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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

This is especially true as organizations rely more on diverse and nimble cloud-native and open source technologies. Since 2015, the Soldo business spend management platform has provided companies with a simple and efficient way to better spend and control company money.

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What is Azure Functions?

Dynatrace

As early as 2015, the Canadian Broadcasting corporation used Azure App Services, the managed platform for building web apps, to scale its real-time election-night website to handle requests from millions of users. The platform reserves a base number of virtual machines and automatically adds instances as needed during periods of heavy use.

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Observability platform vs. observability tools

Dynatrace

But by 2015, it was more common to split up monolithic applications into distributed systems. The open-source observability framework, OpenTelemetry , provides a standard for adding observable instrumentation to cloud-native applications. This was sufficient for monolithic applications, which were common at the time.

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

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.,

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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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Moving my US tech job to Australia

Brendan Gregg

Back in 2015 we'd have BPF (iovisor) meetups in Santa Clara and most contributors would be there in person, with some having travelled. Linux has been described as the world's most successful open source project, and it's all engineers working remotely. I know others who have also left the Bay Area or are planning to.

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