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Performance Testing with Open Source Tools – Myths and Reality

Alex Podelko

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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Security by design enhanced by unified observability and security

Dynatrace

At financial services company, Soldo, efficiency and security by design are paramount goals. This is especially true as organizations rely more on diverse and nimble cloud-native and open source technologies. This is especially true as organizations rely more on diverse and nimble cloud-native and open source technologies.

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

BBR: Congestion-Based Congestion Control,” [link] 2016 - [Gregg 16] Brendan Gregg, “Unikernel Profiling: Flame Graphs from dom0,” [link] Jan 2016 - [Gregg 16b] Brendan Gregg, “Linux 4.X

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Let's Encrypt: an automated certificate authority to encrypt the entire web

The Morning Paper

Secondly, Let’s Encrypt managed to find a sustainable funding model for a combination of an open source project and free online service, as compared to the more normal pattern which sadly seems to involve running a small number of beneficent maintainers into the ground. Navigating the SSL marketplace was difficult and confusing.

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MariaDB vs MySQL: Key Differences and Use Cases

Percona

MariaDB is a popular SQL open source relational database management system that originated as a fork of MySQL after MySQL was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008 and later Oracle in 2010. It continues to be developed and maintained by the open source community and remains free to use under the GNU General Public License.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] Nov 2020 - [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] Jul 2020 - [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? How good is a new typeface, and how good is it compared to a similar typeface designed in previous years? How well does a typeface work and perform against another similar typeface?