Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

The unstoppable rise of open source databases. One database in particular is causing a huge dent in Oracle’s market share – open source PostgreSQL. See how open source PostgreSQL Community version costs compare to Oracle Standard Edition and Oracle Enterprise Edition. What’s causing this massive shift?

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

At the same time, you can now simply flip a switch to begin ingesting observability data from these tools into the Dynatrace platform, all while retaining your investment and increasing the value you get from Dynatrace. Open-source metric sources automatically map to our Smartscape model for AI analytics.

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Open Source Metrics Analytics Tuning 258

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2023

Centralized log management for scalable ingestion into Grail As AWS S3 proves to be the preferred way of storing cloud logs, enterprise customers face mounting challenges in putting S3 log data to use. To date, some customers have used open source or community-backed components to forward logs from S3 to Dynatrace.

AWS 204

AWS Cloud Lambda Analytics 204

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Out of the box, the default PostgreSQL configuration is not tuned for any particular workload. It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning? Why is PostgreSQL performance tuning important?

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Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. Docker Engine is built on top containerd , the leading open-source container runtime, a project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (DNCF). What is Docker? What is Kubernetes?

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 19, 2018

For example, training on more data means more accurate models. At AWS, we continue to strive to enable builders to build cutting-edge technologies faster in a secure, reliable, and scalable fashion. Now, thousands of customers are trying Amazon SageMaker and building ML models on top of their data lakes in AWS.

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Scalability Hardware AWS Tuning 159

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

According to the 2019 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, web application attacks were the number one type of attack. Data from Forrester Research provides more detail, finding that 39% of all attacks were designed to exploit vulnerabilities in web applications. And open-source software is rife with vulnerabilities.

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Open Source Entertainment Tuning Internet 183

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. To get a more granular look into telemetry data, many analysts rely on custom metrics using Prometheus. What is Prometheus?

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Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning 183

Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2021

Providing standardized self-service pipeline templates, best practices, and scalable automation for monitoring, testing, and SLO validation. Microsoft’s GitHub is the largest open-source software community in the world with millions of open-source projects. GitHub and GitHub Actions.

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Software Software Open Source Azure 246

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

PostgreSQL is a free and open source object-relational database management system (ORDBMS) that has existed since the mid-1990s. Open source and free PostgreSQL is an open source database, which means it is free to use, distribute, and modify.

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Percona

JANUARY 4, 2024

They provide flexibility in data organization and performance optimization compared to the default setup. Flexible location : Data files can reside within the MySQL data directory or an independent location, enabling finer control over storage management and performance tuning. sec) root@mysql8:/etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d#

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Storage Engineering Database Hardware 84

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. However, this method limited us to instrumenting the code manually and collecting specific sets of data we defined upfront. What is OneAgent?

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Metrics Monitoring Database Network 176

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Andreas Andreakis , Ioannis Papapanagiotou Overview Change-Data-Capture (CDC) allows capturing committed changes from a database in real-time and propagating those changes to downstream consumers [1][2]. Therefore, dumps are needed to capture the full state of a source. Designed with High Availability in mind.

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Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 212

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Andreas Andreakis , Ioannis Papapanagiotou Overview Change-Data-Capture (CDC) allows capturing committed changes from a database in real-time and propagating those changes to downstream consumers [1][2]. Therefore, dumps are needed to capture the full state of a source. Designed with High Availability in mind.

Database 197

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 197

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Because they’re separate, they allow for faster release cycles, greater scalability, and the flexibility to test new methodologies and technologies. Teams can gain this understanding through topology mapping , with telemetry data from request traces, and understanding how the frontend ties to backend functions.

Architecture 237

Architecture Artificial Intelligence Cloud Open Source 237

Dynatrace

JUNE 16, 2022

At the same time, open source software (OSS) libraries now account for more than 70% of most applications’ code base, increasing the risk of application vulnerabilities. An ideal RASP technology does not need training or fine-tuning to learn what bad application behavior looks like. Not scalable in cloud-native environments.

Tuning 228

Tuning Cloud Open Source Network 228

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

This covers everything from tech specs and what you expect from the service to security, how you’ll handle data, and how services will be managed. Hosting either on-premises or with third-party data center providers and deciding whether management services should be conducted internally or outsourced.

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Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Open source has also become a fundamental building block of the entire cloud-native stack. While leveraging cloud-native platforms, open-source and third-party libraries accelerate time to value significantly, it also creates new challenges for application security.

Cloud 294

Cloud Open Source Internet Internet 294

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

In our conversations with developers and engineers during the conference, we confirmed the CNCF GItOps Microsurvey data – 91% are already using GitOps. We want adopters of our technology to be able to deploy their critical open source databases and applications across any public or private cloud environment.

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Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 76

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.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

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. From upholding data integrity to ensuring no data is lost during the transition, there’s a lot to consider. Data preparation: How are you going to backup and cleanse your data?

Database 80

Database Open Source Benchmarking Strategy 80

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2020

OpenTelemetry metrics add domain specific data such as business KPIs and license relevant consumption details. Consequently, we’ve partnered with AWS to be part of future versions of the new AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry, which provides a new way to analyze domain specific data from your AWS deployments and AWS services in Dynatrace.

AWS 180

AWS Metrics Analytics Government 180

Percona

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

With MyRocks/RocksDB, data is stored in a set of large SST files. Tuning In terms of tuning, two parameters can be tuned, the size of the bitmap and the number of bits set by every value. Bloom filters are an essential component of an LSM-based database engine like MyRocks.

Storage 124

Storage Tuning Cache Engineering 124

Percona

OCTOBER 10, 2023

This is not a general rule, but as databases are responsible for a core layer of any IT system – data storage and processing — they require reliability. Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) – A fully open source monitoring tool to help you run your databases (not limited to MongoDB).

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Availability Servers Database Open Source 95

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Netflix is known for its loosely coupled and highly scalable microservice architecture. This solves many of the consistency and development velocity challenges with minimal tradeoffs on dimensions like scalability and operability. 2) Materialized views for data from other teams?—?some 1) Single-use aggregation layers?

Architecture 359

Architecture Engineering Scalability Open Source 359

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

While NVMe or SSDs are generally more expensive than HDDs, the increased performance and reliability that they offer make them a cost-effective choice for database servers that require fast access to data and minimal downtime. If you see concurrency issues, you can tune this variable.

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Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 122

Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

PostgreSQL is open source relational database management software. It’s used for data management (shocker), application development, and data analytics. It has evolved steadily, however, during 25 years as an open source project. And there’s a global community dedicated to keeping it open source.

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Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database 75

Percona

MARCH 6, 2023

MySQL uses Redo Logs internally during crash recovery to correct data written by incomplete transactions. Redo Logs Starting from MySQL 8.0.30, the variable that should be tuned for optimizing the Redo Logs is innodb_redo_log_capacity , and we start with good news here: It’s dynamic! So you won’t have downtime if you need to tune this.

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Tuning Open Source Database Engineering 86

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

For digital enterprises, all-in-one data platforms are an essential enabler and accelerator, transforming the way businesses work. The devil is in the detail, though because of the sheer number, breadth, and volatility of technologies used in modern architectures and the immense volume, velocity, and variety of data they produce.

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Software Software Technology Technology 146

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

It has become a de facto standard for perceptual quality measurements within Netflix and, thanks to its open-source nature , throughout the video industry. As VMAF evolves and is integrated with more encoding and streaming workflows within Netflix, we need scalable ways of fostering video quality innovations. via bug fixes).

Media 171

Media Innovation Metrics Latency 171

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Critical success factors – velocity, resilience, and scalability. Stretched tools used outside of their key use-cases and beyond their core capabilities result in unreliable data leading to wrong decisions or a misplaced sense of safety. Dynatrace launches Cloud Automation module for development, DevOps & SRE teams. What’s next.

Cloud 171

Cloud DevOps Speed Azure 171

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Dynatrace has recently enhanced its Metrics APIs, allowing everyone to send any type of metric with any set of data dimension to Davis, Dynatrace’s AI engine. Christian Inzko , Performance Engineer out of our Klagenfurt Lab, is running a lot of performance tests to validate performance and scalability of our Dynatrace clusters.

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Innovation Metrics Hardware Games 157

Percona

AUGUST 7, 2023

In InnoDB, the undo log and the redo log are two indispensable components that play a vital role in maintaining data integrity and ensuring transactional consistency. Here’s how it works: Maintaining before-images: Whenever a transaction modifies data in InnoDB, the undo log records the before-image of the modified data.

Database 94

Database Tuning Storage Open Source 94

Percona

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Manual flame graphs collection Although the tool is excellent and automatically provides flame graphs, we don’t have much control over tuning the selected profiler. In some cases, it’s possible to run profilers manually on Kubernetes to have more control over the data collection process.

Code 106

Code Tuning C++ Benchmarking 106

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

GHz 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) Up to 20% higher compute performance than z1d instances Up to 50 Gbps of networking speed Up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) We can also verify these capabilities by running some simple benchmarks on the different subsystems.

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Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Percona

JULY 27, 2023

This will be handy for auditing data. has EXPLAIN FORMAT=JSON that can output data into a user variable. This could be handy for tracking query tuning and performance auditing. Seems like a lot of work to do while servers are failing, but it should save the data in a better state. has 131 bug fixes and 8.1.0

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Servers Open Source Tuning Cache 80

Percona

MARCH 27, 2023

For MySQL and Percona Server for MySQL 8, executing sysbench + I_S queries shows there almost no cache misses, as can be seen in the following snapshot: MySQL 8 improved data dictionary access, which avoids having to open all tables.frm files. Setup The setup consists of creating 10K tables with sysbench and adding 20 FKs to 20 tables.

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Cache Hardware Servers Benchmarking 97