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Behind the Scenes: Building a Robust Ads Event Processing Pipeline

The Netflix TechBlog

Kinesh Satiya Introduction In a digital advertising platform, a robust feedback system is essential for the lifecycle and success of an ad campaign. This system comprises of diverse sub-systems designed to monitor, measure, and optimize ad campaigns. At Netflix, we embarked on a journey to build a robust event processing platform that not only meets the current demands but also scales for future needs.

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Threat detection in cloud native environments: Detecting suspicious Kubernetes service account behavior

Dynatrace

With the current threat landscape, attackers are often targeting cloud-native environments. The inherent nature of these environments means they are often spun up very quickly and are distributed, leading to monitoring and security challenges. Attackers leverage this fact, which is clearly demonstrated by the increasingly short time to exploit. On top of that, while the increasing use of AI in security can certainly benefit organizations, AI can also lead to an explosion of security findings tha

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Kubernetes security essentials: Understanding Kubernetes security misconfigurations

Dynatrace

Picture this: A notification appears on a monitoring dashboard indicating the production Kubernetes cluster has been compromised. An attacker has gained access through security misconfigurations in an API server, escalated privileges, and deployed cryptocurrency mining pods that consume massive resources. The DevOps team spends the day containing the damage and now faces tough questions from leadership about how this happened.

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Docker Base Images Demystified: A Practical Guide

DZone

What Is a Docker Base Image? A Docker base image is the foundational layer from which containers are built. Think of it as the starting point for your applications environment. Its a minimal, preconfigured template containing an operating system, runtime tools, libraries, and dependencies. When you write a Dockerfile, the FROM command defines this base image, setting the stage for all subsequent layers.

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Best Free and Paid MySQL Monitoring Tools [2025]

Scalegrid

Monitoring MySQL databases is essential for maintaining performance, detecting issues early, and ensuring efficient resource use by tracking critical metrics. With MySQL supporting various applications, its important to have the right tools in place to monitor database health and performance. Proper monitoring helps finding slow queries, resource limitations, and security issues before they affect operations.

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AI and Programming: The Beginning of a New Era

O'Reilly

Thanks so much for joining us today. We have over 20,000 people signed up for this event, both subscribers on the oreilly.com platform and those who arent yet subscribers. I think youre here because you all sense what I do: we’re witnessing not the end of programming, but its remarkable expansion. This is the most exciting moment in software development that I’ve seen during my more than 40 years in this industry.

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Measuring Dialogue Intelligibility for Netflix Content

The Netflix TechBlog

Enhancing Member Experience Through Strategic Collaboration Ozzie Sutherland , Iroro Orife , Chih-Wei Wu , BhanuSrikanth At Netflix, delivering the best possible experience for our members is at the heart of everything we do, and we know we cant do it alone. Thats why we work closely with a diverse ecosystem of technology partners, combining their deep expertise with our creative and operational insights.

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What Is Database Normalization

Scalegrid

Database normalization is the process of structuring data in a relational database to eliminate redundancy and enforce data consistency. This approach helps reduce storage waste and supports data integrity. This article explains how normalization works, its importance , and where it fits into database design. Key Takeaways Database normalization reduces data duplication, preserves integrity, and improves performance by organizing data into efficient structures.

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Vibe Coding, Vibe Checking, and Vibe Blogging

O'Reilly

For the past decade and a half, I’ve been exploring the intersection of technology, education, and design as a professor of cognitive science and design at UC San Diego. Some of you might have read my recent piece for O’Reilly Radar where I detailed my journey adding AI chat capabilities to Python Tutor , the free visualization tool that’s helped millions of programming students understand how code executes.

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Doom GPU Flame Graphs

Brendan Gregg

AI Flame Graphs are now open source and include Intel Battlemage GPU support, which means it can also generate full-stack GPU flame graphs for providing new insights into gaming performance, especially when coupled with FlameScope (an older open source project of mine). Here's an example of GZDoom, and I'll start with flame scopes for both CPU and GPU utilization, with details annotated: (Here are the raw CPU and GPU versions.

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Kubernetes security essentials: Kubernetes misconfiguration attack paths and mitigation strategies

Dynatrace

In Part 1 of our Kubernetes security essentials series, we examined the critical components of Kubernetes and the common security misconfigurations that make each one vulnerable. Now, lets explore how these vulnerabilities translate into real-world attack paths and what you can do to protect your clusters. The threat landscape: Mapping Kubernetes misconfigurations to attack tactics The incredible flexibility of Kubernetes creates an equally expansive attack surface.

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Rust and WebAssembly: Unlocking High-Performance Web Apps

DZone

Information technology continues to transform at an accelerated pace because modern businesses seek faster, high-performance applications. JavaScript-based development solutions from the past tend to fall behind when performing complex computations, which produce performance issues along with ineffective execution. Fast, efficient web applications emerge through a synergistic relationship between Rust and Wasm technology.

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Does FCV Have Any Impact on MongoDB Performance?

Percona

It is generally known and established that different database versions provide different sets of features and performance rates. Along with the binary versions, MongoDB has a property called Feature Compatibility Value, which allows administrators to run a binary version without enabling any features that are incompatible with the previous one.

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MCP: What It Is and Why It Matters—Part 1

O'Reilly

1. ELI5: Understanding MCP Imagine you have a single universal plug that fits all your devicesthat’s essentially what the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is for AI. MCP is an open standard (think USB-C for AI integrations ) that allows AI models to connect to many different apps and data sources in a consistent way. In simple terms, MCP lets an AI assistant talk to various software tools using a common language, instead of each tool requiring a different adapter or custom code.

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Fixrleak: Fixing Java Resource Leaks with GenAI

Uber Engineering

Goodbye resource leaks! Learn how the FixrLeak framework leverages GenAI and AST-level analysis to automatically detect and fix resource leaks in large-scale Java applications at Uber.

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What is Kubernetes security posture management? Driving business security with KSPM

Dynatrace

Kubernetes is the go-to container orchestration platform for simultaneously delivering application scalability and agility. But its distributed architecture also introduces significant security challenges. In 2024, misconfigured Kubernetes clusters contributed to 45% of security incidents. Security teams struggle with complex Kubernetes attack surfaces and meeting compliance requirements with traditional monitoring tools, which fail to provide the visibility and agility needed to protect workloa

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Hybrid Cloud vs Multi-Cloud: Choosing the Right Strategy for AI Scalability and Security

DZone

As enterprises accelerate AI adoption, their cloud strategy determines whether they can efficiently train models, scale workloads, and ensure compliance. Given the computational intensity and data sensitivity of AI, businesses must choose between hybrid cloud and multi-cloud architectures. While both hybrid cloud and multi-cloud approaches offer distinct advantages, understanding their nuances is crucial for organizations aiming to build robust AI infrastructure.

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Benchmarking PostgreSQL: The Hidden Cost of Over-Indexing

Percona

Indexing is one of PostgreSQLs most effective tools for improving query performance, but like any powerful tool, it can cause real problems when overused.

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AWS Promotes Responsible AI in the Well-Architected Generative AI Lens

InfoQ

AWS announced the availability of the new Well-Architected Generative AI Lens, focused on providing best practices for designing and operating generative AI workloads. The lens is aimed at organizations delivering robust and cost-effective generative AI solutions on AWS. The document offers cloud-agnostic best practices, implementation guidance and links to additional resources.

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Context Serialization

O'Reilly

In a recent edition of The Sequence Engineering newsletter, Why Did MCP Win? , the authors point to context serialization and exchange as a reasonperhaps the most important reasonwhy everyones talking about the Model Context Protocol. I was puzzled by thisIve read a lot of technical and semitechnical posts about MCP and havent seen context serialization mentioned.

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Distributed tracing best practices for the software development lifecycle

Dynatrace

For developers, the ultimate win is creating impactful features, shipping them quickly, and confidently implementing fixes when needed. Distributed tracing plays a critical role in achieving these goals. As a core component of observability, it provides the insights developers need to write better code, collaborate efficiently, and increase application reliability.

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Why High-Performance AI/ML Is Essential in Modern Cybersecurity

DZone

Today, organizations thrive in a complex and evolving threat landscape, and cybersecurity has become pivotal for digital resilience. Various sophisticated attacks, such as supply chain breaches, ransomware, phishing via malicious email campaigns, and vulnerabilities in cloud and Internet of Things (IOT) environments, need advanced, performance-sensitive solutions that can detect in real time and also respond to and mitigate these attacks.

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Behind the Scenes: How Percona Support Diagnosed a MongoDB FTDC Freeze

Percona

One of our customers recently reported that MongoDBs diagnostic metricscollected via FTDC (Full-Time Diagnostic Data Capture)had stopped updating. As a result, no metrics were being collected, either through diagnostic data files or the getDiagnosticDatacommand. Key metrics such as uptime were no longer progressing.

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Easy Automated Docker Volume Backups That Are Database Friendly

The Polyglot Developer

I recently picked up a Beelink EQR6 Mini PC to reduce some of the Docker stress on my aging Synology NAS. Since my Synology used the Btrfs filesystem, I never had to worry about file locks and corruption during a backup because that particular file system used copy-on-write (CoW). However, since I decided to use Ubuntu Server on my Mini PC and neglected choosing which filesystem I wanted to use, I ended up with ext4.

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Migrating Uber’s Compute Platform to Kubernetes: A Technical Journey

Uber Engineering

Migrating tech stacks at Ubers scale isnt easy. Learn how we migrated our stateless container orchestration platform to Kubernetes and operate it at a scale of 3 million cores with 1.5 million pod launches daily.

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Dynatrace launchpads: Focus on what matters with customizable home pages

Dynatrace

A customizable, responsive UI/UX solution is integral to developing modern software. Because Dynatrace is used by different teams and departments with different requirements, its important that launch experiences (aka launchpads ) offer flexibility to accommodate each user’s use casesthere is no one-size-fits-all solution. One team might need a launchpad to onboard a new hire and display important internal onboarding resources, link to the teams central notes, CI/CD integrations, and essen

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SQL Server Index Optimization Strategies: Best Practices with Ola Hallengren’s Scripts

DZone

Index maintenance is a critical component of database administration as it helps ensure the ongoing efficiency and performance of a Structured Query Language (SQL) Server environment. Over time, as data is added, updated, and deleted, index fragmentation can occur, where the logical and physical ordering of index pages becomes misaligned. This fragmentation can lead to increased disk I/O, decreased query performance, and overall system inefficiency.

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Deploying External Read Replica in MySQL InnoDB Cluster

Percona

Innodb Cluster or ClusterSet topologies already have secondary instancesthat can act as a failover for primary or also offload read requests. However, with MySQL 8.4, we now have the feasibility of adding a separate async replica to the cluster for serving various special/ad-hoc queries or some reporting purposes.

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Redis AI Use Cases for Efficient Data Processing

Scalegrid

Curious about how Redis AI can be applied? This article explores Redis AI use cases and its impact on them, including enhancing search capabilities, improving chatbot performance, and optimizing machine learning workflows. Key Takeaways Enhanced Search Capabilities: Redis AI improves search operations by leveraging vector similarity, resulting in faster and more accurate search results.

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Getting Started With Queryable Encryption in the MongoDB C# Driver

The Polyglot Developer

With the release of MongoDB 7.0 in August 2023, we introduced a feature called Queryable Encryption , the first of its kind. With queryable encryption, your data is encrypted, even at rest, with the server unable to read it either but still able to execute queries against it. You can specify what fields to encrypt so you can encrypt as much or as little of your document as you need.

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What’s new in Dynatrace SaaS version 1.313

Dynatrace

We have released Dynatrace version 1.313. To learn what’s new, have a look at the release notes. The post What’s new in Dynatrace SaaS version 1.313 appeared first on Dynatrace news.

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Apache Doris vs Elasticsearch: An In-Depth Comparative Analysis

DZone

In the field of big data analytics, Apache Doris and Elasticsearch (ES) are frequently utilized for real-time analytics and retrieval tasks. However, their design philosophies and technical focuses differ significantly. This article offers a detailed comparison across six dimensions: core architecture, query language, real-time capabilities, application scenarios, performance, and enterprise practices. 1.

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pgvector: The Critical PostgreSQL Component for Your Enterprise AI Strategy

Percona

You’re likely racing to enhance your applications with more intelligent, data-driven capabilities, whether through AI-powered models (which have moved into “must implement now!” territory), advanced search functions, real-time fraud detection, or geospatial analysis. As these demands grow, you face a significant challenge: efficiently storing, managing, and querying high-dimensional vector data within your existing database infrastructure.

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ScaleGrid for MongoDB® vs. MongoDB® Atlas

Scalegrid

MongoDB Atlas and ScaleGrid for MongoDB offer two distinct approaches to running MongoDB in the cloud. Both support high-performance, data-driven applications but which one fits your use case best? While MongoDB Atlas delivers a fully managed experience tied closely to MongoDB’s ecosystem, ScaleGrid mostly matches Atlas capabilities while also being attractive for organizations with complex deployment needs, strict compliance requirements, or those optimizing for performance and budget.

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Living in the future: Using C++26 at work

Sutter's Mill

I recently contributed a guest post on my employer’s blog about the importance of the almost-feature-complete C++26 draft standard: “Sea change in C++: Why opportunities abound” It starts by summarizing a talk I gave recently, about how C++26 is poised to do what C++11 did over a decade ago: usher in a new era of C++ code style. Just as we can now glance at 10 or 20 lines and quickly recognize modern C++ as C++11-era code, soon well be able to do the same with code that uses st

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Understand the latest AI revolution: Agentic AI, Model Context Protocol (MCP) and all that jazz

Dynatrace

By now, everyone is familiar with generative AI fueled by large language models (LLMs) and generative pre-trained transformers (GPTs). The next level of innovation is agentic AI and the AI agents that drive it. These systems are revolutionizing how enterprises automate tasks and orchestrate complex workflows. Powered by LLMs, vector databases, retrieval augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, and additional tools, these AI agents are expanding extensively, giving rise to multi-agent systems, cross

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How to Restore a Transaction Log Backup in SQL Server

DZone

Restoring a transaction log backup in SQL Server is a crucial step in database recovery. It allows us to roll forward changes to a specific point in time. Whether you're recovering from failure, migrating data, or testing scenarios, the transaction log restore process ensures data consistency by applying committed transactions up to a specific point in time.

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