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Performance Testing with Open Source Tools – Myths and Reality

Alex Podelko

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 Software Security: Is Open Source Software Safe?

Percona

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.

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Open-Sourcing Metaflow, a Human-Centric Framework for Data Science

The Netflix TechBlog

by David Berg , Ravi Kiran Chirravuri , Romain Cledat , Savin Goyal , Ferras Hamad , Ville Tuulos tl;dr Metaflow is now open-source! Netflix applies data science to hundreds of use cases across the company, including optimizing content delivery and video encoding. The steps can be arbitrary Python code.

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Introducing SVT-AV1: a scalable open-source AV1 framework

The Netflix TechBlog

What does this example have to do with software development and video encoding? Intel and Netflix announced their collaboration on a software video encoder implementation called SVT-AV1 on April 8, 2019. The first successful digital video standard was MPEG-2, which truly enabled digital transmission of video.

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SVT-AV1: an open-source AV1 encoder and decoder

The Netflix TechBlog

SVT-AV1: open-source AV1 encoder and decoder by Andrey Norkin , Joel Sole , Mariana Afonso , Kyle Swanson, Agata Opalach , Anush Moorthy , Anne Aaron SVT-AV1 is an open-source AV1 codec implementation hosted on GitHub [link] under a BSD + patent license. It is not equal to the average of per sequence values.

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Reasons to Choose an Open-Source Test Automation Tool

Testsigma

To meet this demand, tester’s rely on test automation tools to rapidly roll out high-quality software. Open-source software development has grown increasingly popular over the last two decades. They are leveraging open-source testing tools that are reliable, secure, and free to use. Check out Github.

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Toward a Better Quality Metric for the Video Community

The Netflix TechBlog

by Zhi Li, Kyle Swanson, Christos Bampis, Lukáš Krasula and Anne Aaron Over the past few years, we have been striving to make VMAF a more usable tool not just for Netflix, but for the video community at large. VMAF is a video quality metric that Netflix jointly developed with a number of university collaborators and open-sourced on Github.

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