Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2021

Today’s digital businesses run on heterogeneous and highly dynamic architectures with interconnected applications and microservices deployed via Kubernetes and other cloud-native platforms. Common questions include: Where do bottlenecks occur in our architecture? Extend your topology mapping to include open-source observability data.

Analytics 246

Analytics Open Source Serverless Architecture 246

Dynatrace

MARCH 24, 2023

Problems include provisioning and deployment; load balancing; securing interactions between containers; configuration and allocation of resources such as networking and storage; and deprovisioning containers that are no longer needed. Originally created by Google, Kubernetes was donated to the CNCF as an open source project.

Infrastructure 188

Infrastructure Open Source Operating System Cloud 188

Percona

MARCH 7, 2023

One approach is to separate compute and storage to allow for independent scaling. It’s an open source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres that utilizes a serverless architecture. It’s an open source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres that utilizes a serverless architecture.

Serverless 115

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Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

Kubernetes is an open source container orchestration platform that enables organizations to automatically scale, manage, and deploy containerized applications in distributed environments. Like Kubernetes, OpenShift is an open source Kubernetes-based container platform. What is Kubernetes? What is OpenShift?

Open Source 209

Open Source Social Media Infrastructure Operating System 209

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Traditionally, though, to gain true business insight, organizations had to make tradeoffs between accessing quality, real-time data and factors such as data storage costs. Additionally, it provides index-free storage and direct analytics access to source data without requiring data rehydration. Don’t reinvent the wheel.

Analytics 193

Analytics Software Software Storage 193

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The field of Platform Engineering has witnessed significant advancements, as evidenced by the publication of the CNCF platform whitepaper and the introduction of a dedicated Platform Engineering day at the upcoming KubeCon event. They also remove toil and allow engineers to focus on application development vs platform engineering work.

Cloud 83

Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 83

DZone

JULY 29, 2019

These processes are only possible with a distributed architecture and parallel processing mechanisms that Big Data tools are based on. One of the top trending open-source data storage that responds to most of the use cases is Elasticsearch.

Big Data 157

Big Data Government Open Source Storage 157

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.

Availability 88

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 88

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

When planning your database HA architecture, the size of your company is a great place to start to assess your needs. This base architecture keeps the database available for your applications in case the primary node goes down, whether that involves automatic failover in case of a disaster or planned switchover during a maintenance window.

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 112

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

But there are cases where you might be limited in setting up a dedicated syslog server with OneAgent because of environment architecture or resources. Fluentd is an open source data collector that decouples data sources from observability tools and platforms by providing a unified logging layer. What is Fluentd?

Strategy 182

Strategy AWS Open Source Transportation 182

Percona

JULY 17, 2023

1 among non-relational/document-based systems ( DB-Engines, July 2023 ). Not really open source : Even the MongoDB Community version is not open source; it’s source-available and is under the SSPL license (introduced by MongoDB itself). It ranks No. 5 among all database management systems and No.

Open Source 80

Open Source Database Scalability Software 80

Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

From May 17 to May 18, 2021, the Open-Source Engineering team at Dynatrace attended the virtual observability conference, o11yfest. A recurring theme was Site Reliability Engineering. Trace-based sampling can help you save storage costs. This can help you save money in storage costs in the long run.

AWS 215

AWS Strategy Storage Metrics 215

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

From data lakehouse to an analytics platform Traditionally, to gain true business insight, organizations had to make tradeoffs between accessing quality, real-time data and factors such as data storage costs. IT pros need a data and analytics platform that doesn’t require sacrifices among speed, scale, and cost. What is a data lakehouse?

Efficiency 278

Efficiency Performance Analytics DevOps 278

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

Organizations everywhere are adopting site reliability engineering (SRE) to cope with the growing complexity of hybrid and cloud-native environments. Consider selecting platform-based solutions — whether open source or from a commercial vendor — that support open ecosystems. Dynatrace news. Automate as much as possible.

Best Practices 190

Best Practices Open Source Tuning Infrastructure 190

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.

Open Source 83

Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database 83

Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

From May 17 to May 18, 2021, the Open-Source Engineering team at Dynatrace attended the virtual observability conference, o11yfest. A recurring theme was Site Reliability Engineering. Trace-based sampling can help you save storage costs. This can help you save money in storage costs in the long run.

AWS 147

AWS Strategy Storage Metrics 147

Percona

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Since our previous blog post, Adding Transparent Data Encryption to PostgreSQL with pg_tde: Please Test , it received new features such as TOAST data encryption and HashiCorp Vault support for key storage. Today, we’d like to share more details about the extension, including information about its internal architecture.

Open Source 87

Open Source Storage Database C++ 87

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2022

Fluentd is an open-source data collector that unifies log collection, processing, and consumption. Output plugins deliver logs to storage solutions, analytics tools, and observability platforms like Dynatrace. Detailed performance analysis for better software architecture and resource allocation. Dynatrace news.

Metrics 182

Metrics Analytics Software Architecture Open Source 182

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Cloud-native technologies and microservice architectures have shifted technical complexity from the source code of services to the interconnections between services. Heterogeneous cloud-native microservice architectures can lead to visibility gaps in distributed traces. Dynatrace news.

Java 236

Java Traffic Strategy Architecture 236

All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

They would love to migrate to an open-source style database like MySQL or PostgresSQL if only such a database could meet the enterprise-grade reliability and performance these high-scale applications required. That database engine is now known as Amazon Aurora and launched in 2014 for MySQL and in 2016 for PostgreSQL.

Database 117

Database Design Cloud Storage 117

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Engineering teams often gravitate toward a 100% do-it-yourself approach, which is OK for experimentation and testing. Successful platform adoption requires a platform to be easy to use and integrate with other architectures, applications, and data sources. Without open standards, platforms promote lock-in and hinder innovation.

Innovation 199

Innovation Software Software Cloud 199

Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

It can help us to save costs on storage and backup times. While MySQL can handle large data sets, it is always recommended to keep only the used data in the databases, as this will make data access more efficient, and also will help to save costs on storage and backups. It supports native sharding being transparent for the application.

Open Source 92

Open Source Storage Database Big Data 92

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2022

Fluentd is an open-source data collector that unifies log collection, processing, and consumption. Output plugins deliver logs to storage solutions, analytics tools, and observability platforms like Dynatrace. Detailed performance analysis for better software architecture and resource allocation. Dynatrace news.

Metrics 130

Metrics Analytics Software Architecture Open Source 130

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

and beyond By Anoop Panicker and Kishore Banala Conductor is a workflow orchestration engine developed and open-sourced by Netflix. Many of the Netflix Content and Studio Engineering services rely on Conductor for efficient processing of their business flows. The Netflix Media Database (NMDB) is one such example.

Lambda 189

Lambda Media Open Source Metrics 189

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

The Pantheon in Rome — Extremely sustainable architecture — photo by Adrian I wrote a medium post after AWS re:Invent 2022 summarizing the (lack of) news and all the talks related to Sustainability. Explore an implementation of this architecture with PVH, the parent company of Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein.

AWS 52

AWS Energy IoT Best Practices 52

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

What we should really compare is the MySQL and Aurora database engines provided by Amazon RDS. It also supports auto-scaling of compute and storage resources, dynamically adjusting capacity based on chosen utilization thresholds to optimize performance and costs. Considering a Fully Managed DBaaS Offering For Your Business?

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Self-hosted Kubernetes installations or services — such as Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, or the Google Kubernetes Engine — make it possible for enterprises to select and implement best-fit functions. Microservices architecture combines loosely-coupled functions to create high-performing applications. The result?

Monitoring 147

Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Metrics 147

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Kubernetes (k8s) provides basic monitoring through the Kubernetes API and you can find instructions like Top 9 Open Source Tools for Monitoring Kubernetes as a “do it yourself guide”. PostgreSQL & Elastic for data storage. MaaSS for Cloud Architects: Deployment and Architecture Validations. Dynatrace news.

AWS 128

AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda 128

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Helios also serves as a reference architecture for how Microsoft envisions its next generation of distributed big-data processing systems being built. These two narratives of reference architecture and ingestion/indexing system are interwoven throughout the paper. Why do we need a new reference architecture?

Cloud 104

Cloud Big Data Latency Architecture 104

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Started years ago with a focus on cloud management, Terraform built a massive community around its open-source license–up until two weeks ago, but more on that later. A significant factor that contributed to Terraform's rise to prominence is its open-source nature. ‍Why Manage Infrastructure by Code?

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

by David Berg , Ravi Kiran Chirravuri , Romain Cledat , Savin Goyal , Ferras Hamad , Ville Tuulos tl;dr Metaflow is now open-source! mainly because of mundane reasons related to software engineering. both for compute and storage. Get started at metaflow.org. It leverages elasticity of the cloud by design?—?both

Open Source 232

Open Source AWS Infrastructure Energy 232

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

link] 2021 - [Trader 21] Tiffany Trader, “Cerebras Second-Gen 7nm Wafer Scale Engine Doubles AI Performance Over First-Gen Chip ,” [link] Apr 2021 - [Ghigoff 21] Yoann Ghigoff, et al., "BMC:

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

significant factor that contributed to Terraform's rise to prominence is its open-source nature. Being open-source, Terraform invited a vast community of developers and companies to rally around it. Imagine building a high-tech car but only having access to a basic engine.

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

In MySQL, considering the standard storage engine, InnoDB , the data cache is called Buffer Pool. Percona Monitoring and Management is a best-of-breed open source database monitoring solution. In PostgreSQL, it is called shared buffers.

Tuning 139

Tuning Cache Servers Benchmarking 139

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

by David Berg , Ravi Kiran Chirravuri , Romain Cledat , Savin Goyal , Ferras Hamad , Ville Tuulos tl;dr Metaflow is now open-source! mainly because of mundane reasons related to software engineering. both for compute and storage. Get started at metaflow.org. It leverages elasticity of the cloud by design?—?both

Open Source 134

Open Source AWS Infrastructure Energy 134

HammerDB

MAY 5, 2019

Note that the main developer of HammerDB is Intel employee (#IAMINTEL) however HammerDB is a personal open source project and HammerDB has no optimization whatsoever for a database running on any particular architecture. So to test I took a system with Skylake CPUs and all storage on a P4800X SSD. In the recent MySQL 8.0.16

Testing 48

Testing Tuning Latency Storage 48

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

The swap issue is explained in the excellent article by Jeremy Cole at the Swap Insanity and NUMA Architecture. For example: Read/Write tickets WiredTiger uses tickets to control the number of read / write operations simultaneously processed by the storage engine. The report focuses on MySQL, but it is valid for MongoDB as well.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52