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New critical vulnerability, CVE-2022-42889, in Apache Commons Text discovered (but no need to panic)

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 18, 2022

A new critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability was disclosed on October 13, 2022. While some view CVE-2022-42889 as the next Log4Shell vulnerability , others see its impact as more limited. CVE-2022-42889 not as critical as Log4Shell. CVE-2022-42889 not as critical as Log4Shell. Starting with version 1.5,

Java

Java Open Source Virtualization Code

Kubernetes in the wild report 2023

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022. Open-source software drives a vibrant Kubernetes ecosystem. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022. In 2022, Kubernetes became the key platform for moving workloads to the public cloud. Likewise, the share of cloud-hosted clusters increased from 31% in 2021 to 45% in 2022.

Open Source

Open Source Java Operating System Programming

USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. The call for participation ends on March 2nd 23:59 SGT!

Performance

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization

What is container orchestration?

Dynatrace

MARCH 24, 2023

According to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s 2022 Cloud Native Survey , nearly 80% of organizations use containers in at least some production environments. Although Kubernetes dominates within the cloud-native community, the 2022 CNCF report finds it does not have a monopoly in the container industry.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure Open Source Operating System Cloud

USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. It was a great privilege.

Performance

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization

What is cloud application security?

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.

Cloud

Cloud Open Source Architecture Monitoring

Updated Percona Distribution for MySQL, Percona XtraDB Cluster: Release Roundup January 9, 2023

Percona

JANUARY 9, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since December 27, 2022. Take a look!

Open Source

Open Source Database Servers Software

The anatomy of the Spring4Shell vulnerability and how to prevent its effects—and those of similar vulnerabilities

Dynatrace

APRIL 14, 2022

Spring4Shell is a critical vulnerability in the Spring Framework , which emerged in late March 2022. Spring is a widely used open source Java-based framework for building web applications with the Java Enterprise Edition platform. Further, the report lists Tomcat as the most popular Java application server.

Java

Java Servers Code Open Source

How to Install or Upgrade Percona Server for MySQL/MySQL 8 to a Specific Version on Debian/Ubuntu

Percona

JUNE 15, 2023

Sometimes we might need to install/upgrade Percona Server for MySQL /MySQL 8 to a particular version in a test or production environment. Install Percona Server for MySQL 8 specific version packages via repository. Download specific Percona Server for MySQL 8 tarball packages and install them manually. bullseye amd64 1.7

Servers

Servers C++ Database Systems

What is vulnerability management? And why runtime vulnerability detection makes the difference

Dynatrace

AUGUST 18, 2022

According to the 2022 CISO Research Report , only 25% of respondents’ security teams “can access a fully accurate, continuously updated report of every application and code library running in production in real-time.” Vulnerability management is an essential part of securing IT operations.

Traffic

Traffic Java Network DevOps

Three ways to optimize open source contributions

Dynatrace

JUNE 29, 2023

Because open source software (OSS) is taking over the world, optimizing open source contributions is becoming an essential competitive strategy. The figures speak for themselves: 80% of organizations increased their OSS use in 2022. However, open source is not a panacea.

Open Source

Open Source Energy DevOps Innovation

Percona’s MySQL Audit Log Plugin – An Enterprise Feature at a Community Price

Percona

DECEMBER 5, 2022

This functionality is available in the free, open source Audit Plugin that is included in Percona Server for MySQL. The prerequisite for installing Percona’s Audit Log Plugin is to first install Percona Server for MySQL. Percona Server for MySQL is a drop-in replacement for MySQL. Commands end with ; or g.

Open Source

Open Source C++ Servers Database

Tale of a MySQL 8 Upgrade and Implications on Backup

Percona

JANUARY 5, 2023

It prints and stores the binary log position of the source server which can be useful to set up new replicas from the source. Further, we noticed that whenever PXB starts taking backups, the replication stops on the backup server. 2022-09-09T11:15:01.248442-00:00 2 [Note] [MY-011825] [Xtrabackup] Copying. .**

Database

Database Servers Open Source Engineering

Purging Data When the Table Is Big and Has Children Tables

Percona

MARCH 3, 2023

23] (Slave_delay: 0) This means the following: A primary server, with Percona Server for MySQL installed (in Read/Write mode) version 8.0.31-23. Check the database’s topology, whether one or more servers were replicating, if it was a Percona XtraDB Cluster , etc. mysqlserver01=127.0.0.2 [RW] RW] [ver: 8.0.31-23]

Database

Database Testing Servers Open Source

Rebuild Patroni Replica Using pgBackRest

Percona

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Both these open source tools have been saviors for DBAs for achieving high availability and performing restoration in ample ways. In this blog, we will integrate both of these tools and understand how they can work together to reduce the server load. It can be on a dedicated server or one of the DB hosts.

Open Source

Open Source Servers Database Availability

What Is PostgreSQL Used For?

Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

PostgreSQL is open source relational database management software. Most recently, in StackOverflow’s 2022 Stack Developer Survey , PostgreSQL took a slight lead over MySQL (46.48% to 45.68%) as the most popular database platform among professional developers. What is PostgreSQL used for? Is PostgreSQL enterprise-ready?

Open Source

Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database

PMM V2.33: Offline Metric Collection, Guided Alerting Tour, Security Fixes, and More!

Percona

DECEMBER 19, 2022

include: Offline metric collection during PMM server outages or loss of PMM client-server network connectivity. This new feature ensures that the PMM Client saves the monitoring data locally when a connection to the PMM server is lost, preventing gaps in the data. Some of the key highlights of PMM V2.33 In PMM 2.33.0,

Metrics

Metrics Monitoring Servers Open Source

Identify Active Databases and Users in MySQL

Percona

JANUARY 25, 2023

We also have two stats table features present in Percona Server for MySQL and MySQL Community versions as follows: User Statistics Sys-schema-table-statistics User Statistics: We have another way to identify the active databases, users, and other information in Percona Server for MySQL (and MariaDB). processlist_DB1_20221215.log

Database

Database C++ Servers Open Source

Open Source vs. Proprietary Database Software: What To Choose?

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.

Open Source

Open Source Database Software Software

How the Great Firewall of China Affects Performance of Websites Outside of China

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

Any website request initially goes to the DNS server to fetch the IP address of the website and accesses it on the responded address. Even if you try to access the website by directly using the correct IP address of a website, if that IP is blocked by using this technique, you won’t be able to access it (especially in 2022).

Website

Website Internet Internet Performance

Mega List of Updates, Bug Fixes, New Features! Release Roundup December 12, 2022

Percona

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since November 28, 2022. Take a look! was released.

Open Source

Open Source Azure Database Servers

Percona Monitoring and Management 2.33, Percona Distribution for MongoDB 4.4.18: Release Roundup December 27, 2022

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since December 12, 2022. Take a look!

Monitoring

Monitoring Open Source Database Servers

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 10th, 2018

High Scalability

AUGUST 9, 2018

One of the documents says in no uncertain terms that the company understands they will not be competitive in the server market until AFTER Sapphire Rapids, the 2022 server part. John Mark : It’s time to understand something about open source software development: it is not going to save us.

Internet

Internet Internet Scalability Open Source

I Actually Chatted with ChatGPT

O'Reilly

JANUARY 16, 2024

ChatGPT was released just over a year ago (at the end of November 2022), and countless people have already written about their experiences using it in all sorts of settings. (I I even contributed my own hot take last year with my O’Reilly Radar article Real-Real-World Programming with ChatGPT.) What more is left to say by now?

Entertainment

Entertainment Internet Internet Design

Top Frontend Frameworks to use in 2022

Enprowess

JANUARY 11, 2022

React is amongst the widely utilized and popular open-source web development frameworks. Server side rendering is a massive boost for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). As one of the top front end framework of 2022, VueJS is adopted by many companies namely Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, Behance, Xiaomi and others. MaterialUI.

Virtualization

Virtualization Website Speed Mobile

20+ Powerful React libraries you should explore in 2022

Enprowess

AUGUST 24, 2021

React is one of the open-source JavaScript libraries used chiefly for front-end designing and mobile app development. List of best React Libraries in 2022. Not only that, but the React router library also offers stable screen-to-screen transition, server-side rendering, and vivid nesting support. Create-React-App.

Open Source

Open Source Mobile Design Code

A New Pattern For The Jamstack: Segmented Rendering

Smashing Magazine

JULY 18, 2022

2022-07-18T11:00:00+00:00. 2022-07-18T18:32:57+00:00. Segmented Rendering is a new pattern for the Jamstack that lets you personalize content statically, without any sort of client-side rendering or per-request Server-Side Rendering. Your server will have to serve witty jokes for each reader. Eric Burel.

Cache

Cache Website Energy Servers

Angular vs React: What to choose for web development in 2022?

Enprowess

MARCH 10, 2022

According to Statista, Angular and React will be the two most popular front-end frameworks among developers worldwide in 2022. Server rendering in Angular vs React. Source: reactjs.org. React is an open-source JavaScript library for web development. Source: angular.io. Two-way Data Binding Availability.

Development

Development Google Open Source Servers

Percona Backup for MongoDB 2.0.3, Updates to Percona Distribution for MySQL: Release Roundup January 30, 2023

Percona

JANUARY 30, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive. that fixes the security vulnerability CVE-2022-32149. that fixes the security vulnerability CVE-2022-32149.

Open Source

Open Source Storage AWS Cloud

Can You Trust AI Chatbots When Seeking Help With Databases?

Percona

DECEMBER 14, 2023

I don’t know, but certainly, the launching of ChatGPT at the end of 2022 sparked a huge hype explosion around that technology throughout this year. Me : OK, so if I want to downgrade my MongoDB standalone server from version 7.0 Bard : Downgrading MongoDB Standalone Server from 7.0 Server: Stop the MongoDB 7.0

Database

Database Artificial Intelligence Servers Operating System

Dealing With “Too Many Connections” Error in MySQL 8

Percona

MARCH 8, 2023

Your MySQL connection id is 144 Server version: 8.0.29-21 21 Percona Server (GPL), Release 21, Revision c59f87d2854 Copyright (c) 2009-2022 Percona LLC and/or its affiliates Copyright (c) 2000, 2022, Oracle and/or its affiliates. Your MySQL connection id is 145 Server version: 8.0.29-21 Commands end with ; or g.

C++

C++ Database Servers Open Source

How to build HammerDB from source

HammerDB

MAY 26, 2022

You may want to become familiar with all the underlying source code in C or wish to build a distribution where you can verify every single line of source code that goes into HammerDB. However, the client or server must be installed for all of Db2, MariaDB, PostgreSQL and MySQL for the HammerDB build to be successful.

C++

C++ Database Open Source Servers

15 Important Updates, Bug Fixes, and Improvements Across the Board: Release Roundup April 10, 2023

Percona

APRIL 10, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive. Percona Distribution for MySQL (Percona Server for MySQL-based variation) 8.0.32 It’s time for the release roundup!

Open Source

Open Source Servers AWS Database

Setting Up and Deploying PostgreSQL for High Availability

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.

Availability

Availability Open Source Architecture Database

Top 9 web development trends to expect in 2022

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

The Top web development trends in 2022. Let’s dive deep into the top website development trends to expect in 2022. To make it easier for you, in this blog, we will discuss the latest web development trends that will evolve in 2022. List of Top Web Development Trends to Track in 2022. Image Source.

Blockchain

Blockchain IoT Development Serverless

How Partytown Eliminates Website Bloat From Third-Party Apps

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

2022-04-29T10:30:00+00:00. 2022-04-29T13:05:53+00:00. Shipping starts early January 2022. Partytown is a lightweight open-source solution that reduces execution delays due to third-party JavaScript by offloading third-party scripts to web workers, which run in background threads. Steve Sewell. Builder.io

Website

Website Google Open Source Mobile

Ready-to-Use High Availability Architectures for MySQL and PostgreSQL

Percona

JUNE 12, 2023

Open source databases provide great foundations for high availability — without the pitfalls of vendor lock-in that can come with proprietary software. However, open source software doesn’t typically include built-in HA solutions.

Architecture

Architecture Availability Open Source Healthcare

ProxySQL for Short-Term Application Fixes

Percona

APRIL 4, 2023

When executing the query, Perl was trying to quote an empty string instead of the bit representation of 0, causing the tool to fail (note this is output from the locally reproduced dummy schema/data): 2022-10-18T14:19:02 0 0 DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Truncated incorrect DOUBLE value: '' [for Statement "DELETE FROM `myd_test`.`gerald`

Open Source

Open Source Servers Engineering Scalability

The Ultimate Guide to Database High Availability

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

More specifically, a 2022 ITIC survey found that downtime costs more than $300,000 per hour for 91% of small-, mid-size, and large enterprises. Load balancing : Requests are evenly distributed across multiple database servers, ensuring the system remains operational even if one server fails.

Availability

Availability Database Open Source Hardware

Generative AI in the Enterprise

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

16% of respondents working with AI are using open source models. If we asked whether their companies were using databases or web servers, no doubt 100% of the respondents would have said “yes.” A year after the first web servers became available, how many companies had websites or were experimenting with building them?

Open Source

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure

Business Observability and Optimization through Apache Kafka and Dynatrace

Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2022

And not to forget – besides our orders we are also monitoring the kitchen itself such as whether a kitchen is currently open and operating or how the internet connectivity to the central servers is. Because remember – it is 2022! And in 2022 no ops team should stare at dashboards to manually alert on a spike in rejected orders.

Metrics

Metrics Mobile Internet Internet

Updated Percona Distributions for MySQL, Percona Distributions for MongoDB: Release Roundup March 27, 2023

Percona

MARCH 27, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive. It is an open source database monitoring, management, and observability solution for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.

Open Source

Open Source Servers Scalability Cache

Revamp MySQL Query Optimization and Overcome Slowness of ORDER BY with LIMIT Queries

Percona

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The global default can be set at server startup. Percona Distribution for MySQL is the most complete, stable, scalable, and secure open source MySQL solution available, delivering enterprise-grade database environments for your most critical business applications… and it’s free to use!

Efficiency

Efficiency Database Open Source Performance

PostgreSQL Partitioning Using Traditional Methods

Percona

JULY 3, 2023

However, a rule of thumb is that the size of the table should exceed the physical memory of the database server. EXPLAIN select * from employees where joined >= '2022-05-12' and joined < '2022-06-10'; QUERY PLAN Seq Scan on employees_q2 (cost=0.00.2.37

Storage

Storage Database Performance Open Source

New critical vulnerability, CVE-2022-42889, in Apache Commons Text discovered (but no need to panic)

Kubernetes in the wild report 2023

Trending Sources

USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

What is container orchestration?

USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

What is cloud application security?

Updated Percona Distribution for MySQL, Percona XtraDB Cluster: Release Roundup January 9, 2023

The anatomy of the Spring4Shell vulnerability and how to prevent its effects—and those of similar vulnerabilities

How to Install or Upgrade Percona Server for MySQL/MySQL 8 to a Specific Version on Debian/Ubuntu

What is vulnerability management? And why runtime vulnerability detection makes the difference

Three ways to optimize open source contributions

Percona’s MySQL Audit Log Plugin – An Enterprise Feature at a Community Price

Tale of a MySQL 8 Upgrade and Implications on Backup

Purging Data When the Table Is Big and Has Children Tables

Rebuild Patroni Replica Using pgBackRest

What Is PostgreSQL Used For?

PMM V2.33: Offline Metric Collection, Guided Alerting Tour, Security Fixes, and More!

Identify Active Databases and Users in MySQL

Open Source vs. Proprietary Database Software: What To Choose?

How the Great Firewall of China Affects Performance of Websites Outside of China

Mega List of Updates, Bug Fixes, New Features! Release Roundup December 12, 2022

Percona Monitoring and Management 2.33, Percona Distribution for MongoDB 4.4.18: Release Roundup December 27, 2022

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 10th, 2018

I Actually Chatted with ChatGPT

Top Frontend Frameworks to use in 2022

20+ Powerful React libraries you should explore in 2022

A New Pattern For The Jamstack: Segmented Rendering

Angular vs React: What to choose for web development in 2022?

Percona Backup for MongoDB 2.0.3, Updates to Percona Distribution for MySQL: Release Roundup January 30, 2023

Can You Trust AI Chatbots When Seeking Help With Databases?

Dealing With “Too Many Connections” Error in MySQL 8

How to build HammerDB from source

15 Important Updates, Bug Fixes, and Improvements Across the Board: Release Roundup April 10, 2023

Setting Up and Deploying PostgreSQL for High Availability

Top 9 web development trends to expect in 2022

How Partytown Eliminates Website Bloat From Third-Party Apps

Ready-to-Use High Availability Architectures for MySQL and PostgreSQL

ProxySQL for Short-Term Application Fixes

The Ultimate Guide to Database High Availability

Generative AI in the Enterprise

Business Observability and Optimization through Apache Kafka and Dynatrace

Updated Percona Distributions for MySQL, Percona Distributions for MongoDB: Release Roundup March 27, 2023

Revamp MySQL Query Optimization and Overcome Slowness of ORDER BY with LIMIT Queries

PostgreSQL Partitioning Using Traditional Methods

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