The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Details pertaining to HDR-VMAF exceed the scope of this article and will be covered in a future blog post; for now, suffice it to say that the first version of HDR-VMAF landed internally in 2021 and we have been improving the metric ever since. Yes, we are committed to supporting the open-source community.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The vulnerability, published as CVE-2021-44228 , enables a remote attacker to take control of a device on the internet, if the device is running certain versions of Log4j 2. Apache issued a patch for CVE-2021-44228, version 2.15, on December 6. When was the vulnerability in the Log4j 2 library discovered? The version 2.16.0

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

This is especially true as organizations rely more on diverse and nimble cloud-native and open source technologies. Since the beginning, we created centralized monitoring and leveraged open source products, like Nagios, to create custom controls, and Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring.”

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Dynatrace

JUNE 13, 2022

They can develop software applications rapidly and gain access to extensible cloud resources without having to sink costs into IT plumbing or managing this infrastructure themselves. Open source code, for example, has generated new threat vectors for attackers to exploit. Open source software security.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Consider the Log4Shell vulnerability , which emerged in December 2021 and is estimated to have affected hundreds of millions of systems worldwide. The vulnerability is located in Log4j 2, an open-source Apache Java software used to run logging services in a host of front-end and backend applications.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 13, 2022

“The Dynatrace platform’s extensive observability spans applications, infrastructure, user experience, application security, and the latest open source standards, including OpenTelemetry. Gartner, Gartner® Peer Insights™ ‘Voice of the Customer’: Application Performance Monitoring, By Peer Contributors, September 9, 2021.

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Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

If you’re new to Dynatrace this should feel like a breath of fresh air compared to existing commercial and open-source solutions. Only Dynatrace provides this level of of infrastructure and application observability in one comprehensive solution. Activating end-to-end Kubernetes observability at scale has never been easier.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 2, 2022

According to some data, a surge in verified zero-day exploits in 2021 alone accounted for 40% of zero-day attacks undertaken in the past decade. Cyberattacks such as the Log4Shell vulnerability , which emerged in late 2021, demonstrated the importance of having a runtime application vulnerability strategy. – blog.

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Dynatrace

MAY 12, 2021

Kubernetes (K8s) is the platform of choice for many organizations, providing a portable, extensible, open-source solution designed to streamline containerized workload oversight. With containers now the common framework for deploying microservices-based applications at scale, the need for robust management tools is also on the rise.

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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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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Operations teams can monitor user experience in cloud infrastructure and automatically provision resources to optimize digital customer experience. In fact, Gartner estimates that, by 2025, more than 95% of new digital workloads will be deployed on cloud-native platforms—up from 30% in 2021.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 3, 2022

Although IT teams are thorough in checking their code for any errors, an attacker can always discover a loophole to exploit and damage applications, infrastructure, and critical data. A zero-day vulnerability can become endemic when it’s present in a system for an extended amount of time and is more complex to protect against.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure released Scope 3 data in 2021. For re:Invent 2021 my team (but mostly Elise Greve) persuaded the re:Invent organizers to include Sustainability as a track code, and that was repeated for 2022 and now for 2023. This session revisits the pillar and its best practices.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 18, 2022

Security vulnerabilities are weaknesses in applications, operating systems, networks, and other IT services and infrastructure that would allow an attacker to compromise a system, steal data, or otherwise disrupt IT operations. What is a security vulnerability? Vulnerability scanning tools can help in both of these cases.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Another source reported a 43% overall increase in Prometheus adoption for the last six months of 2021. As the two first graduates of the open source project incubator, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), Kubernetes and Prometheus are usually deployed together. What is Prometheus?

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Percona

APRIL 28, 2023

We are a company of open source proponents. We’re also dedicated and active participants in the global open source community. Both open source and proprietary options have advantages. With open source database software , anyone in the general public can access the source code, read it, and modify it.

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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 76

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

2021-10-19T14:00:00+00:00. 2021-10-19T20:09:25+00:00. You’ve probably heard about Serverless Functions, but if you haven’t, Serverless Functions provide functionality typically associated with server-side technologies that can be implemented alongside front-end code without getting caught up in server-side infrastructures.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

2021-11-03T11:30:00+00:00. 2021-11-03T15:30:38+00:00. According to the docs on GitHub: “Serverless UI is simply a free, open-source command-line utility for quickly building and deploying serverless applications on the AWS platform.”. This is a plus for the backend and infrastructure setup. Ikeh Akinyemi.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

2021-06-29T11:00:00+00:00. 2021-07-13T02:07:04+00:00. Netlify’s new deployment infrastructure allows developers to create logic to determine what pieces of their app will build on deployment and what pieces will be deferred (and how they will be deferred). Breaking Down Bulky Builds With Netlify And Next.js. Átila Fassina.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

According to GitLab’s 2021 Global DevSecOps Survey , 36% of respondents develop software using DevSecOps, compared with only 27% in 2020. Increased adoption of Infrastructure as code (IaC). IaC, or software intelligence as code , codifies and manages IT infrastructure in software, rather than in hardware. and 2.14.1.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in August of 2021 and updated in November of 2023. Following the series of blogs written with the intention to describe basic operations matching Docker and open source databases, in this article, I will demonstrate how to proceed with installing MongoDB with Docker.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Application developers commonly leverage open-source software when building containerized applications. In fact, the market research firm Forrester says that the average container image is comprised of 70% open-source software.[1] 1] And unfortunately, open-source software is often fraught with security vulnerabilities.

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Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

DevOps enables developers to rapidly and frequently release new features and services by using continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) , suites of collaboration tools, and version control practices, most often with the open source Git software at its core. It is scalable and reduces time needed to set up infrastructure.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Organizations can also optimize their infrastructure usage, achieving a better return on their technology spend. With less time spent in the weeds hunting for root causes of application and infrastructure performance issues, DevOps teams can enjoy increased productivity, and the organization can reduce its operational costs.

Innovation 197

Innovation Open Source Monitoring Infrastructure 197

Dynatrace

JANUARY 5, 2022

In white-box testing, we combine open-source load testing tools such as JMeter with Dynatrace’s observability and analytics capabilities. This allows us to provide our services to customers with a focus on these three key pillars: Scalability : Our solution uses scalable cloud infrastructure. zone } } } }.

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Testing Open Source Metrics Infrastructure 210

Dynatrace

MAY 18, 2021

At Perform 2021 , Inna Tabak, ITSM Technology Lead at Northbridge Financial Corporation, joined J-P Contreras, Practice Manager of Innovation Services at Dynatrace, to talk about Northbridge Financial Corporation’s journey to NoOps. One company, however, has been making that dream a reality. What is NoOps?

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DevOps Open Source Infrastructure Processing 136

Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2021

As a strong supporter of open source and open standards, I’m aware that the wide availability of standards, open-source tools, and some newly coined terms are causing a lot of confusion. I also serve as co-chair of the W3C Distributed Tracing working group , which works on standards like W3C Trace Context.

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Open Source Monitoring Google Systems 195

Dynatrace

JANUARY 19, 2022

As a result, responsible teams across the organization can develop and operate secure, vulnerability-free software and detect security exposure such as Log4Shell (a vulnerability in the Log4j Apache library detected in late 2021) in production in real-time. Vulnerability assessment: Protecting applications and infrastructure – Blog.

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Artificial Intelligence DevOps Performance Games 173

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

2021-11-22T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-11-22T11:06:56+00:00. Implementing this change enabled us to take major steps such as updating our infrastructure along with completely rewriting our core functionality from the ground up. Upgrading Our Services And Infrastructure. Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study).

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Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. Therefore, DBAs must take a piecemeal approach to achieve HA with PostgreSQL, bringing together open source extensions and tools from multiple sources. there cannot be high availability.

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Enprowess

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

React Native is a popular open-source Facebook-led native UI development framework that runs on JavaScript. Instagram – enforced push notification within the style of WebView without making navigation infrastructure. The post React Native vs Flutter: Which framework is the best choice for cross-platform development in 2021?

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Development Social Media Mobile Code 52

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

Millions of lines of code comprise these apps, and they include hundreds of interconnected digital services and open-source solutions , and run in containerized environments hosted across multiple cloud services. Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) monitoring to maximize the productivity of employees using VDI.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

Data Mesh provides a drag-and-drop, self-service user interface for exploring sources and creating pipelines so that users can focus on delivering business value without having to worry about managing and scaling complex data streaming infrastructure. Currently Iceberg sink is appended only. Dehghani, Zhamak.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Our Journey so Far Over the past year, we’ve implemented the core infrastructure pieces necessary for a federated GraphQL architecture as described in our previous post: Studio Edge Architecture The first Domain Graph Service (DGS) on the platform was the former GraphQL monolith that we discussed in our first post (Studio API).

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Architecture Best Practices Engineering Open Source 249

Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2022

Our goal from the start was to not only use Dynatrace for infrastructure (e.g.: In 2021 we decided to create a “Command Center Unit”. This capability was introduced through Dynatrace’s Cloud Automation Solution which received those capabilities from the investment Dynatrace has made into the CNCF Open Source Project Keptn.

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Metrics Mobile Internet Internet 192

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Our gateways are powered by our flagship open-source technology Zuul. During our initial consultations, it was clear that developers preferred prioritizing product work over security or infrastructure improvements. You’ll hear from two teams here: first Application Security, and then Cloud Gateway.

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