The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

The Machine Learning Platform (MLP) team at Netflix provides an entire ecosystem of tools around Metaflow , an open source machine learning infrastructure framework we started, to empower data scientists and machine learning practitioners to build and manage a variety of ML systems.

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Systems Media Cache Open Source 226

Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2021

Part 1 of this series starts will cover the key ingredients needed for successful DevOps use to deliver better software faster, followed by a short overview of GitHub Actions and example use cases related to deployment and release monitoring. Key ingredients required to deliver better software faster. GitHub and GitHub Actions.

Software 246

Software Software Open Source Azure 246

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In this blog post, we will go through the process of InnoDB buffer pool resizing online, covering why it is important to monitor its progress and how to monitor it. Importance of monitoring the InnoDB buffer pool resize Since MySQL 5.7.5, This status variable reports a string value indicating buffer pool resizing progress.

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Monitoring Code Open Source Cache 86

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Open-source metric sources automatically map to our Smartscape model for AI analytics. Once you send metrics via the OneAgent REST API, the relevant hosts are automatically enriched with all available monitoring dimensions. Telegraf is an open-source agent by Influxdata.

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Open Source Metrics Analytics Tuning 257

Percona

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Percona Distribution for MySQL (PS-based variation) 8.0.34 Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.34-26

Open Source 78

Open Source Scalability Database Servers 78

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

DevOps platform engineers are responsible for cloud platform availability and performance, as well as the efficiency of virtual bandwidth, routers, switches, virtual private networks, firewalls, and network management. They are similar to site reliability engineers (SREs) who focus on creating scalable, highly reliable software systems.

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DevOps Engineering Testing Open Source 196

Dynatrace

MARCH 24, 2023

This orchestration includes provisioning, scheduling, networking, ensuring availability, and monitoring container lifecycles. Originally created by Google, Kubernetes was donated to the CNCF as an open source project. Dynatrace provides AI-powered observability into Kubernetes and Docker Swarm.

Infrastructure 190

Infrastructure Open Source Operating System Cloud 190

Percona

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Previously, I wrote about our Terraform provider to deploy Percona Server for MySQL ( Percona Server for MySQL: Automatic Cloud Deployment With Terraform ) and Percona Monitoring and Management ( Deploying Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) With Terraform ). resource "percona_ps" "psgr" { count = 1 instance_type = "t3.micro"

Open Source 122

Open Source AWS Scalability Servers 122

Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2021

The complexity of such deployments has accelerated with the adoption of emerging, open-source technologies that generate telemetry data, which is exploding in terms of volume, speed, and cardinality. How can we optimize for performance and scalability? Extend your topology mapping to include open-source observability data.

Analytics 246

Analytics Open Source Serverless Architecture 246

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 11, 2023

It’s open source, allows for great scalability with the possibility to run workloads on the cloud and on-premises Kubernetes clusters, and is easily extensible via plugins. To monitor these pipelines, OpenTelemetry can be used to trace every step of the build and send the traces to various backends.

Open Source 191

Open Source Analytics Metrics Cloud 191

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

They’re your roadmap to linking cloud moves with real business outcomes, helping you monitor progress. This process thoroughly assesses factors like cost-effectiveness, security measures, control levels, scalability options, customization possibilities, performance standards, and availability expectations.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

Percona

AUGUST 7, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. 25 is available as of August 2, 2023. is available as of August 2, 2023.

Open Source 85

Open Source Scalability Servers Database 85

Percona

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL is now available on Debian 12 (bookworm).

Open Source 76

Open Source Scalability Database Software 76

Percona

JUNE 26, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. It includes all the features and bug fixes available in the MySQL 8.0.33

Servers 70

Servers Open Source Scalability Database 70

Percona

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Release highlights include: Docker images are now available for x86_64 architectures.

Open Source 78

Open Source Azure Servers Programming 78

Percona

JULY 24, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Percona Monitoring and Management 2.38.1 Percona Monitoring and Management 2.38.1 (PMM)

Open Source 72

Open Source Scalability Database Monitoring 72

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”. End-user monitoring. Dynatrace news. For EKS – Amazon’s Kubernetes Service – you can get a preview of CloudWatch Container Insights.

AWS 128

AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda 128

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Dynatrace is redefining Application Security, applying the automation, AI, scalability, and enterprise-grade robustness of its platform to change the way security gets done. The latest enhancement enables our customers to automatically detect and assess open-source and third-party vulnerabilities in Node.js Next steps.

Java 247

Java Open Source Engineering Database 247

High Scalability

APRIL 16, 2019

In this three-part blog series, we introduced a High Availability (HA) Framework for MySQL hosting in Part I, and discussed the details of MySQL semisynchronous replication in Part II. Now in Part III, we review how the framework handles some of the important MySQL failure scenarios and recovers to ensure high availability.

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Availability Network Azure AWS 149

Percona

JUNE 4, 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. It continues to be developed and maintained by the open source community and remains free to use under the GNU General Public License.

Open Source 52

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

PostgreSQL is open source relational database management software. It has evolved steadily, however, during 25 years as an open source project. Another reason for PostgreSQL popularity (perhaps the biggest): It’s open source and free to use, distribute, and modify. What is PostgreSQL used for?

Open Source 78

Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database 78

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.

Open Source 91

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 91

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Sure, database migration is complex, particularly when you’re looking to migrate from a proprietary database to an open source one. Do you have monitoring tools in place? This is particularly true when you’re migrating to an open source database that those on your staff may or may not be intimately familiar with.

Database 82

Database Open Source Benchmarking Strategy 82

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

December 2 1pm-2pm CMP 326-R Capacity Management Made Easy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Vadim Filanovsky , Senior Performance Engineer & Anoop Kapoor, AWS Abstract :Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a hands-free capacity management experience to help customers maintain a healthy fleet, improve application availability, and reduce costs.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

December 2 1pm-2pm CMP 326-R Capacity Management Made Easy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Vadim Filanovsky , Senior Performance Engineer & Anoop Kapoor, AWS Abstract :Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a hands-free capacity management experience to help customers maintain a healthy fleet, improve application availability, and reduce costs.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Typically, Kubernetes monitoring is managed using a separate dashboard (like the Kubernetes Dashboard or the Grafana App for Kubernetes ) that shows the state of the cluster and alerts when anomalies occur. To protect yourself from this, you want to instrument your application to provide deep monitoring insights.

Virtualization 162

Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 162

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. What is Prometheus?

Metrics 182

Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning 182

DZone

JANUARY 14, 2020

Some commercial performance-monitoring solutions already take this into account, allowing performance engineers to see how long it takes for elements to render, and then to execute, on your users' browsers.

Performance Testing 130

Performance Testing Performance Testing Open Source 130

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

But with the benefits also come concerns about observability, and how to monitor and manage ever-expanding cloud software stacks. Lambda’s toolbox of automated processes helps developers streamline to build fast, robust, and scalable applications on accelerated timelines. How do AWS Lambda functions impact monitoring?

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Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 183

Percona

DECEMBER 13, 2023

By maintaining a cleaner and more relevant error log, administrators can streamline the troubleshooting and monitoring processes. This functionality allows administrators to tailor the content of the error log, focusing on critical errors while omitting less significant or expected messages. Try Percona Distribution for MySQL today!

Database 92

Database Open Source Tuning Traffic 92

Percona

MARCH 6, 2023

Validate the formula output and compare it with the information you can get from Percona Management and Monitoring (PMM). If you want an answer based on detailed information about your database usage and patterns, it’s recommended to use Percona Management and Monitoring. Redo Generation Rate: 1.1

Tuning 88

Tuning Open Source Database Engineering 88

Percona

APRIL 21, 2023

Orchestrator is a MySQL high availability and replication management tool that runs as a service and provides command line access, HTTP API, and Web interface. Below is my current topology: [root@monitor ~]# orchestrator-client -c topology-tabulated -alias testcluster | tr '|' 't' 192.168.56.10:3306 3306 0s ok 5.7.41-44-log

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C++ Monitoring Database Open Source 82

High Scalability

APRIL 3, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines.

Database 177

Database Cloud Open Source Systems 177

Percona

AUGUST 18, 2023

We monitored the replica for several days to ensure no errors were encountered. 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!

Open Source 66

Open Source Database Storage Engineering 66

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Don’t put resources into building a platform that is available off the shelf. But DIY is neither sufficient nor scalable to meet enterprise needs in the long run. Dynatrace offers best-in-class observability through an open, AI-powered data platform. Otherwise, a software intelligence platform can make sense.

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Innovation Software Software Cloud 201

Percona

JANUARY 2, 2024

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! Try Percona Distribution for MySQL today!

Servers 82

Servers Database Open Source Scalability 82

Percona

MARCH 27, 2023

This can also be seen using Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) and checking the “MySQL overview” dashboard ->“MySQL table open cache status” graphic. While you are on 5.7, Try Percona Distribution for MySQL today!

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