Dynatrace

AUGUST 9, 2023

Not only that, teams struggle to correlate events and alerts from a wide range of security tools, need to put them into context, and infer their risk for the business. 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.

Analytics 195

Analytics AWS Strategy Infrastructure 195

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 ? DigitalOcean Advantages for MongoDB. What’s most impressive is that you’re not compromising performance for cost.

Azure 187

Azure AWS Latency Database 187

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. Include metrics, event logs, distributed traces, metadata, user experience data, and telemetry data from open source technologies and cloud platforms.

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 182

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.

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

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! We’ve compiled our speaking events below so you know what we’ve been working on. Please stop by our “Living Room” for an opportunity to connect or reconnect with Netflixers. Wednesday?—?December

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

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? ‍For CDNs, redundancy is really important.

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

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. Our cluster size ranges from 12–18 instances of AWS EC2 m4.4xlarge instances, typically running at ~30% capacity. *?—?Cassandra Cassandra persistence module is a partial implementation.

Lambda 189

Lambda Media Open Source Metrics 189

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. Most importantly, this information does not only cover the server side, but, thanks to RUM, also the client side and events in the browser.

Metrics 171

Metrics Monitoring Database Network 171

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. ‍

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2019

Keptn is the open source control plane for continuous deployment and automated operations for cloud native applications on Kubernetes. At its heart it uses Istio (for traffic control) and Knative (for event driven tool orchestration) and stores all configuration in Git – following the GitOps approach.

Architecture 125

Architecture Open Source Azure Metrics 125

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. Thus, we see that the MySQL HA framework handles split-brain scenarios effectively, ensuring both data consistency and availability in the event the network connectivity breaks between master and slave nodes.

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Availability Network Azure AWS 149

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

As a MongoDB user, it’s crucial to ensure that your data is safe and secure in the event of a disaster or system failure. 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. mongodump --host=mongodb1.example.net

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 5, 2023

The open source Cloud Carbon Footprint Tool takes billing data (which is available monthly or hourly) as it’s input, along with estimated carbon intensity factors, and can produce workload carbon estimates, but not in real time. The above discussion focuses on Scope 2, energy consumption.

Energy 52

Energy Metrics Cloud Operating System 52

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

Infrastructure 126

Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 126

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

Infrastructure 100

Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 100

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.

Performance 40

Performance Hardware Latency Infrastructure 40

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.

Performance 40

Performance Hardware Latency Infrastructure 40

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.

Serverless 40

Serverless Architecture Lambda Azure 40

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.

Open Source 279

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

In databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, transaction logs are the source of CDC events. Therefore, dumps are needed to capture the full state of a source. There are several open source CDC projects, often using the same underlying libraries, database APIs, and protocols. Designed with High Availability in mind.

Database 212

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 212

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

In databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, transaction logs are the source of CDC events. Therefore, dumps are needed to capture the full state of a source. There are several open source CDC projects, often using the same underlying libraries, database APIs, and protocols. Designed with High Availability in mind.

Database 197

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 197

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.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

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.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

We also highlight interesting broader events such as regional traffic evacuations and nearby deployments , information that is vital to understanding health holistically. It usually has dependencies, talks to other services, and lives in different AWS regions. Regional traffic evacuations. Infrastructure change events.

Monitoring 210

Monitoring Tuning Traffic Metrics 210

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. You can create your own on Chrome UX Dashboard. Large preview ). Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

We started seeing signs of scale issues, like: Slowness during peak traffic moments like 12 AM UTC, leading to increased operational burden. As the usage increased, we had to vertically scale the system to keep up and were approaching AWS instance type limits. Meson was based on a single leader architecture with high availability.

Java 202

Java Scalability Traffic Architecture 202

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. In the end, it’s not the load events or server response times that define the experience, but the perception of how snappy the interface feels. Large preview ). What does it mean?

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. Custom metrics measure a particular, custom event for the user, e.g. Twitter’s Time To First Tweet and Pinterest’s PinnerWaitTime. There are many tools allowing you to achieve that: SiteSpeed.io Large preview ).

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Four years ago, as part of our AWS fast data journey, we introduced Amazon ElastiCache for Redis , a fully managed, in-memory data store that operates at microsecond latency. Our retail customers have shared similar challenges about managing workload surges and declines driven by big sale events. Atomic slot migration.

Games 112

Games Retail Latency Education 112

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Instead of logs or metrics, Mantis enables a democratization of events where developers can tap into an event stream from any instrumented application on demand. Mantis uses an on-demand, reactive model where you don’t pay the cost for these events until something is subscribed to their stream.

Open Source 148

Open Source Metrics Engineering Processing 148

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Instead of logs or metrics, Mantis enables a democratization of events where developers can tap into an event stream from any instrumented application on demand. Mantis uses an on-demand, reactive model where you don’t pay the cost for these events until something is subscribed to their stream.

Open Source 101

Open Source Metrics Engineering Processing 101

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Instead of logs or metrics, Mantis enables a democratization of events where developers can tap into an event stream from any instrumented application on demand. Mantis uses an on-demand, reactive model where you don’t pay the cost for these events until something is subscribed to their stream.

Open Source 100

Open Source Metrics Engineering Processing 100