The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 12, 2023

Netflix has open-sourced Escrow Buddy, which helps Security and IT teams ensure they have valid FileVault recovery keys for all their Macs in MDM. To be a client systems engineer is to take joy in small endpoint automations that make your fellow employees’ day a little better. We call this new tool Escrow Buddy.

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DZone

MARCH 20, 2023

Introduction to HertzBeat HertzBeat is an open source, easy-to-use and friendly real-time monitoring system that does not require Agent and has powerful custom monitoring capabilities. Integrate monitoring-alarm-notification , support monitoring of application services, databases, operating systems, middleware, cloud-native, etc.,

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Percona is dedicated to open source software. But recently, open source software has come under attack. Once open source software is being locked away by changing licenses and code that you depended on. Before open source was available, there was little to no interoperability between computer systems.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The strategic adoption of different database technologies can make or break a company’s success and long-term viability.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is a massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL database that is built and based on PostgreSQL. Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. What is an MPP Database?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 20, 2022

The growing popularity of open source software presents new risks associated with vulnerable libraries. To handle the increasing complexity of open source software, software composition analysis (SCA) has become an important tool. As part of the process, SCA provides a full analysis of open source project health metrics.

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High Scalability

JUNE 8, 2018

Severalnines has spent the last several years writing blogs and crafting content to help make your open source database solutions highly available. Top HA Resources for MySQL & MariaDB.

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Percona

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Today’s businesses face two major challenges when it comes to managing databases: vendor lock-in of public cloud providers and the inherent complexity of running and managing databases. Furthermore, managing a myriad of databases across multiple environments poses a daunting task, requiring significant effort and resources.

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Open Source Social Media Database Media 91

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2021

These are just a few of the open-source technologies you may encounter as you research observability solutions for managing complex multicloud IT environments and the services that run on them. Of these open-source observability tools, one stands out. Then, Google made the OpenCensus project open source in 2018.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

There is a new controversy in the Linkerd community with reports that many Linkerd users will now need to pay to run the software, and it will only be available under a proprietary license. I do not think this is entirely correct. Here are my thoughts on this topic.Linkerd is a CNCF project, where Buoyant […]

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Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Some time ago Federico Toledo published Performance Testing with Open Source Tools- Busting The Myths. Otherwise we wouldn’t see so many commercial tools built on the top of open source including BlazeMeter (it is ironic that the article is posted on the BlazeMeter site), Flood, and OctoPerf.

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Percona

JUNE 2, 2023

While not the first open source content management system (CMS), WordPress caught on like nothing before and helped spread open source to millions. It was simple, easy to deploy, and easy to use, and WordPress had the added benefit of being open source. MySQL was founded in 1995 and went open source in 2000.

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Percona

AUGUST 15, 2023

Last week, yet another company — HashiCorp — announced they are changing the license for the majority of their software from an Open Source License (Mozilla Public License 2.0) to a Business Source License ( BSL ). Commercial open source is going to continue being less open source.

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Percona Community

MARCH 5, 2023

In this post, we will cover the value of database monitoring and how we can use Open Source tools like PMM Percona Monitoring and Management to monitor and manage databases effectively. Why should I care about database monitoring?

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Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

We’re equally convinced on both counts, but in this blog article, we’re focusing on why MongoDB is not open source. Let’s start with this: MongoDB is accurately referred to as source-available software. To be clear, we are rock-solid in our stance that MongoDB is not open source.

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Percona

MARCH 26, 2024

MySQL is a very popular database and a good choice for new projects. Luckily you have several options for this choice.MySQL Community vs. Enterprise EditionsTraditionally, the MySQL Community Edition has been a mainstay in the open source community for decades, and it is available for free. But is it the best choice?Luckily

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Database Open Source Availability Software 74

DZone

JUNE 11, 2020

It's challenging to troubleshoot issues in a distributed database because the information about the system is scattered in different machines. TiDB is an open-source, distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. Before version 4.0, Before version 4.0,

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2021

Dynatrace’s OneAgent automatically captures PurePaths and analyzes transactions end-to-end across every tier of your application technology stack with no code changes, from the browser all the way down to the code and database level. The post Monitoring-as-code through Dynatrace’s Open-Source Initiative appeared first on Dynatrace blog.

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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 14, 2020

October 14, 2020 – ScaleGrid, a leading Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) provider, has just announced the launch of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) hosting through their fully managed DBaaS plans. Google Cloud Platform is the second most popular cloud provider for open source database hosting according to the 2019 Open Source Database Report.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

To maintain competitiveness and operational efficiency — not to mention ensure security and compliance when your database version reaches End of Life (EOL) – it’s crucial to upgrade your database systems from time to time. One of the most compelling reasons to choose a professional service is the reduced risk.

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Database Open Source Best Practices Strategy 91

Percona

APRIL 9, 2024

pg_tde, developed by Percona, is an open source […] For PostgreSQL users, the tech preview release availability of the new encryption extension pg_tde delivers unmatched protection for vital data assets.What is pg_tde?pg_tde,

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Open Source Database Availability Development 107

Scalegrid

APRIL 28, 2020

If you’re hosting your databases in the cloud, choosing the right cloud service provider is a significant decision to make for your long-term hosting costs. Over the last few weeks, we have been inundated with requests from SMB customers looking to improve the ROI on their database hosting. MongoDB® Database. EC2 instances.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Sure, database migration is complex, particularly when you’re looking to migrate from a proprietary database to an open source one. Database migration is almost always time-consuming, tedious, and full of potential pitfalls. Database migration is complex Let’s start here.

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Database Open Source Benchmarking Strategy 81

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Monetize Open-Source Software With Gatsby Functions And Stripe. Monetize Open-Source Software With Gatsby Functions And Stripe. In this article, I’ll be explaining how I’ve used Gatsby Functions and the Stripe API to enable secure “Pay what you want” contributions that help fund my open-source project MDX Embed.

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 26, 2020

Microsoft Azure is one of the most popular cloud providers in the world, and a natural fit for database hosting on applications leveraging Microsoft across their infrastructure. MySQL is the number one open source database that’s commonly hosted through Azure instances. We measure latency in ms 95th percentile latency.

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Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

ScyllaDB is an open-source distributed NoSQL data store, reimplemented from the popular Apache Cassandra database. We’ve heard a lot about this rising database from the DBA community and our users, and decided to become a sponsor for this years Scylla Summit to learn more about the deployment trends from its users.

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Big Data Database Open Source Azure 187

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. A basic high availability database system provides failover (preferably automatic) from a primary database node to redundant nodes within a cluster. HA is sometimes confused with “fault tolerance.”

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Scalegrid

JUNE 11, 2019

Ready to transition from a commercial database to open source, and want to know which databases are most popular in 2019? Wondering whether an on-premise vs. public cloud vs. hybrid cloud infrastructure is best for your database strategy? 2019 Top Databases Used. So, which databases are most popular in 2019?

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Percona Community

MAY 14, 2019

During our presentation at Percona Live 2019 Intel and its software partners will introduce the audience to the work we’re doing to enable an open-source framework, we call Cloud Native Database. This is a collaborative effort between Intel, Rockset, PlanetScale, MariaDB and Percona.

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Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

PostgreSQL is an amazing relational database. There are many things I love about it – PL/ PG SQL, smart defaults, replication (that actually works out of the box), and an active and vibrant open source community. However, beyond just the features, there are other important aspects of a database that need to be considered.

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Database Open Source Storage Servers 184

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

When it comes to enterprise-level databases, there are several options available in the market, but PostgreSQL stands out as one of the most popular and reliable choices. PostgreSQL is a free and open source object-relational database management system (ORDBMS) that has existed since the mid-1990s.

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Database Open Source Traffic Small Business 114

Scalegrid

APRIL 2, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines.

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Database Cloud Open Source Azure 185

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

The strongest Kubernetes growth areas are security, databases, and CI/CD technologies. Open-source software drives a vibrant Kubernetes ecosystem. Strongest Kubernetes growth areas are security, databases, and CI/CD technologies. Open source software drives a vibrant Kubernetes ecosystem.

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Percona

JANUARY 30, 2023

As Ibrar Ahmed noted in his blog post on Transparent Database Encryption (TDE). PostgreSQL is a surprising outlier when it comes to offering Transparent Database Encryption. If database files are copied or otherwise exposed in their raw form, exposure does not happen. Does PostgreSQL Need TDE (Transparent Data Encryption)?

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Database Storage Government Open Source 122

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Microsoft Azure is one of the most popular cloud providers in the world, and a natural fit for database hosting on applications leveraging Microsoft across their infrastructure. MySQL is the number one open source database that’s commonly hosted through Azure instances.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

We are excited to unveil the Beta release of Percona Everest, an innovative open source cloud-native database platform built upon the robust Percona Operators.With Percona Everest, you can enjoy DBaaS provisioning and management features without the […]

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Database Cloud Open Source Innovation 69

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Data powers everything, and unlike coal and coal combustion, data and databases aren’t going away. In this blog, we’ll focus on the elements of database backup and disaster recovery, and we’ll introduce proven solutions for maintaining business continuity, even amid otherwise dire circumstances.

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