Scalegrid

JANUARY 3, 2020

Prometheus is an open-source software application used for event monitoring and alerting. ScaleGrid provides full admin access to your MySQL deployments – this makes it easier to integrate the existing MySQL ecosystem of tools with your ScaleGrid MySQL deployments on AWS or Azure.

Monitoring 164

Monitoring Metrics Servers Database 164

Scalegrid

MARCH 12, 2019

In Part II, we’re introducing you to an alternative open source tool, Replication Manager from 2ndQuadrant, to be closely followed by Part III where we dive into our third alternative, Patroni by Zalando. When a server is configured, it needs to be registered with repmgr using repmgr primary/standby register command.

Availability 147

Availability Servers Open Source Database 147

All Things Distributed

APRIL 11, 2018

Last year at re:Invent, we launched AWS Fargate , and today, I want to explore how Fargate fundamentally changes the landscape of container technology. Managing a large server cluster and optimizing the scheduling of containers all backed by a complex distributed state store is counter to the premise of the cloud.

Cloud 148

Cloud AWS Innovation Traffic 148

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on.

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 22, 2023

For instance, Sentinel policies can enforce rules such as "All AWS S3 buckets must have server-side encryption enabled" or "Only specific IAM roles can access certain resources." " Open Policy Agent (OPA) : OPA is an open-source policy as code framework that provides a general-purpose policy engine.

AWS 52

AWS Best Practices Infrastructure Traffic 52

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

After applying the first manifests (which are likely copied and pasted from a how-to tutorial ), a web server is up and running within minutes. Some examples are the network (switches, routers), storage systems (especially when using thin provisioning ), and virtualization infrastructure. Possible solutions.

Virtualization 161

Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 161

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

the order of the rows on your Netflix home page, issuing content licenses when you click play, finding the Open Connect cache closest to you with the content you requested, and many more). All these micro-services are currently operated in AWS cloud infrastructure.

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

Lerner, as a web-service, relies on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Netflix’s Open Source Software (OSS) tools. Lerner uses AWS services to store binary versions of the agents, agent configurations, and training data. Lerner uses AWS services to store binary versions of the agents, agent configurations, and training data.

Testing 163

Testing AWS Lambda Network 163

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

and beyond By Anoop Panicker and Kishore Banala Conductor is a workflow orchestration engine developed and open-sourced by Netflix. Our cluster size ranges from 12–18 instances of AWS EC2 m4.4xlarge instances, typically running at ~30% capacity. *?

Lambda 189

Lambda Media Open Source Metrics 189

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

As database performance is heavily influenced by the performance of storage, network, memory, and processors, we must understand the upper limit of these key components. For example, if you are buying the latest Amazon memory-optimized EC2 instance (R7iz), the AWS page ( [link] ) tells us the following: Up to 3.9 4.22 %usr 38.40

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory.

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

The Symphonia

JUNE 19, 2018

This summer also marks the 4-yearly event that is La Copa Mundial (we only get Telemundo in my apartment, not Fox Sports Network) but since the good old US of A are absent from the men’s World Cup this year, football fever is distinctly frigid. Unlike the temperature outside. John and I (Mike) have had a fun three months. Great stuff!

Serverless 40

Serverless AWS DevOps Open Source 40

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

We use and contribute to many open-source Python packages, some of which are mentioned below. Open Connect Open Connect is Netflix’s content delivery network (CDN). takes place in Amazon Web Services (AWS), whereas everything that happens afterwards (i.e., are you logged in? what do you want to watch?)

Open Source 279

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

A set of programming models has emerged to help developers define and train AI models with deep learning; along with open source frameworks that put deep learning in the hands of mere mortals. Some examples of popular deep learning frameworks that we support on AWS include Caffe, CNTK, MXNet, TensorFlow, Theano, and Torch.

AWS 167

AWS Open Source Scalability Programming 167

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

It can scale towards a multi-petabyte level data workload without a single issue, and it allows access to a cluster of powerful servers that will work together within a single SQL interface where you can view all of the data. High performance, query optimization, open source and polymorphic data storage are the major Greenplum advantages.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

OpenTelemetry , the open source observability tool, has become the go-to standard for instrumenting custom applications to collect observability telemetry data. This allows us to quickly tell whether the network link may be saturated or the processor is running at its limit. Hence it could detect, instrument, and monitor them.

Metrics 171

Metrics Monitoring Database Network 171

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In the Home Dashboard of PMM, a low CPU utilization on any of the database services that are being monitored could mean that the server is inactive or over-provisioned. Marked in red in Figure 1 is a server with less than 30% of CPU usage. These color-coded states on panels are available in PMM 2.32.0

Cloud 118

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 118

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?

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 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 ? This is why we caution against defaulting to Azure Database, or it’s AWS competitor, Amazon RDS, as they do not allow you to keep MySQL superuser access or even SSH access to your machines.

Azure 219

Azure Cloud Virtualization Database 219

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.

Database 166

Database Cloud Website Azure 166

The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., It’s a pretty impressive effort to pull together and make available in open source (not yet available as I write this) such a suite, and I’m sure explains much of the long list of 24 authors on this paper.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Network effects are not the same as monopoly control. Maybe start investing into open source alternatives rather than complaining they don't already exist? Cloud providers incur huge fixed costs for creating and maintaining a network of datacenters spread throughout the word. For example, AWS created Nitro.

Cloud 187

Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In fact, Amazon Web Services (AWS) paved the way with its service, CloudFormation, which introduced the concept of Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Taking inspiration from AWS's CloudFormation, HashiCorp introduced Terraform with a broader vision. Take Cloudflare as an example; they have an entire service called Cloudflare Terraform.

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

Time To First Byte (TTFB) This is the time it takes for the first piece of information from the server to reach the user’s browser. You need to beware that slow server response times can significantly increase TTFB, often due to server overload, network issues, or un-optimized logic on the server side.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

Also, we will take a look at our open-source backup utility custom-built to help avoid costs and proprietary software – Percona Backup for MongoDB or PBM. Best practice tip : It is always advisable to use secondary servers for backups to avoid unnecessary performance degradation on the PRIMARY node.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

Percona

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It was a fascinating read, shedding light on leveraging AWS snapshots’ capabilities to avoid initial data copy within the RDS environment. Inspired by David’s insights, I embarked on a journey to explore logical replication from a different perspective – within the realm of on-premises server databases.

Database 76

Database Traffic C++ Servers 76

Smashing Magazine

JULY 18, 2022

Segmented Rendering is a new pattern for the Jamstack that lets you personalize content statically, without any sort of client-side rendering or per-request Server-Side Rendering. Like other similar UI libraries, React provides two ways of rendering content: client-side and server-side. CSR, SSR, SSG… Let’s Clarify What They Are.

Cache 115

Cache Website Energy Servers 115

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

No, I don’t think that is because AWS is earning a 355x margin on DynamoDB! Each storage server collects statistics about the requests it serves, the data it stores, etc. This increases the cores and network bandwidth available to serve common requests. As you can imagine, that was unreasonably expensive.

Storage 199

Storage Performance AWS Efficiency 199

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

FedScoop: There are a lot of solutions that claim to provide a single-pane-of-glass view of agency networks and applications. You’re bringing more servers online in the cloud. Or work with a contractor to build an AI system to identify problems on our network? And that was well before AWS, Azure, and cloud.

Cloud 172

Cloud Monitoring Network Azure 172

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

16% of respondents working with AI are using open source models. If we asked whether their companies were using databases or web servers, no doubt 100% of the respondents would have said “yes.” A year after the first web servers became available, how many companies had websites or were experimenting with building them?

Open Source 108

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

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. At the same time, the common goal is to save both the network bandwidth and storage space (cost savings!) 0 document(s) failed to import. eu-central-2.wasabisys.com"}})

AWS 119

AWS Storage Database Open Source 119

Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 19, 2021

A typical SRE is busy automating, cleaning up code, upgrading servers, and continually monitoring dashboards for performance, etc., Best of all, it is open-source and has a large support community behind it. Golang, or Go, is an open-source programming language created by Google in 2009 that is used to create software programs.

Engineering 86

Engineering Open Source Programming Monitoring 86

O'Reilly

JANUARY 17, 2023

There are various implementations–from the industrial-grade AWS SageMaker Autopilot and Google Cloud Vertex AI , to offerings from smaller players–but, in a nutshell, some developers spotted that same for() loop and built a slick UI on top. Get your results in a few hours. Building a Better for() loop for ML. And it made sense.

Tuning 130

Tuning Open Source AWS Software 130

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Using event sourcing allows us to implement new developer experience features such as the Schema History view. The schema registry also integrates with our CI/CD systems like Spinnaker to automatically setup cloud networking for DGSs. The DGS framework is planned to be open-sourced in early 2021.

Architecture 249

Architecture Best Practices Engineering Open Source 249

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2019

We’re no longer living in an age where large companies require only physical servers, with similar and rarely changing configurations, that could be manually maintained in a single Datacenter. These tools and principles helped us build our SaaS solution in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Dynatrace news.

Code 109

Code Infrastructure DevOps Serverless 109