Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China. DNS Poisoning/Spoofing.

Website 97

Website Internet Internet Performance 97

Percona

APRIL 26, 2023

Even though open source software is firmly in the mainstream, used widely by businesses, governments, and everyone who owns a cell phone or computer, the question repeatedly arises: “Is open source software safe?” Is open source software as stable as other software? Our bar is higher than that.

Open Source 87

Open Source Software Software Social Media 87

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. Ford, et al., “TCP

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2021

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China. DNS Poisoning/Spoofing.

Website 52

Website Internet Internet Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

APRIL 27, 2021

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China. DNS Poisoning/Spoofing.

Website 52

Website Internet Internet Performance 52

High Scalability

AUGUST 9, 2018

And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. John Mark : It’s time to understand something about open source software development: it is not going to save us. Don't miss them.

Internet 21

Internet Internet Scalability Open Source 21

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., Ford, et al., “TCP on Upcoming Sapphire Rapids CPUs,” [link] Oct 2020 - [Liu 20] Linda Liu, “Samsung QVO vs EVO vs PRO: What’s the Difference?

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

There's a move to regulate cloud providers by vertically separating the services they offer. Like railroads of yore, who were not allowed to provide freight services on top of their base services, cloud providers would not be allowed to provide services on top of their base platform services. The job of a cloud is to run workloads.

Cloud 187

Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

Smashing Magazine

JULY 26, 2021

Gatsby recently announced the launch of Functions which opens up a new dimension of possibilities — and I for one couldn’t be more excited! If you’re interested to know more about how GeoJsonGeometry works, here’s the open-source repository for reference: [link]. Closing Thoughts. — Are we live? with Kyle Mathews.

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Serverless Code Servers Open Source 142

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

If cloud-native technologies and containers are on your radar, you’ve likely encountered Docker and Kubernetes and might be wondering how they relate to each other. A standard Docker container can run anywhere, on a personal computer (for example, PC, Mac, Linux), in the cloud, on local servers, and even on edge devices.

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Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 300

O'Reilly

JANUARY 16, 2024

I’ve been diligent about data backup throughout my life, but my files are fragmented amongst different media over the years—burning CDs and DVDs back in the day, several generations of external hard drives (that are in various states of decay), university servers, Dropbox, and other cloud services.

Entertainment 73

Entertainment Internet Internet Design 73

Scalegrid

JULY 8, 2019

Are you looking to get started with the world’s most popular open-source database, and wondering how you should setup your MySQL hosting ? So many default to Amazon RDS, when MySQL performs exceptionally well on Azure Cloud. The Best Way to Host MySQL on Azure Cloud Click To Tweet. MySQL DBaaS vs. Self-Managed MySQL.

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Azure Cloud Virtualization Database 219

Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2019

WordPress is the largest website builder platform in the world, supporting over 34% of all websites on the internet today. MySQL is a free open source relational database management system that is leveraged across a majority of WordPress sites, and allows you to query your data such as posts, pages, images, user profiles, and more.

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Database Cloud Website Azure 166

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

It can scale towards a multi-petabyte level data workload without a single issue, and it allows access to a cluster of powerful servers that will work together within a single SQL interface where you can view all of the data. High performance, query optimization, open source and polymorphic data storage are the major Greenplum advantages.

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Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

A web application is any application that runs on a web server and is accessed by a user through a web browser. Their “ State of Open Source Security Report, 2020 ” found that the most common vulnerabilities are cross-site scripting vulnerabilities (18%), followed by malicious packages (13%). What is web application security?

Open Source 180

Open Source Entertainment Tuning Internet 180

High Scalability

DECEMBER 21, 2018

What could be better than a book on the cloud? Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. swardley: X : What's going to happen in cloud in 2019? 2) Cloud will decentralise in terms of provision not power i.e. Amazon will "invade" more of those holdouts with AWS Outpost. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please support me on Patreon.

Internet 137

Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 137

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

We use and contribute to many open-source Python packages, some of which are mentioned below. video streaming) takes place in the Open Connect network. Demand Engineering Demand Engineering is responsible for Regional Failovers , Traffic Distribution, Capacity Operations and Fleet Efficiency of the Netflix cloud.

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Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

Scalegrid

JANUARY 17, 2019

This open source tool has cross-platform support and actually embeds the mongo shell within its interface to provide both shell and GUI-based interaction. For AWS customers who have their deployments open to the internet, this will involve adding the identified machine’s IP address to the ScaleGrid cluster’s whitelist.

Database 178

Database Servers Open Source AWS 178

Percona

JULY 17, 2023

A survey of 90,240 companies using MongoDB listed the leading uses as Technology and Services (23%), Computer Software (16%), and Internet (6%). 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).

Open Source 78

Open Source Database Scalability Software 78

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The open-source scripting language PHP is used by over 78% of all websites that use a server-side programming language. Lack of automation to keep pace with dynamic clouds and rapid software development practices. Asset exposure —indicates exposure of the vulnerable code to the internet. Dynatrace news.

Social Media 185

Social Media Open Source Media Cloud 185

Percona

MAY 9, 2023

The organization’s apps, therefore, must run on one particular server. Will you be able to move it freely among different applications, environments, and cloud services? The perception can be that the services are superior to those of competitors and superior to open source offerings. Ask about data portability.

Open Source 93

Open Source Database Innovation Cloud 93

Scalegrid

JUNE 11, 2019

Ready to transition from a commercial database to open source, and want to know which databases are most popular in 2019? Wondering whether an on-premise vs. public cloud vs. hybrid cloud infrastructure is best for your database strategy? Cloud Infrastructure Analysis : Public Cloud vs. On-Premise vs. Hybrid Cloud.

Open Source 55

Open Source Database Cloud Infrastructure 55

Percona

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Logical replication The pg_dump method requires downtime as we must take the dump and restore it on the new server. Logical replication keeps the source database operational while transferring data to the target database. Logical replication may not be enabled if you migrate a database from an on-premises server.

Database 97

Database Open Source Servers Internet 97

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

16% of respondents working with AI are using open source models. If we asked whether their companies were using databases or web servers, no doubt 100% of the respondents would have said “yes.” A year after the first web servers became available, how many companies had websites or were experimenting with building them?

Open Source 108

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

Particular Software

JUNE 1, 2020

More and more companies are realizing that it’s in their best interest to move to the cloud. As software consultants at Headspring , we’re often tasked with helping organizations migrate their highly complex legacy systems to modern cloud environments. MSMQ is not a cloud-friendly technology—it only provides local queues.

Cloud 52

Cloud Transportation Azure Government 52

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Its blog articles will definitely come in handy as your projects scale, but they’re also great reading for those who simply want to understand the philosophies behind specific dev practices in the front end or server side. Visit website 6. features collected articles that concentrate on what makes JavaScript work and what doesn’t.

Development 75

Development Website Design Code 75

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. Database downtime can hurt or doom any company with anything to do with the internet. Load balancing : Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded.

Availability 110

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 110

Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2022

At Kitopi we are satisfying the worlds’ appetite by running a high-tech powered network of cloud kitchens. And not to forget – besides our orders we are also monitoring the kitchen itself such as whether a kitchen is currently open and operating or how the internet connectivity to the central servers is.

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Metrics Mobile Internet Internet 198

Percona

AUGUST 1, 2023

Source: “Meowing” attack completely destroyed more than 1000 databases These are the words of Bob Diachenko, one of the most respected cybersecurity researchers in relation to a “Meowing” attack, which destroyed between 1000-4000 databases around the world. What does MongoDB offer to mitigate security threats?

Best Practices 41

Best Practices Transportation Open Source Traffic 41

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Yet, for all these technological developments, it’s interesting that many of us are still serving sites in the same way Tim did with the very first website — a web server serving static website files. It was a battle of not only proprietary vs open source but also static vs dynamic. But, when it worked, it was magical.

Ecommerce 139

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Our fast computers and fiber internet masked the experience real people have on our site. Internet Explorer 6 was fully supported, Firefox was gaining share, and Chrome was still years from launch. Over time, we’ve evolved through a variety of static site generators, JavaScript frameworks, and server technologies.

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Google Analytics Serverless Metrics 93

Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

on, you can use mysqlbinlog to stream binary logs from a remote server. Also from cloud services, our DB instance can be broken and it’s non-accessible. DataCenter Failure : power outage or internet provider issues. Seven daily and four weekly logical backups locally on the backup server. From MySQL 5.6

Best Practices 79

Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 79

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

In the MySQL open source ecosystem, we have only two consolidated ways to perform sharding — Vitess and ProxySQL. In shard-nothing, each shard can live in a totally separate logical schema instance / physical database server/data center/continent. The POC Why this POC?

Traffic 126

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 126

Enprowess

MARCH 10, 2022

Server rendering in Angular vs React. Source: reactjs.org. React is an open-source JavaScript library for web development. In addition, React JavaScript framework uses server-side rendering to give a flexible, performance-oriented solution. Source: angular.io. React can support server-side rendering.

Development 52

Development Google Open Source Servers 52

Testsigma

JUNE 5, 2021

As the number of websites has increased with time, so has the source of traffic leading to that website. In 2015, 35% of the internet traffic came from mobile devices, 6 years later, the number is 54.8%. It can be done via open source or via commercial tools. Then, the best way is to opt for a cloud-based device lab.

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Mobile Testing Website Testing Tools 52