Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

In their annual sustainability report in July 2023 AWS did update their list of sustainable regions to highlight 19 regions that are 100% sustainable — using an annual local market methodology for scope 1 and 2. Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure released Scope 3 data in 2021.

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Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2024

According to McKinsey’s State of AI in 2023 report, 40% of respondents said their organizations plan to increase their overall AI investment because of advancements in generative AI. Observability is critical for monitoring application performance, infrastructure, and user behavior within hybrid, microservices-based environments.

Artificial Intelligence 222

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Best Practices DevOps 222

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

If your app runs in a public cloud, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP), the provider secures the infrastructure, while you’re responsible for security measures within applications and configurations. However, open source software is often a vector for security vulnerabilities.

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Cloud Open Source Architecture Monitoring 171

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

As we at Percona wind down 2023 and look into what the next year holds, our attention is drawn to the cloud-native landscape and how it is maturing, growing, and evolving. KubeCon NA 2023 recap The theme for KubeCon NA was very clear — AI and Large Language Models (LLMs). We expect that number to rise higher in 2024.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

What I learned at GlueCon 2023 — Tipping Points and Generative AI The final slide of my GlueCon keynote featuring a sunset over a pool in Maui — picture by Adrian I’ve presented at GlueCon many times over the last decade or so. Rob Hirschfeld of RackN had this perspective on the impact of AI on his domain of infrastructure automation.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Kubernetes is a widely used open source system for container orchestration. By gaining insights into how your Kubernetes workloads utilize computing and memory resources, you can make informed decisions about how to size and plan your infrastructure, leading to reduced costs.

Efficiency 267

Efficiency Monitoring Best Practices Open Source 267

Dynatrace

MARCH 20, 2024

During the development stage, vulnerabilities can arise when developers use third-party open-source code or make an error in application logic. Explore how Dynatrace can help CISOs better manage risk in the 2023 CISO Report. Ready to learn more about how DevSecOps enables faster innovation without compromising security?

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Monitoring Analytics Traffic Best Practices 204

Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2023

Dynatrace has supported the OpenTelemetry project for years as a key contributor and contributed to its rise to a popular open source observability framework for cloud-native software. When combined with out-of-the-box correlation, such telemetry data provides context-rich observability.

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Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

PostgreSQL is open source relational database management software. In another survey, using multiple metrics for overall popularity, PostgreSQL ranks as the fourth most popular database management system ( DB-Engines, March 2023 ). It has evolved steadily, however, during 25 years as an open source project.

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Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database 80

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

OpenTelemetry, the open source observability tool, has emerged as an industry-standard solution for instrumenting application telemetry data to make it observable. OpenTelemetry is a free and open source take on observability. Especially if you have custom applications that rely on APIs to integrate with other services.

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Metrics Open Source Traffic Cache 174

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Picture by Adrian — Ka’anapali sunset 2023 There’s been a lot of discussion about platforms recently, I talked about why I think it’s a current hot meme on the WTF Podcast with Charles Humble recently, and Sam Newman just wrote a blog post “ Don’t call it a platform ”.

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Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Migrating a proprietary database to open source is a major decision that can significantly affect your organization. Advantages of migrating to open source For many reasons mentioned earlier, organizations are increasingly shifting towards open source databases for their data management needs.

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Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 94

Dynatrace

AUGUST 9, 2023

Falco is an open-source, cloud-native security tool that utilizes the Linux kernel technology  eBPF , to generate fine-grained networking, security, and observability events. First, Dynatrace OneAgent  will automatically monitor and trace our infrastructure and communicate with Dynatrace.

Analytics 188

Analytics AWS Strategy Infrastructure 188

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

The first can provide you with in-depth database monitoring without vendor lock-in or licensing costs, while the second provides you with end-to-end observability beyond database infrastructure. Percona Monitoring and Management is a best-of-breed open source database monitoring solution. openmetrics.d/conf.yaml

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Monitoring Metrics Database Open Source 72

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

According to the 2023 Kubernetes in the Wild report , 65% of organizations use Prometheus. Another source reported a 43% overall increase in Prometheus adoption for the last six months of 2021. This covers the infrastructure, processes, and the application stack, including tracing, profiling, and logs. What is Prometheus?

Metrics 171

Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning 171

O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

These algorithms save everyone time and money: by helping users navigate through thousands of products to find the ones with the highest quality and the lowest price, and by expanding the market reach of suppliers through Amazon’s delivery infrastructure and immense customer network. Disclosure is another powerful market-shaping tool.

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Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 88

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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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

JUNE 4, 2023

This blog post was originally published in November 2017 and was updated in June 2023. MariaDB is a popular SQL open source relational database management system that originated as a fork of MySQL after MySQL was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008 and later Oracle in 2010. What is MariaDB? Contact us to learn more!

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Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The development of internal platform teams has taken off in the last three years, primarily in response to the challenges inherent in scaling modern, containerized IT infrastructures. The ability to effectively manage multi-cluster infrastructure is critical to consistent and scalable service delivery.

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Engineering DevOps Best Practices Infrastructure 266

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Here is a roundup of frontend web development trends to keep an eye on in 2023. With cloud-based infrastructure, organizations can easily scale their web applications to handle increased traffic or demand without the need for expensive hardware upgrades. The main benefits of serverless architecture are cost savings and scalability.

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Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

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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Scalability Best Practices Servers Database 60

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In his keynote address on the first day of Perform 2023 in Las Vegas, Dynatrace Chief Technology Officer Bernd Greifeneder and his colleagues discussed how organizations struggle with this problem and how Dynatrace is meeting the moment. Open source solutions are also making tracing harder.

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Analytics Innovation Metrics Database 179

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. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since March 27, 2023. was released on March 27, 2023.

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Open Source Servers AWS Database 79

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Generative AI has been the biggest technology story of 2023. As of November 2023: Two-thirds (67%) of our survey respondents report that their companies are using generative AI. 16% of respondents working with AI are using open source models. Late in 2023, we suspect that relatively few companies have a policy.

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

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. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since January 9, 2023. was released on January 23, 2023.

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Open Source Storage AWS Cloud 85

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Increased adoption of Infrastructure as code (IaC). IaC, or software intelligence as code , codifies and manages IT infrastructure in software, rather than in hardware. Infrastructure as code is also known as software-defined infrastructure, or software intelligence as code.

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Serverless Infrastructure Innovation DevOps 257

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. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since March 13, 2023. was released on March 23, 2023.

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Open Source Servers Scalability Cache 79

Percona

JULY 17, 2023

1 among non-relational/document-based systems ( DB-Engines, July 2023 ). Those problems (some with shared elements) include: High cost and complicated pricing structure : Many companies say MongoDB has an expensive and complicated pricing structure ( Cloud Zero, January 2023 ). It ranks No.

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Open Source Database Scalability Software 77

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

How Dynatrace tracks and mitigates its own IT carbon footprint Like many tech companies, Dynatrace is experiencing increased demand for its SaaS-based Dynatrace platform , which we host on cloud infrastructure. As we onboard more customers, the platform requires more infrastructure, leading to increased carbon emissions.

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Energy Cloud Airlines Strategy 226

Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2023

OpenTelemetry is an open source framework that provides agents, APIs, and SDKs that automatically instrument, generate, and gather telemetry data. It also provides tools and integrations with popular open source projects, including Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Jaeger, and Prometheus, among others. What is OpenTelemetry?

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Open Source Analytics Lambda Metrics 189

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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Percona

AUGUST 29, 2023

You won’t need LXD to replicate this POC, of course, but I can’t say enough how flexible and versatile such an environment can be when prototyping a cluster of Postgres nodes, let alone an entire multi-data center infrastructure on a single workstation.

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C++ Database Storage Testing 81

Percona

JULY 19, 2023

2023-07-07T10:11:22+03:00 pgv2.percona.com Conclusion GitOps, combined with Kubernetes and the Percona Operator for PostgreSQL , provides a powerful toolset for rapidly deploying and managing complex database infrastructures. Even when ArgoCD detects the change, it marks it as out of sync. Interested?

Servers 80

Servers Best Practices DevOps Open Source 80

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

OpenTelemetry , the open source observability tool, has become the go-to standard for instrumenting custom applications to collect observability telemetry data. Heading over to `Infrastructure` / `Hosts` in your dashboard, you should now have an entry for the host where you installed OneAgent. Register now!

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Metrics Monitoring Database Network 166

Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This blog was originally published in Sept 2021 and was updated in November 2023. Following the series of blogs started by Peter Zaitsev in Installing MySQL with Docker , on deploying Docker containers running open source databases, in this article, I’ll demonstrate how to install and run PostgreSQL using Docker.

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Database Open Source Scalability Virtualization 71

Percona

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Before you begin, you will need to have a Kerberos infrastructure and a basic understanding of how it works. 2023-01-31 19:25:18.585 PKT [42302] LOG: hostgssenc record cannot match because GSSAPI is not supported by this build Step 3: Kerberos configuration You will need to configure Kerberos to work with PostgreSQL.

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