Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

From May 17 to May 18, 2021, the Open-Source Engineering team at Dynatrace attended the virtual observability conference, o11yfest. To improve their alerting system, the team decided to move to SLO/SLI-based alerting, which require deeper knowledge of the application but are more helpful than generalized metric alerts.

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Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

In 2021, these attacks grew by more than 300% compared with 2020 , according to a study by Argon Security. Open source vulnerabilities creeping in through the software supply chain are one key reason for this substantial increase. According to one survey, supply chain attacks on open source software increased 650% in 2021.

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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. Security by design is an approach to developing systems that integrate security principles into the entire software development lifecycle. What is security by design?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

If your application runs on servers you manage, either on-premises or on a private cloud, you’re responsible for securing the application as well as the operating system, network infrastructure, and physical hardware. However, open source software is often a vector for security vulnerabilities.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 11, 2023

Consider Log4Shell , a zero-day vulnerability that emerged in 2021, affecting millions of applications. Log4Shell required many organizations to take devices and applications offline to prevent malicious attackers from gaining access to IT systems and sensitive data. Threats to applications can be costly and disruptive.

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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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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. These two papers provide many more insights: Automated system performance testing at MongoDB , DBTest 2020 [ Video ]. The latest update will be presented at ICPE 2021 by David Daly on April 21, 2021.

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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. How Log4j 2 can be exploited depends on the specifics of the affected system.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 13, 2022

Open source code, for example, has generated new threat vectors for attackers to exploit. A case in point is Log4Shell, which emerged in late 2021 and exposed open source libraries to exploitation. Dynatrace introduces automatic vulnerability management for PHP open source scripting language – blog.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). 2021-12-02T14:00:43+00:00. 2021-12-02T17:05:37+00:00. The Java Advent 2021 is here! Festive Tech Calendar 2021. Iris Lješnjanin. Amy Dutton on Twitter.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 21, 2022

Key takeaways from this article on vulnerability management for cloud application security: Today’s cloud apps with their fast innovation cycles and frequent use of open-source libraries must address a gap for runtime vulnerability management in production environments. Dynatrace news. Contextual insight.

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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

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Do material incidents on “third-party systems” require disclosure? The mandate explains why this is the case: “A reasonable investor would [not] view a significant breach of a registrant’s data as immaterial merely because the data were housed on a third-party system …. Regulatory risks are also increasing.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Vulnerability assessment is the process of identifying, quantifying, and prioritizing the cybersecurity vulnerabilities in a given IT system. The goal of an assessment is to locate weaknesses that can be exploited to compromise systems. NMAP is an example of a well-known open-source network scanner. Assess risk.

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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

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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

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 2, 2022

Malicious attackers have gotten increasingly adept at identifying vulnerabilities and launching attacks to exploit these weak points in IT systems. 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.

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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. For orientation on the use cases in this blog series, refer to the picture below. Blog series use cases.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 3, 2022

Malicious attackers have gotten increasingly better at identifying vulnerabilities and launching zero-day attacks to exploit these weak points in IT systems. A zero-day exploit is a technique an attacker uses to take advantage of an organization’s vulnerability and gain access to its systems.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

For busy site reliability engineers, ensuring system reliability, scalability, and overall health is an imperative that’s getting harder to achieve in ever-expanding, cloud-native, container-based environments. Another source reported a 43% overall increase in Prometheus adoption for the last six months of 2021.

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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

AUGUST 18, 2022

But managing the breadth of the vulnerabilities that can put your systems at risk is challenging. 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.

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Brendan Gregg

MAY 28, 2021

As another indicator of tech moving elsewhere, last year brought the [headline]: "Bay Area's share of VC deals predicted to fall below 20% for first time in 2021." Now, in 2021, Australia has a thriving tech market. Linux has been described as the world's most successful open source project, and it's all engineers working remotely.

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Adrian Cockcroft

MAY 23, 2022

I keynoted 20 AWS Summits around the world, presented on technical and management topics at many events, and hired the open source community engagement team. I joined Amazon in October 2016, as a VP in AWS Marketing focused on building relationships with customers.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

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. Indeed, according to a Dun & Bradstreet and Forrester Consulting report, 72% of organizations find managing multiple systems across regions and technology silos challenging.

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Percona

APRIL 26, 2023

Even though open source software is firmly in the mainstream, used widely by businesses, governments, and everyone who owns a cell phone or computer, the question repeatedly arises: “Is open source software safe?” Is open source software as stable as other software? Our bar is higher than that.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2021

2021-08-10T11:45:00+00:00. 2021-08-10T13:04:46+00:00. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Indiepen is our first open-source project and we are very excited to share our ideas with you. Cookieless Alternative To Embed HTML, CSS And JS Code Snippets. Cookieless Alternative To Embed HTML, CSS And JS Code Snippets.

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Code Website Open Source Design 109

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

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

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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HammerDB

JULY 14, 2021

Copyright (C) 2003-2021 Steve Shaw Type "help" for a list of commands The xml is well-formed, applying configuration hammerdb>librarycheck. Vuser 2:Loading 13 Warehouses start:1 end:13 Vuser 2:Start:Wed Jul 07 07:33:24 PDT 2021 Vuser 2:Loading Warehouse Vuser 2:Loading Stock Wid=1. ~/HammerDB-4.2/lib/mariatcl0.1$ lib/mariatcl0.1$

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

2021-03-19T13:30:00+00:00. 2021-03-19T15:28:04+00:00. Also, if you have released an open-source tool and would love to draw more attention to it, please let us know as well and we’d love to have you presenting your project here in the magazine as well. Architecting Design Systems. New Adventures In Front-End 2021.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

This is also applicable for people adding it to their own in-house monitoring systems. You likely already have agents running on all your customer systems. There are so many options it's really your own preference based on your existing system and customer environments. opensnoop Files opened table.

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Latency Cache Energy Systems 145

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

2021-06-29T11:00:00+00:00. 2021-07-13T02:07:04+00:00. But this allows us to decouple content from code, by moving content to a Content Management System (CMS) we can update information in a few seconds, regardless of how big our application is. Breaking Down Bulky Builds With Netlify And Next.js. Átila Fassina. Build Times.

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Cache Website Strategy Traffic 129

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

2021-09-02T12:00:00+00:00. 2021-09-02T15:09:03+00:00. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Image source: Elevator Saga ). Screeps is an open-source massive multiplayer online real-time strategy game that lets you use real JavaScript code to build a colony, mine resources, conquer territory, and more.

Development 145

Development Games Education Programming 145

Brendan Gregg

MAY 28, 2021

As another indicator of tech moving elsewhere, last year brought the [headline]: "Bay Area's share of VC deals predicted to fall below 20% for first time in 2021." Now, in 2021, Australia has a thriving tech market. Now we're more scattered, either to other US cities or worldwide. Day to day things won't be much different.

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