The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint.

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High Scalability

APRIL 3, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines.

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Scalegrid

JUNE 6, 2019

June 6, 2019 – ScaleGrid , the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) leader in the SQL and NoSQL space, has announced the expansion of their fully managed MySQL Hosting services to support Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. PALO ALTO, Calif.,

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2021

Microsoft’s GitHub is the largest open-source software community in the world with millions of open-source projects. Since becoming General Availability in the fall of 2019 , GitHub Actions has helped teams automate continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) workflows for code builds, tests, and deployments.

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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?

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Alex Podelko

APRIL 18, 2021

MongoDB shared a lot of information on how we do performance testing and even open sourced some parts of it. Blog post from April 30, 2019, Reducing variability in performance tests on EC2: Setup and Key Results , address that specific issue. [Another interesting project in that area is keptn , but that is about it.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Part one also provided an overview of Dynatrace’s Cloud Automation solution, Microsoft’s GitHub Actions , and open-source examples you can use and extend related to deployment and release monitoring. Below is a picture illustrating the use case of using Monaco as part of a code delivery pipeline. Monitoring as Code workflow example.

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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 2, 2019

October 2, 2019 – ScaleGrid, a rapidly growing leader in the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) space, has just launched their new fully managed Hosting on Azure for Redis™ service. PALO ALTO, Calif.,

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

We at Dynatrace understand the importance of contributing our expertise in enterprise-grade intelligent observability to the open source community. I worked on providing code-level insights for Java and.NET services and applications before shifting gears and joining the OpenTelemetry community back in May 2019.

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Scalegrid

JULY 17, 2019

July 17, 2019 – ScaleGrid, a leader in the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) space, has just announced support for PostgreSQL hosting in the cloud. PALO ALTO, Calif., The ScaleGrid platform allows PostgreSQL users to automate their daily operations without having to sacrifice control over their deployments.

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Brendan Gregg

MAY 1, 2022

These were the opening words of my 2019 [AWS re:Invent talk], which I followed by demonstrating rapid on-the-fly dynamic instrumentation of the Intel wireless driver. I'll still be working on eBPF and other open source projects, and I'm glad that Intel's leadership has committed to continue supporting [open source].

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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 27, 2019

The Web Almanac by HTTP Archive is a free, open-source collaborations featuring input from over 80 contributors. The post Year in Web Performance: 2019 appeared first on MachMetrics Speed Blog. It is one of the most complete “state of the web” reports currently available. Let us know where you stand below!

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 24, 2019

January 24, 2019 – ScaleGrid , a rising leader in the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) space, has just announced support for Redis Clusters on their fully managed Redis hosting plans. PALO ALTO, Calif.,

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows. In 2019, Netflix moved thousands of container hosts to bare metal. We share everything attendees need to implement CloudTrail in their own organizations.

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Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

PostgreSQL is open source relational database management software. StackOverflow statistics show that 26% of developers preferred it in 2017, 34% in 2019, and 40% in 2021. It has evolved steadily, however, during 25 years as an open source project. What is PostgreSQL used for? Is PostgreSQL enterprise-ready?

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Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database 80

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Watch “ The ultimate guide to complicated systems “ 5 things Go taught me about open source? Watch “ 5 things Go taught me about open source? Dave Cheney talks about the unexpected things he learned while trying to convince programmers to try Go.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

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

Performance 140

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Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

The OpenCensus project was made open source by Google back in 2018, based on Google’s Census library that was used internally for gathering traces and metrics from their distributed systems. However, in the open-source specification world, competition can lead to poor adoption, contribution, and support.

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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”.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Troubleshooting a session in Edgar When we started building Edgar four years ago, there were very few open-source distributed tracing systems that satisfied our needs. Our tactical approach was to use Netflix-specific libraries for collecting traces from Java-based streaming services until open source tracer libraries matured.

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Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

From May 17 to May 18, 2021, the Open-Source Engineering team at Dynatrace attended the virtual observability conference, o11yfest. Dynatrace news. Customers often use more than one vendor, and they want to make sure that there is not a lot of friction in terms of being able to push telemetry.

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Percona Community

JUNE 4, 2020

GSoC is a great program to involve young student developers in open source projects. We participated in the program in 2019 for the first time and we were really happy and satisfied with the results.

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Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

The OpenCensus project was made open source by Google back in 2018, based on Google’s Census library that was used internally for gathering traces and metrics from their distributed systems. However, in the open-source specification world, competition can lead to poor adoption, contribution, and support.

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Open Source Metrics Google Java 130

Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

PostgreSQL graphical user interface (GUI) tools help these open source database users to manage, manipulate, and visualize their data. It supports all PostgreSQL operations and features while being free and open-source. pgAdmin Cost: Free (open source). 2019 Comparison Click To Tweet. Conclusion.

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Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

The use of open source databases has increased steadily in recent years. Past trepidation — about perceived vulnerabilities and performance issues — has faded as decision makers realize what an “open source database” really is and what it offers. What is an open source database?

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Open Source Database Storage Scalability 77

Testsigma

APRIL 23, 2021

Simform (as of 2019) stated that an average user has at least 40 apps installed on their phones while millennials have around 67 apps. Appium: Appium is one of the most preferred testing tools, especially by the open-source community. Being open-source, it also has a rich community! .

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Testing Tools Mobile Testing Open Source 86

Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

From May 17 to May 18, 2021, the Open-Source Engineering team at Dynatrace attended the virtual observability conference, o11yfest. Dynatrace news. Customers often use more than one vendor, and they want to make sure that there is not a lot of friction in terms of being able to push telemetry.

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AWS Strategy Storage Metrics 147

HammerDB

MAY 24, 2019

The TPC Council recently announced that the TPC is now hosting the HammerDB open source projects GitHub repository. The TPC is now hosting the HammerDB open source project’s Github repository. — tpcbenchmarks (@tpcbenchmarks) May 22, 2019. Take a look at [link].

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Brendan Gregg

MAY 1, 2022

These were the opening words of my 2019 AWS re:Invent talk , which I followed by demonstrating rapid on-the-fly dynamic instrumentation of the Intel wireless driver. I'll still be working on eBPF and other open source projects, and I'm glad that Intel's leadership has committed to continue supporting open source.

Wireless 52

Wireless Hardware Open Source Cloud 52

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Back in October of 2019, “Perl 6” was renamed to “Raku”. The project is available in twenty languages, and encourages all kinds of contributions to open-source projects — including non-pull-request contributions. 24 Accessibility (2019). It’s A Shape Christmas (2019). 24 Ways (2019). 24 Pull Requests.

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Particular Software

JANUARY 27, 2020

Microsoft Message Queuing, better known by its nickname MSMQ, passed away peacefully in its hometown of Redmond, Washington on October 14, 2019, at the age of 22. Since it exists in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019, MSMQ will continue to live on until at least 2029—and much longer assuming it isn't removed from future versions of Windows.

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Transportation Azure Open Source Systems 98

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Make sure your system can handle next-generation DRAM,” [link] Nov 2011 - [Hruska 12] Joel Hruska, “The future of CPU scaling: Exploring options on the cutting edge,” [link] Feb 2012 - [Gregg 13] Brendan Gregg, “Blazing Performance with Flame Graphs,” [link] 2013 - [Shimpi 13] Anand Lal Shimpi, “Seagate to Ship 5TB HDD in 2014 using Shingled Magnetic (..)

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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 2, 2019

October 2, 2019 – ScaleGrid, a rapidly growing leader in the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) space, has just launched their new fully managed Redis on Azure service. PALO ALTO, Calif., The demand for Redis is skyrocketing across dozens of use cases, particularly for cache, queues, geospatial data, and high speed transactions.

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Percona Community

MAY 17, 2019

At Percona Live 2019, we are introducing a project we open sourced to anonymize our sensitive production data for use in rapid QA and testing of our software.

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Open Source Testing Technology Technology 40

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

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

Performance 52

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ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Krste Asanovic from UC Berkeley kicked off the main program sharing his experience on “ Rejuvenating Computer Architecture Research with Open-Source Hardware ”. Editor’s note: Sophia was one of the recipients of the Best Paper Award at MICRO 2019. This year’s MICRO had three inspiring keynote talks.

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Hardware Architecture Programming Innovation 18

High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2019

Consume Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 (35 nearly 5 star reviews). nm : future smallest grains on a magnetic disk; 11,000 : free books from 1923; Quotable Quotes: @mekkaokereke : He joined SpaceX as a "founding employee."

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