud-native computing is impossible to separate from containers and Kubernetes adoption. As Kubernetes adoption increases and it continues to advance technologically, Kubernetes has emerged as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022.

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Open Source Java Operating System Programming 347

Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A quick configuration change may do the trick in improving the performance of your AWS RDS for MySQL instance. A Dedicated Log Volume (DLV) is a specialized storage volume designed to house database transaction logs separately from the volume containing the database tables. Who can benefit from DLV? and later v13 versions, 14.7

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Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

If you’re using PostgreSQL in the cloud, there’s a good chance you’re spending more than you need in order to get the results you need for your business. Usage reduction: What to look for to reduce PostgreSQL cloud costs The first step in cost reduction is to use what you need and not more. Don’t pay for capacity you don’t use or need.

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Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 116

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

There's a move to regulate cloud providers by vertically separating the services they offer. Like railroads of yore, who were not allowed to provide freight services on top of their base services, cloud providers would not be allowed to provide services on top of their base platform services. The job of a cloud is to run workloads.

Cloud 187

Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 7, 2019

As this open source database continues to pull new users from expensive commercial database management systems like Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server, organizations are adopting new approaches and evolving their own to maintain the exceptional performance of their SQL deployments. Most Popular Cloud Providers for PostgreSQL Hosting.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

The Pantheon in Rome — Extremely sustainable architecture — photo by Adrian I wrote a medium post after AWS re:Invent 2022 summarizing the (lack of) news and all the talks related to Sustainability. Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure released Scope 3 data in 2021. Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure released Scope 3 data in 2021.

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AWS Energy IoT Best Practices 52

Scalegrid

JULY 8, 2019

Are you looking to get started with the world’s most popular open-source database, and wondering how you should setup your MySQL hosting ? So many default to Amazon RDS, when MySQL performs exceptionally well on Azure Cloud. The Best Way to Host MySQL on Azure Cloud Click To Tweet. MySQL DBaaS vs. Self-Managed MySQL.

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Azure Cloud Virtualization Database 219

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit for services and applications that run in containers. Prometheus components include client libraries for application code instrumentation, special-purpose exporters for popular services, and the optional Prometheus server for orchestrating service discovery and data storage.

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Technology Technology Monitoring AWS 216

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Kubernetes (k8s) provides basic monitoring through the Kubernetes API and you can find instructions like Top 9 Open Source Tools for Monitoring Kubernetes as a “do it yourself guide”. PostgreSQL & Elastic for data storage. AWS EKS for Integration and Production. Full-stack observability. End-to-end code-level tracing.

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AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda 128

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

While many organizations have embraced cloud observability to better manage their cloud environments, they may still struggle with the volume of entities that observability platforms monitor. Fluentd is an open source data collector that decouples data sources from observability tools and platforms by providing a unified logging layer.

Strategy 185

Strategy AWS Open Source Transportation 185

Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2019

MySQL is a free open source relational database management system that is leveraged across a majority of WordPress sites, and allows you to query your data such as posts, pages, images, user profiles, and more. Host MySQL on AWS , or MySQL on Azure with configurable instance sizes through the top two cloud providers in the world.

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Database Cloud Website Azure 166

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there are multiple questions regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily: When should I use Aurora and when should I use RDS MySQL ? Amazon Aurora is a proprietary, cloud-native, fully managed relational database service developed by Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

From May 17 to May 18, 2021, the Open-Source Engineering team at Dynatrace attended the virtual observability conference, o11yfest. The second focused on the OTel community, with more technical talks by representatives from companies like AWS, Elastic, and more. Trace-based sampling can help you save storage costs.

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AWS Strategy Storage Metrics 218

High Scalability

APRIL 3, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. Private Cloud vs. Public Cloud vs. Hybrid Cloud. So what makes PostgreSQL so special, and how is it being used today?

Database 177

Database Cloud Open Source Systems 177

Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2023

OpenTelemetry is an open source framework that provides agents, APIs, and SDKs that automatically instrument, generate, and gather telemetry data. It’s so big that all three major cloud providers are building OpenTelemetry into their own platforms. We believe in open source,” Scherer says. “We

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Open Source Analytics Lambda Metrics 202

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 8, 2021

One of our first partners for the Netflix Workstations is NetFX , a cloud-based VFX platform that enables vendors, artists, and creators worldwide to collaborate on Netflix VFX content. Below is a broad technical overview of how to go from an AWS instance to a Netflix Workstation. Now that you know why, here is how we did it.

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Entertainment Storage Hardware Open Source 306

Percona

JANUARY 30, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive. As such, you save on storage space and data transfer in case of cloud setups. It’s time for the release roundup!

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Open Source Storage AWS Cloud 81

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

RISELabs , those wonderfully innovative folks over at Berkeley, have uplifted their Anna datatabase —a shared-nothing, thread-per-core architecture to achieve lightning-fast speeds by avoiding all coordination mechanisms—to become cloud-aware. No, I don’t think that is because AWS is earning a 355x margin on DynamoDB!

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Storage Performance AWS Efficiency 199

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Troubleshooting a session in Edgar When we started building Edgar four years ago, there were very few open-source distributed tracing systems that satisfied our needs. Our tactical approach was to use Netflix-specific libraries for collecting traces from Java-based streaming services until open source tracer libraries matured.

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Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

The Polyglot Developer

APRIL 6, 2017

When building a mobile application, there are often scenarios where you need to storage files remotely and when I say files, I don’t mean database data. For example, maybe you want to develop an image manager or photo storage solution like what Facebook and Instagram offer?

Storage 59

Storage Cloud Open Source Mobile 59

Scalegrid

JUNE 9, 2020

MySQL and PostgreSQL are the top two open source relational databases in the world, and Redis is the top key-value database. The open source model is not only popular with the developer market, but also enterprise companies looking to modernize their infrastructure and reduce spend.

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Availability Open Source Benchmarking Database 227

Percona

JANUARY 30, 2023

Instead, it seems PostgreSQL Developers are of the opinion that encryption is a storage-level problem and is better solved on the filesystem or block device level. For example, physical backups stored in open S3 buckets are relatively common exposure vectors. It adds defense in depth.

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Database Storage Government Open Source 123

All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

Soon after the launch of Amazon Relation Dabase Service (RDS) AWS customers were giving us feedback that they would love to migrate to RDS but what they would love even more was if we could also unshackle them from the high-cost, punitive licensing schemes that came with the proprietary databases.

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Database Design Cloud Storage 117

Percona

JANUARY 20, 2023

This is even more cumbersome when working on bare metal, as it is more difficult to add space when using this kind of solution with respect to the cloud. When using cloud storage like EBS or similar, it is normally easy(er) to extend volumes, which gives us the luxury to plan the space to allocate for data with a good grade of relaxation.

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AWS Storage Monitoring Cloud 89

Percona

JANUARY 24, 2023

We see the growing adoption of our Percona Kubernetes Operators and the demand to migrate workloads to the cloud-native platform. Our Operators provide built-in backup and restore capabilities, but some users are still looking for old-fashioned ways, like storage-level snapshots (i.e., AWS EBS Snapshots). Restoration is done.

Database 65

Database Storage Open Source AWS 65

Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

From May 17 to May 18, 2021, the Open-Source Engineering team at Dynatrace attended the virtual observability conference, o11yfest. The second focused on the OTel community, with more technical talks by representatives from companies like AWS, Elastic, and more. Trace-based sampling can help you save storage costs.

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AWS Strategy Storage Metrics 147

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

MongoDB is the #3 open source database and the #1 NoSQL database in the world. So, what makes DigitalOcean a compelling alternative to other popular MongoDB hosting providers like AWS and Azure ? DigitalOcean, along with AWS and Azure, offer a 99.99% uptime SLA, but while that sounds close to perfect, that 0.01% equates to 52.6

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Azure AWS Latency Database 187

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It’s not just limited to cloud resources like AWS and Azure; Terraform is versatile, extending its capabilities to key performance areas like Content Delivery Network (CDN) management, ensuring efficient content delivery and optimal user experience.‍Started ‍Why Manage Infrastructure by Code?

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The Polyglot Developer

MARCH 5, 2017

Not too long ago I wrote about an open source object storage software called Minio and how I was using it on my Raspberry Pi for backups. The great thing about Minio is it shares the same APIs as AWS S3, but can be deployed to your own hardware, eliminating Amazon as a dependency.

Storage 40

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., Ford, et al., “TCP on Upcoming Sapphire Rapids CPUs,” [link] Oct 2020 - [Liu 20] Linda Liu, “Samsung QVO vs EVO vs PRO: What’s the Difference?

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Percona

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

It is a common practice that before a backup can be stored in the cloud or on a dedicated backup server, it has to be prepared first locally and later copied to the destination. Fortunately, there are ways to skip the local storage entirely and stream MongoDB backups directly to the destination. 0 document(s) failed to import.

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AWS Storage Database Open Source 118

Percona

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Xbcloud is a tool part of Percona XtraBackup and allows you to upload and download backups to Amazon S3 storage. Summary Percona xbcloud can now utilize an instance profile allowing users to automate access to AWS S3 buckets by removing the need of access/secret-key being provided as parameters or configuration.

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Storage Open Source AWS Servers 90

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

This spring I travelled through Europe for the AWS Global Summit series. Europe is a continent with much diversity and for each country there are great AWS customer examples to tell. Given that I am originally from the Netherlands I have, of course, a special interest in how Dutch companies are using our cloud services. .

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Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 129

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows.

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Nevertheless, there are related components and processes, for example, virtualization infrastructure and storage systems (see image below), that can lead to problems in your Kubernetes infrastructure. Configuring storage in Kubernetes is more complex than using a file system on your host. Cloud provider/infrastructure layer.

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