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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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TTP-based threat hunting with Dynatrace Security Analytics and Falco Alerts solves alert noise

Dynatrace

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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pgBackRest’s Expire and Backup With Custom Lock-Path Files

Percona

PostgreSQL is a powerful and popular open source relational database management system. In this blog post, we’ll explore a technique to help your backup strategy: running pgBackRest’s expire and backup processes in parallel while utilizing custom lock-file paths. This lock-path is utilized during backup operations.

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Infrastructure Monitoring tools: 3 steps to evolve ITOps into AIOps

Dynatrace

Between multicloud environments, container-based architecture, and on-premises infrastructure running everything from the latest open-source technologies to legacy software, achieving situational awareness of your IT environment is getting harder to achieve. Getting adequate insight into an increasingly complex and dynamic landscape.

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Using JSONB in PostgreSQL: How to Effectively Store & Index JSON Data in PostgreSQL

Scalegrid

You can also control the TOAST storage strategy: Extended – Allows for out-of-line storage and compression (using pglz). demo=# select * from books where data ? demo=# explain analyze select * from books where data ? demo=# explain analyze select * from books where data ? This is the default option.

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Dynatrace Application Security protects your applications in complex cloud environments

Dynatrace

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.

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Observability engineering: Getting Prometheus metrics right for Kubernetes with Dynatrace and Kepler

Dynatrace

Another source reported a 43% overall increase in Prometheus adoption for the last six months of 2021. As the two first graduates of the open source project incubator, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), Kubernetes and Prometheus are usually deployed together. What is Prometheus?

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