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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Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

Open-source software drives a vibrant Kubernetes ecosystem. Most Kubernetes clusters in the cloud (73%) are built on top of managed distributions from the hyperscalers like AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), or Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Java, Go, and Node.js

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Open Source Java Operating System Programming 337

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. This includes providing the efficient, resilient services AWS customers expect, while minimizing their environmental footprint.

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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.

Technology 203

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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. Dynatrace news. Full-stack observability.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Fluentd is an open source data collector that decouples data sources from observability tools and platforms by providing a unified logging layer. Set up the configuration on the same port as specified for source data, in this example 5140. 3: Ingest AWS Fargate logs with Fluent Bit. What is Fluentd?

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Introducing Dynatrace OpenPipeline OpenPipeline is a stream-processing technology that transforms how the Dynatrace platform ingests data from any source, at any scale, and in any format. With OpenPipeline, you can easily collect data from Dynatrace OneAgent®, open source collectors such as OpenTelemetry, or other third-party tools.

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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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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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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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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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Percona

MARCH 7, 2023

One approach is to separate compute and storage to allow for independent scaling. It’s an open source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres that utilizes a serverless architecture. It’s an open source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres that utilizes a serverless architecture.

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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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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 also provides tools and integrations with popular open source projects, including Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Jaeger, and Prometheus, among others. What is OpenTelemetry?

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Open Source Analytics Lambda Metrics 189

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. PostgreSQL popularity is skyrocketing in the enterprise space.

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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 124

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 92

Percona

JANUARY 20, 2023

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. The story The case was on AWS using EKS. aws-ebs"} ,storageclass.kubernetes.io/is-default-class=false aws-ebs"} ,storageclass.kubernetes.io/is-default-class=false

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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

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Figure 1: PMM Home Dashboard From the Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation , an instance is considered over-provisioned when at least one specification of your instance, such as CPU, memory, or network, can be sized down while still meeting the performance requirements of your workload and no specification is under-provisioned.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In a time when modern microservices are easier to deploy, GCF, like its counterparts AWS Lambda and Microsoft Azure Functions , gives development teams an agility boost for delivering value to their customers quickly with low overhead costs. Avoid lock-in with open-source technologies. What is Google Cloud Functions?

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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?

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Storage Cloud Open Source Mobile 59

Percona

JANUARY 24, 2023

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). Both your storage and Container Storage Interface (CSI) must support snapshots. For example, the AWS EBS snapshot is priced at $0.05/GB,

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Database Storage Open Source AWS 66

Percona

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Fortunately, there are ways to skip the local storage entirely and stream MongoDB backups directly to the destination. At the same time, the common goal is to save both the network bandwidth and storage space (cost savings!) The two most popular ones — s3cmd and AWS — are sufficient, and I will show examples using both. %H-%M)

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AWS Storage Database Open Source 120

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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Percona

JULY 24, 2023

PBM) introduced a GA version of incremental physical backups , which can greatly impact both the recovery time and the cost of backup (considering storage and data transfer cost). Well, it is because we believe that open source philosophy is not only about the source but also about design and decision-making.

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Availability Open Source Strategy Storage 76

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 37

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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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.

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

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.

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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.

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Storage Cloud Hardware Open Source 40

Percona

APRIL 10, 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. Offered free as an open source solution, Percona XtraBackup drives down backup costs while providing unique features for MySQL backups.

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Open Source Servers AWS Database 77

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. ‍

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Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

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

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

MARCH 28, 2023

To briefly explain pgBackRest, it is an open source backup tool that takes FULL Backup, Incremental Backup, and Differential Backup for PostgreSQL databases. One can configure both repositories in different storage. In case one storage is unavailable, then another storage will still have a backup, which can be helpful.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

by David Berg , Ravi Kiran Chirravuri , Romain Cledat , Savin Goyal , Ferras Hamad , Ville Tuulos tl;dr Metaflow is now open-source! both for compute and storage. For the open-source release, we partnered with AWS to provide a seamless integration between Metaflow and various AWS services.

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