All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

They would love to migrate to an open-source style database like MySQL or PostgresSQL if only such a database could meet the enterprise-grade reliability and performance these high-scale applications required. That database engine is now known as Amazon Aurora and launched in 2014 for MySQL and in 2016 for PostgreSQL.

Database 117

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

by Jason Koch , with Martin Spier , Brendan Gregg , Ed Hunter Improving the tools available to our engineers to help them diagnose, triage, and work through software performance challenges in the cloud is a key goal for the cloud performance engineering team at Netflix. Vector is open source and in use by multiple companies.

Performance 211

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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?

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

The 2014 launch of AWS Lambda marked a milestone in how organizations use cloud services to deliver their applications more efficiently, by running functions at the edge of the cloud without the cost and operational overhead of on-premises servers. Dynatrace news. What is AWS Lambda? The Amazon Web Services ecosystem.

Lambda 184

Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 184

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2021

According to the 2020 Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) survey , 92 percent of organizations are using containers in production, and 83 percent of these use Kubernetes as their preferred container management solution. This simplifies orchestration in cloud-native environments. Dynatrace news. What is Kubernetes?

Virtualization 133

Virtualization DevOps Infrastructure Cloud 133

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes : . Cloud: A utomation of infrastructure and services on-demand, pay as you use model . Cloud-native? refers to cloud-based, containerized, distributed systems, made up of cooperating microservices, dynamically managed by automated infrastructure as code. . ?

Google 132

Google Ecommerce DevOps Cloud 132

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes : . Cloud: A utomation of infrastructure and services on-demand, pay as you use model . Cloud-native? refers to cloud-based, containerized, distributed systems, made up of cooperating microservices, dynamically managed by automated infrastructure as code. . ?

Google 130

Google Ecommerce DevOps Cloud 130

Dynatrace

MAY 7, 2019

With the Red Hat Summit 2019 just around the corner, this month’s featured partner is the world’s leading provider of open source software solutions: Red Hat. So, he started selling open source Linux and Unix operating systems with his famous sales pitch “You wouldn’t buy a car with the hood welded shut”.

Open Source 113

Open Source DevOps Innovation Infrastructure 113

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] Apr 2018 - [Cutress 19] Dr. Ian Cutress, “Insights into DDR5 Sub-timings and Latencies,” [link] Oct 2020 - [Ford 20] A. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

This is currently part of our FlameCommander UI, which also runs flame graphs across the cloud. We'll likely open source the new one at some point and have a post about it on the Netflix tech blog. ## Case study: Facebook Facebook are advanced users of BPF, but deep details of how they run the tools fleet-wide aren't fully public.

Latency 145

Latency Cache Energy Systems 145

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] , Apr 2018 [Cutress 19] Dr. Ian Cutress, “Insights into DDR5 Sub-timings and Latencies,” [link] , Oct 2020 [Ford 20] A. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

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?

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Testsigma

JANUARY 7, 2022

2014 saw the trend of mobile app testing as they were becoming a multi-billion dollar business all over the world. Testsigma, a completely cloud-based test automation tool uses AI technology in software testing to save time, costs and smoothen out the learning curve of the testers. Tweet link.

Artificial Intelligence 89

Artificial Intelligence IoT Software Software 89

O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

But in 2013 and 2014, it remained stuck at 83% , and while in the ten years since, it has reached 95% , it had become clear that the easy money that came from acquiring more users was ending. Some of those innovations, like Amazon’s cloud computing business, represented enormous new markets and a new business model.

Social Media 106

Social Media Google Internet Internet 106

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Despite being largely open source, browsers and their engines are not loss leaders. The New York Times reported in late 2020 that Google now pays Apple between $8-12 billion per year , up from $1 billion in 2014. In 2014, Apple would have enjoyed a profit margin of 50% if it had spent half a billion on browser engineering.

Engineering 110

Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

If you're using an open source monitoring platform, first check if it already has a BPF agent. This is currently part of our FlameCommander UI, which also runs flame graphs across the cloud. As an extreme example, I wrote cachestat(8) while on vacation in 2014 for use on the Netflix cloud, which was a mix of Linux 3.2

Open Source 40

Open Source Latency Cache Energy 40

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Although some vendors have added support for APIs and cloud services most have not even bothered to adapt with changing technology landscape. In addition, traditional CMS solutions lack integration with modern software stack, cloud services, and software delivery pipelines. There is hardly any innovation from traditional CMS vendors.

Systems 63

Systems Cache Website Network 63

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Although a beta version was released in 2014, the first stable release of Kubernetes was just made available in September 2018. That’s why Google set out to develop an open source system that would simplify the “deployment, scaling and operations” of containerized applications across multiple hosts.

Virtualization 47

Virtualization Open Source Network Architecture 47

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The project is available in twenty languages, and encourages all kinds of contributions to open-source projects — including non-pull-request contributions. Lean UXMas has been publishing each advent since 2014 and is a collection of the most popular articles from this year’s Agile and Lean UX latest news. 24 Pull Requests.

Design 108

Design Development Programming Website 108