All Things Distributed

APRIL 11, 2018

Last year at re:Invent, we launched AWS Fargate , and today, I want to explore how Fargate fundamentally changes the landscape of container technology. Docker), and the cloud. Containers solve a fundamental code portability problem and enable new infrastructure patterns on the cloud. This is the vision behind AWS Fargate.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

the order of the rows on your Netflix home page, issuing content licenses when you click play, finding the Open Connect cache closest to you with the content you requested, and many more). All these micro-services are currently operated in AWS cloud infrastructure.

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Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

We used this model effectively at Netflix when I was their cloud architect from 2010 through 2013. The virtualization and networking platform could be datacenter based, with something like VMware, or cloud based using one of the cloud providers such as AWS EC2.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

Soon after the launch of Amazon Relation Dabase Service (RDS) AWS customers were giving us feedback that they would love to migrate to RDS but what they would love even more was if we could also unshackle them from the high-cost, punitive licensing schemes that came with the proprietary databases.

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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. In the following sections, we demo the following: Introduce Unguard, our insecure cloud-native microservices demo application.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Troubleshooting a session in Edgar When we started building Edgar four years ago, there were very few open-source distributed tracing systems that satisfied our needs. Our tactical approach was to use Netflix-specific libraries for collecting traces from Java-based streaming services until open source tracer libraries matured.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

This spring I travelled through Europe for the AWS Global Summit series. Europe is a continent with much diversity and for each country there are great AWS customer examples to tell. Given that I am originally from the Netherlands I have, of course, a special interest in how Dutch companies are using our cloud services. .

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 22, 2023

For instance, Sentinel policies can enforce rules such as "All AWS S3 buckets must have server-side encryption enabled" or "Only specific IAM roles can access certain resources." " Open Policy Agent (OPA) : OPA is an open-source policy as code framework that provides a general-purpose policy engine.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target.

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High Scalability

APRIL 16, 2019

Application traffic will be redirected to this new master MySQL node and the slave S2 will start replicating from the new master. At ScaleGrid, we offer highly available hosting for MySQL on AWS and MySQL on Azure that is implemented based on the concepts explained in this blog series.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

If you’re using PostgreSQL in the cloud, there’s a good chance you’re spending more than you need in order to get the results you need for your business. Usage reduction: What to look for to reduce PostgreSQL cloud costs The first step in cost reduction is to use what you need and not more. Don’t pay for capacity you don’t use or need.

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Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A quick configuration change may do the trick in improving the performance of your AWS RDS for MySQL instance. Thus, using Dedicated Log Volumes (DLVs), though new in AWS RDS, has been one of the recommended best practices and is a welcome setup improvement for your RDS instance. and later v10 versions MySQL: 8.0.28

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

For example, a ranking team would ingest live user traffic and subject it to a number of ranking configurations and simulate the event outcomes using predictive models running on canary rankers. To support these efforts, they developed and open sourced some tools along the way. Sam described Ax and BoTorch?—?Ax

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

For example, a ranking team would ingest live user traffic and subject it to a number of ranking configurations and simulate the event outcomes using predictive models running on canary rankers. To support these efforts, they developed and open sourced some tools along the way. Sam described Ax and BoTorch?—?Ax

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VoltDB

JUNE 29, 2017

And while it’s easy to say “spin up more AWS servers”, you’re only adding to your cloud provider bill. DSPs need to find out the best route to an impression, and will steer traffic towards the best pricing available. Open source analytics tools can give you this information – but not in real-time.

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VoltDB

JUNE 29, 2017

And while it’s easy to say “spin up more AWS servers”, you’re only adding to your cloud provider bill. DSPs need to find out the best route to an impression, and will steer traffic towards the best pricing available. Open source analytics tools can give you this information – but not in real-time.

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The Symphonia

MAY 22, 2018

Also there’s been a lot of open source updates, including from Amazon and Microsoft. and products like AWS Fargate have made this distinction murkier still. Finally in this first overall section it was good to be able to talk about AWS SAM and SAR?—?“Serverless I also wrote an article on just this area last year.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

Software reliability and resiliency don’t just happen by simply moving your software to a modern stack, or by moving your workloads to the cloud. This article was inspired by an email I received from Thomas Reisenbichler , Director of Autonomous Cloud Enablement on Friday, June 11 th. Fact #1: AWS EC2 outage properly documented.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

MongoDB is the #3 open source database and the #1 NoSQL database in the world. So, what makes DigitalOcean a compelling alternative to other popular MongoDB hosting providers like AWS and Azure ? What’s most impressive is that you’re not compromising performance for cost.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

We use and contribute to many open-source Python packages, some of which are mentioned below. takes place in Amazon Web Services (AWS), whereas everything that happens afterwards (i.e., video streaming) takes place in the Open Connect network. If any of this interests you, check out the jobs site or find us at PyCon.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2022

Over the last year, Dynatrace extended its AI-powered log monitoring capabilities by providing support for all log data sources. We added monitoring and analytics for log streams from Kubernetes and multicloud platforms like AWS, GCP, and Azure, as well as the most widely used open-source log data frameworks.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It’s not just limited to cloud resources like AWS and Azure; Terraform is versatile, extending its capabilities to key performance areas like Content Delivery Network (CDN) management, ensuring efficient content delivery and optimal user experience.‍Started ‍Why Manage Infrastructure by Code?

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Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there are multiple questions regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily: When should I use Aurora and when should I use RDS MySQL ? Amazon Aurora is a proprietary, cloud-native, fully managed relational database service developed by Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. While high-volume traffic often boosts sales, it can also compromise uptimes. But as more organizations adopt cloud-native technologies and distribute workloads among multicloud environments, that goal seems harder to attain.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In fact, Amazon Web Services (AWS) paved the way with its service, CloudFormation, which introduced the concept of Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Taking inspiration from AWS's CloudFormation, HashiCorp introduced Terraform with a broader vision. Take Cloudflare as an example; they have an entire service called Cloudflare Terraform.

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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. And that’s where Dynatrace OneAgent comes in. What is OneAgent? OneAgent is the native telemetry data collector and monitoring solution of Dynatrace.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Cloud-based development and deployment One of the main advantages of cloud-based development and deployment is scalability. With cloud-based infrastructure, organizations can easily scale their web applications to handle increased traffic or demand without the need for expensive hardware upgrades.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

There are several open source CDC projects, often using the same underlying libraries, database APIs, and protocols. No locks on tables are ever acquired, which prevent impacting write traffic on the source database. Hence, downstream consumers have confidence to receive change events as they occur on a source.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

There are several open source CDC projects, often using the same underlying libraries, database APIs, and protocols. No locks on tables are ever acquired, which prevent impacting write traffic on the source database. Hence, downstream consumers receive change events as they occur on a source.

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Percona

MAY 2, 2023

Also, we will take a look at our open-source backup utility custom-built to help avoid costs and proprietary software – Percona Backup for MongoDB or PBM. Especially if going into or out of storage types that may throttle bandwidth/network traffic. It also supports storing the backups on filesystem and AWS S3 buckets.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2019

Because we analyzed the results of our Autonomous Cloud Survey and sat down with a handful of these companies that provided answers to questions such as: What’s your Commit Cycle Time? Keptn is the open source control plane for continuous deployment and automated operations for cloud native applications on Kubernetes.

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 31, 2018

AWS Cloud 9 AWS Cloud 9 is ideal for developing PHP applications completely in the cloud. Aptana Studio Aptana Studio boasts a surprising amount of features for an open source IDE. This open source solution enables single-step debugging and stack trace functionality.

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Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 5, 2023

The challenge is that accurate data isn’t available immediately, and cloud providers currently only provide monthly carbon data, with several months lag. Cloud providers don’t disclose their own REC and Private Purchase Agreements, but these are taken into account in their monthly reports, with a few months delay.

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Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

According to Ericsson’s analysis, international mobile data traffic is projected to become 4.5 Technologies like Microsoft Bot framework, Facebook Bot Engine, and DailougeFlow open-source builds these bots. Image Source. Serverless architecture is the fastest-growing cloud computing paradigm nowadays. Image Source.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

This is why most AWS regions have three availability zones. The second team is the software platform team, who provide standardized supported libraries, bundled open source projects, packaged commercial software, operating systems, build pipelines, language runtimes, databases, external high level services etc.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

This is why most AWS regions have three availability zones. The second team is the software platform team, who provide standardized supported libraries, bundled open source projects, packaged commercial software, operating systems, build pipelines, language runtimes, databases, external high level services etc.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 11, 2012

Expanding the Cloud â?? And like most AWS services, Amazon CloudSearch scales automatically as your data and traffic grow, making it an easy choice for applications small to large. Search is an essential part of many of todays cloud-centric applications. All Things Distributed. Introducing Amazon CloudSearch. Comments ().

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