Alex Podelko

JUNE 12, 2019

released in March 2018 – so it doesn’t look like a lot is going on there. Open Source. But when I check it in 2018, JMeter appears to be well ahead of LoadRunner (now MicroFocus) in both the number of documents and the number of jobs mentioning it, apparently becoming the most popular load testing tool.

Testing 243

Testing Open Source Testing Tools Performance Testing 243

High Scalability

DECEMBER 21, 2018

odrotbohm : I’ve seen microservice based systems more deranged after 2 years than any 1,5 decades old monolith could ever have been. kellabyte : “Open source” infrastructure companies are a giant s**t show right now. Me : Nothing special. 1) Enterprise data centres will continue to close. If you plan for it.

Internet 137

Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 137

High Scalability

MARCH 22, 2019

Hell, many of these providers are just providing open source API compatibility with custom-built backends! What happens when no new open source comes out of the smaller companies, and the big-3 decide they don't really need or want to play nice anymore? It has 41 mostly 5 star reviews. We achieve 5.5

Internet 134

Internet Internet Scalability Wireless 134

Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

By 2024, over 50% of all IT spending will be directly put towards digital transformation and innovation (up from 31% in 2018). PayPal, a popular online payment systems organization, implemented a full performance as a self-service model for developers to get their code performance tests. Industry apps explosion.

Performance 234

Performance Education Innovation Software Architecture 234

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book. TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses,” [link] Mar 2020 - [Gregg 20] Brendan Gregg, “Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, Second Edition,” Addison-Wesley, 2020 - [Hruska 20] Joel Hruska, “Intel Demos PCIe 5.0

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Created by Alastair Robertson , bpftrace is an open source high-level tracing front-end that lets you analyze systems in custom ways. eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) is in the Linux kernel and is the new hotness in systems engineering. Here's key differences as of August 2018: Type DTrace bpftrace.

C++ 110

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 110

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The specification of AV1 was published in 2018. The Android launch leveraged the open-source software decoder dav1d built by the VideoLAN, VLC, and FFmpeg communities and sponsored by AOMedia. The Encoding Technologies team currently has a number of openings, and we can’t wait to have more stunning engineers joining us.

Media 246

Media Open Source Efficiency Software Engineering 246

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Let’s look at some of the most popular Percona Database Performance Blog posts in 2018. With the Percona Database Performance Blog, Percona staff and leadership work hard to provide the open source community with insights, technical support, predictions and metrics around multiple open source database software technologies.

Database 40

Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

Loosely defined, Observability boils down to inferring the internal health and state of a system by looking at the external data it produces, which most commonly are logs, metrics, and traces. However, in the open-source specification world, competition can lead to poor adoption, contribution, and support.

Open Source 173

Open Source Metrics Google Java 173

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

It’s awesome for discovering how grid systems, CSS animation, Big Data, etc all play roles in real-world web design. It also contains a lot of good articles about WordPress, development on Unix-like systems and back-end languages like Python. Be sure to check it out if your dev process needs a creative kick in the pants.

Development 75

Development Website Design Code 75

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

Loosely defined, Observability boils down to inferring the internal health and state of a system by looking at the external data it produces, which most commonly are logs, metrics, and traces. However, in the open-source specification world, competition can lead to poor adoption, contribution, and support.

Open Source 130

Open Source Metrics Google Java 130

Dynatrace

JULY 30, 2021

Back in 2018, we taught those DevOps concepts and implemented unbreakable pipelines for cloud-native delivery projects. For easy access to all configuration files relevant for Dynatrace Cloud Automation, we start by setting an upstream git to our own GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, or any other git compliant version control system.

Cloud 211

Cloud DevOps Azure Virtualization 211

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book. TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses,” [link] Mar 2020 - [Gregg 20] Brendan Gregg, “Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, Second Edition,” Addison-Wesley, 2020 - [Hruska 20] Joel Hruska, “Intel Demos PCIe 5.0

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Created by Alastair Robertson , bpftrace is an open source high-level tracing front-end that lets you analyze systems in custom ways. eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) is in the Linux kernel and is the new hotness in systems engineering. Here's key differences as of August 2018: Type DTrace bpftrace.

C++ 40

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 40

Alex Podelko

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

But now, in 2018, JMeter appears to be well ahead of LoadRunner (now MicroFocus) in both the number of documents and the number of jobs mentioning it, apparently becoming the most popular load testing tool. So you need to monitor the production system to verify that your test workload is close enough.

DevOps 113

DevOps Testing Testing Tools Performance Testing 113

O'Reilly Software

AUGUST 29, 2018

Large groups of people are left without water, electricity, or other basic systems that sustain life. The Call for Code Challenge in 2018 is a competition that rewards participants who come up with the applications that make the greatest impact. Register for the 2018 developer challenge at the Call for Code site.

Code 80

Code Artificial Intelligence Development Logistics 80

Percona

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

2018-09-03.09 > mysql-slowquery.log.2018-09-03.09 2018-09-03.09 2018-09-03.09 system time, 43.80M rss, 141.48M vsz # Current date: Tue Sep 4 15:54:21 2018 # Hostname: aahmed-GL503VD # Files: mysql-slowquery.log.2018-09-03.09 2018-09-03.09 Run pt-query-digest on the log file. . $ user time, 2.5s

C++ 42

C++ AWS Open Source Testing 42

Tech News Gather

MAY 3, 2023

Flutter is a free and open-source SDK that simplifies creating mobile apps for several platforms. A single set of codes can serve both systems. Over 2 million developers have used the Flutter toolkit since its introduction in 2018, as Tim Sneath, Flutter’s product manager, reported last year.

Mobile 40

Mobile Development Open Source Energy 40

All Things Distributed

APRIL 11, 2018

You should be able to write your code and have it run, without having to worry about configuring complex management tools, open source or not. Whether you use Kubernetes, Mesos, Rancher, Nomad, ECS or any other system no longer matters anymore because with Fargate, there is nothing to orchestrate.

Cloud 148

Cloud AWS Innovation Traffic 148

Percona

JULY 2, 2023

This blog was originally written in September 2018 and was updated in June 2023. In setting up our demonstration system, we use pg_basebackup and continuous archiving. Be sure to check out our webinar, Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL Built on Open Source Tools , to see this in practice.

Strategy 52

Strategy Database Storage Open Source 52

High Scalability

AUGUST 9, 2018

taotetek : Distributed systems tip: Write your system without any queues first. If you end up needing queues, the retry and reliability code you wrote in order to function without queues will still make your system more reliable. Using or developing more open source software is not going to improve anyone’s lives.

Internet 21

Internet Internet Scalability Open Source 21

Percona

JULY 30, 2018

Please join Percona’s CEO, Peter Zaitsev as he presents Using MySQL for Distributed Database Architectures on Tuesday, July 31st, 2018 at 7:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 10:00 AM EDT (UTC-4). In this presentation, we will look at how we can use MySQL to engineer distributed multi-node systems. Register Now. Register for the webinar.

Architecture 41

Architecture Database Open Source Internet 41

Testsigma

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Having an effective test automation system is an absolute necessity in today’s agile software development environments. Even if you are considering using an open-source tool such as Selenium or Appium, there is a level of investment required in training the testers to use these frameworks. No setup or ramp-up delays!

Testing 85

Testing Mobile Network Analytics 85

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Never inflict a distributed system on yourself unless you have too." seconds with the system. Hey, it's HighScalability time: @danielbryantuk : "A LAMP stack is a good thing. mipsytipsy #CloudNativeLondon. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please support me on Patreon and you'll get 100 free cloud credits in heaven. There more.

Internet 35

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 35

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Another data point from Miller’s presentation: in 2018 57-70% of the average software project comprises open source components, and that fraction is rising fast. “ We largely glue together open source components now (we didn’t do this as much, not even like 3 years ago).”

Open Source 52

Open Source Programming Speed Software 52

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. With the goals of sharing, openness and mentoring, you’re in for some great articles about systems administration topics written by fellow sysadmins.

Design 109

Design Development Programming Website 109

Testsigma

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

As per the DevTestOps Manifesto 2018: “The goal of DevTestOps is not to silo “Test” from Dev and Ops, but simply to raise the visibility of testers and testing as integral parts of the DevOps quality culture”. Watir: It is an open-source tool used for web automation and continuous testing, based on ruby language.

Testing 52

Testing DevOps Open Source Mobile 52

The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

Firecracker is the virtual machine monitor (VMM) that powers AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, and has been used in production at AWS since 2018. We looked at a couple of papers that had pre-prints available last week, today we’ll be looking at one of the most anticipated papers of this year’s crop: Amazon’s Firecracker.

Serverless 101

Serverless Virtualization Lambda AWS 101

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 18, 2019

bpftrace is a new open source tracer for Linux for analyzing production performance problems and troubleshooting software. system(".") 6 * 7 * Copyright 2018 Netflix, Inc. the "License") 9 * 10 * 13-Sep-2018 Brendan Gregg Created this. Builtin variables include: Variable Description. pid process ID.

Latency 68

Latency C++ Cache Programming 68

HammerDB

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

HammerDB is open source and all of the source code is available at the sourceforge Git development site here [link] or the github mirror here [link]. In fact all of this source code is also included in readable form with each and every release. This Git repository is updated with every release. HammerDB CLI v3.1

Architecture 40

Architecture Virtualization Open Source C++ 40

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in August 2018 and was updated in May 2023. It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. Out of the box, the default PostgreSQL configuration is not tuned for any particular workload.

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

They published the original Transformer paper (not quite coincidentally called “Attention is All You Need”) in 2017, and released BERT , an open source implementation, in late 2018, but they never went so far as to build and release anything like OpenAI’s GPT line of services.

Social Media 111

Social Media Google Internet Internet 111

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

These compiled systems for letters and symbols, which are representations of sounds and information, get a lot of use and are a large part of graphic communication. Fast forward to the early 1960s, phototypesetting systems appeared. Instead, we need to address multiple factors within the design system. Large preview ).

Performance 113

Performance Design Best Practices Testing 113

The Symphonia

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Serverless, and related announcements, at re:Invent 2018 The fountains at the Bellagio?—?still artifacts that can be merged into your function’s file system before the function is executed. One of my favorite developments of 2018 in the AWS team has been the growth of their “Serverless Applications” efforts?—?what

Lambda 40

Lambda Serverless AWS Blockchain 40

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 13, 2019

In general, images are either: Dynamic : Dynamic images are uploaded by the audience, having been generated by other events in the system. However, you can take advantage of the artificial intelligence offered by open-source tools or SaaS companies that specialize in image management. Strategy for dynamic images. Art direction.

Media 72

Media Artificial Intelligence Strategy Open Source 72