The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Selected titles are now available to stream in AV1 for customers who wish to reduce their cellular data usage by enabling the “Save Data” feature. Our AV1 support on Android leverages the open-source dav1d decoder built by the VideoLAN, VLC, and FFmpeg communities and sponsored by the Alliance for Open Media.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Selected titles are now available to stream in AV1 for customers who wish to reduce their cellular data usage by enabling the “Save Data” feature. Our AV1 support on Android leverages the open-source dav1d decoder built by the VideoLAN, VLC, and FFmpeg communities and sponsored by the Alliance for Open Media.

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Media Open Source Mobile Hardware 160

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

However, that assumes he or she is available and has time to talk. Without it, sending an email over a long distance would require the immediate availability of every node on the routing network to forward each message. The concept is like text messaging — a feature most mobile phone users understand. Two styles of message queuing.

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Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 204

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

However, that assumes he or she is available and has time to talk. Without it, sending an email over a long distance would require the immediate availability of every node on the routing network to forward each message. The concept is like text messaging — a feature most mobile phone users understand. Two styles of message queuing.

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Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 204

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 89

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

We want adopters of our technology to be able to deploy their critical open source databases and applications across any public or private cloud environment. All of the database automation for running a highly available, resilient, and secure database is built into the operator to simplify the operation and management of your clusters.

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Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 77

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The Android launch leveraged the open-source software decoder dav1d built by the VideoLAN, VLC, and FFmpeg communities and sponsored by AOMedia. AV1 playback on TV platforms relies on hardware solutions, which generally take longer to be deployed. Throughout 2020 the industry made impressive progress on AV1 hardware solutions.

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Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Some time ago Federico Toledo published Performance Testing with Open Source Tools- Busting The Myths. Otherwise we wouldn’t see so many commercial tools built on the top of open source including BlazeMeter (it is ironic that the article is posted on the BlazeMeter site), Flood, and OctoPerf.

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Open Source Performance Testing Testing Performance 223

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance. Note that the specific configuration variables and their optimal values may vary depending on the MySQL version, system hardware, workload, and other factors.

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Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 102

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

This is where Lambda comes in: Developers can deploy programs with no concern for the underlying hardware, connecting to services in the broader ecosystem, creating APIs, preparing data, or sending push notifications directly in the cloud, to list just a few examples. How does AWS Lambda work? Optimizing Lambda for performance.

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Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 183

Percona

MARCH 27, 2023

The percentage in degradation will vary depending on many factors {hardware, workload, number of tables, configuration, etc.}. Disclaimer : This blog post is meant to show a less-known problem but is not meant to be a serious benchmark. Setup The setup consists of creating 10K tables with sysbench and adding 20 FKs to 20 tables.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The box was a new Android TV device with 4k playback, based on Android Open Source Project (AOSP) version 5.0, To play a 60fps video, the highest frame rate available in the Netflix catalog, the device must render a new frame every 16.66 aka “Lollipop”.

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Engineering Code Hardware Open Source 352

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

The idea CFS operates by very frequently (every few microseconds) applying a set of heuristics which encapsulate a general concept of best practices around CPU hardware use. The second placement looks better as each CPU is given its own L1/L2 caches, and we make better use of the two L3 caches available.

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Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2019

When it comes to hardware support to mitigate software security issues, there is a significant gap between what is available in products today and known solutions. Acceleration—Adding hardware support to reduce the runtime overheads of security features. hardware support for malware detection/prevention).

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Hardware Virtualization Architecture Games 98

Percona

JUNE 20, 2023

Inside the memory, they can be allocated any available space. When a program leaves the memory, space becomes available; however, the OS may or may not be able to allocate vacant memory space to another program or process as it has some issues. The next version of the pg_gather will have these details available.

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Programming C++ Database Virtualization 81

Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

It is available under a paid subscription. ProxySQL: It is a feature-rich open-source MySQL proxy solution, that allows query routing for the most common MySQL architectures (PXC/Galera, Replication, Group Replication, etc.). MyRocks: MyRocks is a storage engine developed by Facebook and made open source.

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Open Source Storage Database Big Data 85

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The nirvana state of system uptime at peak loads is known as “five-nines availability.” In its pursuit, IT teams hover over system performance dashboards hoping their preparations will deliver five nines—or even four nines—availability. But is five nines availability attainable? Downtime per year. 90% (one nine).

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Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 187

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. This guide provides an overview of what high availability means, the components involved, how to measure high availability, and how to achieve it. How does high availability work?

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 105

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

With so much at stake, database high availability and fault tolerance have become must-have items, but many companies just aren’t certain which one they must have. This blog article will examine shared attributes of high availability (HA) and fault tolerance (FT). What does high availability mean?

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Availability Hardware Open Source Database 77

The Morning Paper

MAY 27, 2019

Last week we saw the benefits of rethinking memory and pointer models at the hardware level when it came to object storage and compression ( Zippads ). The protections are hardware implemented and cannot be forged in software. At hardware reset the boot code is granted maximally permissive architectural capabilities.

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C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 1, 2020

For calculators, spreadsheets, and many other applications we don’t need the raw performance of hardware floating point operations. Available in open source , the resulting library is packaged in the Android Calculator app, with over 500 million installations.

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Java Hardware Open Source Testing 143

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

With the average cost of unplanned downtime running from $300,000 to $500,000 per hour , businesses are increasingly using high availability (HA) technologies to maximize application uptime. Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges.

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Availability Open Source Architecture Database 82

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Key areas include: Configuration parameter tuning : This tuning involves altering variables such as memory allocation, disk I/O settings, and concurrent connections based on specific hardware and requirements. This not only results in cost savings by minimizing hardware requirements but also has the potential to decrease cloud expenses.

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Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

In general terms, here are potential trouble spots: Hardware failure: Manufacturing defects, wear and tear, physical damage, and other factors can cause hardware to fail. heat) can damage hardware components and prompt data loss. Human mistakes: Incorrect configuration is an all-too-common cause of hardware and software failure.

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Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 85

Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2023

Dynatrace introduced the Dynatrace Operator, built on the open source project Operator Framework, in late 2018. It automates tasks such as provisioning and scaling Dynatrace monitoring components, updating configurations, and ensuring the health and availability of the monitoring infrastructure.

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Architecture Availability Infrastructure Monitoring 173

HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Additionally both commercial and open source tools based on the specifications also continued to use TPC-C and TPC-H to describe these workloads. A full understanding of why this is important requires some knowledge of the evolution of database hardware and software. But why is this important?

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C++ Benchmarking Virtualization Open Source 40

Percona

JUNE 12, 2023

When it comes to access to their applications, users demand instant, reliable, and secure interactions — and that means databases must be highly available. With database high availability (HA), services are largely uninterrupted, and end users are largely satisfied. The obvious answer is this: To achieve high availability.

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Architecture Availability Open Source Healthcare 93

VoltDB

JUNE 29, 2017

However, increasing hardware capacity doesn’t really solve the problem, and it introduces new ones. If increasing hardware is the “work harder” answer to header bidding, then “work smarter” is the better option. DSPs need to find out the best route to an impression, and will steer traffic towards the best pricing available.

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Performance Hardware Latency Infrastructure 40

VoltDB

JUNE 29, 2017

However, increasing hardware capacity doesn’t really solve the problem, and it introduces new ones. If increasing hardware is the “work harder” answer to header bidding, then “work smarter” is the better option. DSPs need to find out the best route to an impression, and will steer traffic towards the best pricing available.

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Performance Hardware Latency Infrastructure 40

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Kubernetes has all necessary primitives available to make it happen. To address this, the open source community is now trying to develop Kubernetes custom schedulers specifically optimised for big data workloads. We are talking about new Kubernetes native big data frameworks.

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Big Data Storage Benchmarking Hardware 63

The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., The paper examines the implications of microservices at the hardware, OS and networking stack, cluster management, and application framework levels, as well as the impact of tail latency.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

Testsigma

DECEMBER 28, 2019

The regression test plan must include below pointers: Purpose of testing Test strategy Features to be tested Resource Requirement Hardware Requirement Software Requirement Test schedule Change request Entry / Exit criteria Entry criteria for when to start testing Exit criteria for when to stop testing Tools. It is an open-source tool.

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Testing Hardware Testing Tools Strategy 53

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. High performance, query optimization, open source and polymorphic data storage are the major Greenplum advantages. Open Source.

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Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Container technology is very powerful as small teams can develop and package their application on laptops and then deploy it anywhere into staging or production environments without having to worry about dependencies, configurations, OS, hardware, and so on. The time and effort saved with testing and deployment are a game-changer for DevOps.

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Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 306

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Google Lighthouse Google Lighthouse is a free and open source tool that is part of the Google Chrome DevTools family. Selenium Selenium is a lightweight, open source testing framework for recording, editing, and debugging tests. WebLOAD WebLOAD offers a robust toolset that is top of the line.

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Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 18, 2019

bpftrace is a new open source tracer for Linux for analyzing production performance problems and troubleshooting software. This example instrumented one of many thousands of available events. hardware Hardware counter-based instrumentation. For large environments, this ability can help you save millions.

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Latency C++ Cache Programming 68

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

16% of respondents working with AI are using open source models. ChatGPT was opened to the public on November 30, 2022, roughly a year ago; the art generators, such as Stable Diffusion and DALL-E, are somewhat older. But 18% already have applications in production. Certainly not two-thirds of them.

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 106