The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

by Liwei Guo , Ashwin Kumar Gopi Valliammal , Raymond Tam , Chris Pham , Agata Opalach , Weibo Ni AV1 is the first high-efficiency video codec format with a royalty-free license from Alliance of Open Media (AOMedia), made possible by wide-ranging industry commitment of expertise and resources.

Media 246

Media Open Source Efficiency Software Engineering 246

Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2023

Dynatrace introduced the Dynatrace Operator, built on the open source project Operator Framework, in late 2018. Dynatrace full stack Red Hat OpenShift observability Dynatrace unifies platform engineering and application teams on a single platform, enhancing software quality and operational efficiency to drive innovation.

Architecture 170

Architecture Availability Infrastructure Metrics 170

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

As businesses take steps to innovate faster, software development quality—and application security—have moved front and center. According to GitLab’s 2021 Global DevSecOps Survey , 36% of respondents develop software using DevSecOps, compared with only 27% in 2020. It does so by creating repeatable, automated software-driven processes.

Serverless 266

Serverless Infrastructure Innovation DevOps 266

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

At Percona, we observe a growing trend among companies utilizing Kubernetes as a means to offer services to their teams, fostering expedited software delivery and driving business growth. The newly formed Open Source AI Alliance , led by META and IBM, promises to support open-source AI.

Cloud 82

Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 82

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

In general terms, here are potential trouble spots: Hardware failure: Manufacturing defects, wear and tear, physical damage, and other factors can cause hardware to fail. heat) can damage hardware components and prompt data loss. Software failure: Software applications can become vulnerable, or they can crash altogether.

Database 91

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 91

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In these modern environments, every hardware, software, and cloud infrastructure component and every container, open-source tool, and microservice generates records of every activity. The architects and developers who create the software must design it to be observed.

Metrics 363

Metrics Open Source Monitoring Infrastructure 363

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. If a primary server fails, a backup server can take over and continue to serve requests.

Availability 111

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 111

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Just like shipping containers revolutionized the transportation industry, Docker containers disrupted software. This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. The time and effort saved with testing and deployment are a game-changer for DevOps.

Open Source 302

Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 302

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

A message queue is a form of middleware used in software development to enable communications between services, programs, and dissimilar components, such as operating systems and communication protocols. For nonurgent messages, texting is a more efficient approach. Message queue software options to consider. Dynatrace news.

Monitoring 199

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 199

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

A message queue is a form of middleware used in software development to enable communications between services, programs, and dissimilar components, such as operating systems and communication protocols. For nonurgent messages, texting is a more efficient approach. Message queue software options to consider. Dynatrace news.

Monitoring 199

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 199

Percona

JUNE 30, 2023

Percona, a leading provider of open-source database software and services, announced the general availability of Percona Operator for PostgreSQL version 2. The solution is 100% open source and automates the deployment and management of PostgreSQL clusters on Kubernetes.

Availability 97

Availability Open Source Azure Hardware 97

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? We broke down the data by open source databases vs. commercial databases: Open Source Databases. Popular examples of open source databases include MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB.

Open Source 55

Open Source Database Cloud Infrastructure 55

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

The 2014 launch of AWS Lambda marked a milestone in how organizations use cloud services to deliver their applications more efficiently, by running functions at the edge of the cloud without the cost and operational overhead of on-premises servers. Dynatrace news. What is AWS Lambda? The Amazon Web Services ecosystem.

Lambda 180

Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 180

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance. Query performance Query performance is a key performance indicator (KPI) in MySQL, as it measures the efficiency and speed of query execution. Hint Hint, ProxySQL helps.

Performance 107

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 107

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

MySQL is a popular open-source relational database management system for online applications and data warehousing. However, data loss is always possible due to hardware malfunction, software defects, or other unforeseen circumstances, just like with any computer system.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 130

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. Databases are highly sophisticated software, and to design and run a fair benchmark workload is a complex undertaking. The HammerDB name.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

All Things Distributed

MARCH 19, 2018

By formalizing this concept and facilitating it with software abstractions, we provide checkpointing capabilities and fault resiliency for all algorithms. To seamlessly switch between CPU and GPU machines, we use Apache MXNet to interface with the underlying hardware. This can all be done without touching a single line of code.

Scalability 159

Scalability Hardware AWS Tuning 159

Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2021

It is safe, fast, compatible, open-source, and easy to learn. During compatibility testing of an application, we check the compatibility of the application with multiple devices, hardware, software versions, network, operating systems, and browsers, etc. The software world is following Agile and DevOps rigorously today.

Testing 84

Testing Hardware Mobile Testing Tools 84

The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

Firecracker is open source, and there are a number of projects that make it easy to work with outside of the AWS environment too, including Weave Firekube (disclaimer: Accel is an investor in Weaveworks). Thus containers provided isolation between functions, and virtualisation provided the (stronger) isolation between accounts.

Serverless 101

Serverless Virtualization Lambda AWS 101

Testlodge

JUNE 16, 2021

The complexity of the software being built and that billions of devices are connected with them through the internet, makes them vulnerable to security threats. Penetration testing is comprehensively performed over a fully-functional system’s software and hardware. It is available both as open source and as a commercial version.

Testing 67

Testing Hardware Open Source Internet 67

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2019

When it comes to hardware support to mitigate software security issues, there is a significant gap between what is available in products today and known solutions. Acceleration—Adding hardware support to reduce the runtime overheads of security features. hardware support for malware detection/prevention).

Hardware 98

Hardware Virtualization Architecture Games 98

Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

In this blog post, we will review key topics to consider for managing large datasets more efficiently in MySQL. Redundant indexes: It is known that accessing rows by fetching an index is more efficient than through a table scan in most cases. It can help us to save costs on storage and backup times.

Open Source 91

Open Source Storage Database Big Data 91

Tech News Gather

AUGUST 25, 2022

The open-source UI toolkit has been recording intense popularity among app developers. The technology is an open-source platform, making it simple to understand and work with, improving productivity and efficiency. Hardware Costs. Unlike other programs, it is compatible with both iOS and Android. Conclusion.

Development 52

Development Hardware Mobile Open Source 52

Percona

AUGUST 8, 2023

Hardware considerations The first thing we have to consider here is the resources that the underlying host provides to the database. But, much like any other software that allows for concurrent session usage, there are mutexes/semaphores in the code that are used to limit the number of sessions that can access shared resources.

Traffic 92

Traffic Cache Monitoring Database 92

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Breaking that assumption allowed Ceph to introduce a new storage backend called BlueStore with much better performance and predictability, and the ability to support the changing storage hardware landscape. The storage backend is the software module directly managing the storage device attached to physical machines.

Storage 64

Storage Systems Hardware Efficiency 64

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Making the use of resources efficiently and ensuring that this does not impact the budget available for cloud computing is not a one-time fix but a continuous cycle of picking properly sized resources and eliminating over-provisioning. Over-provisioned instances may lead to unnecessary infrastructure costs.

Cloud 122

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 122

Percona

JULY 26, 2023

It is recommended to upgrade your stack as soon as possible to take advantage of improvements and any security-related software updates. To make this process work more efficiently and ensure a smooth failover, it is important to have the same hardware configuration on all the nodes of the replica set.

Database 83

Database Servers Storage Strategy 83

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

link] 2021 - [Trader 21] Tiffany Trader, “Cerebras Second-Gen 7nm Wafer Scale Engine Doubles AI Performance Over First-Gen Chip ,” [link] Apr 2021 - [Ghigoff 21] Yoann Ghigoff, et al., "BMC:

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Apple Corporate is at fault, not Open Source engineers or the line managers who support them. Efficiently enables new styles of drawing content on the web , removing many hard tradeoffs between visual richness , accessibility, and performance. is access to hardware devices. So is speedy resolution and agreement.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. RDS also simplifies the process of automatic scaling based on workload demand, adding or subtracting replicas to efficiently distribute read requests and reduce costs during low demand.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

link] , 2021 [Trader 21] Tiffany Trader, “Cerebras Second-Gen 7nm Wafer Scale Engine Doubles AI Performance Over First-Gen Chip ,” [link] , Apr 2021 [Ghigoff 21] Yoann Ghigoff, et al.,

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

In the context of web development, performance testing entails using software tools to simulate how an application runs under specific circumstances. Google Lighthouse Google Lighthouse is a free and open source tool that is part of the Google Chrome DevTools family. What is Performance Testing?

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Error monitoring can get increasingly complicated as you deal with bugs reported by users and your production team, which is why having an efficient error tracking workflow from the beginning is so important. Sentry Sentry is a bit different from the other error tracking tools in that it is open source.

Strategy 67

Strategy Monitoring Website Google 67

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

This post explains why HammerDB made the language decisions it made to make it the best performing and most usable database benchmarking software. The benchmarking software simulates the actions of multiple individual users and these users must run in parallel to test the MVCC (Multiversion Concurrency Control) capabilities of the database.

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

Suz Hinton's talks on WebUSB show the through-line: as the web gets more capable, whole classes of software suddenly benefit from frictionless deployment, increased safety, better privacy, and more meaningful user controls. In each quantum of time, hardware and OS vendors press ahead, adding features. 86 06:16 PM · Jun 21, 2020.

Hardware 55

Hardware Games Java Media 55

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

Data Pipeline A data pipeline is a software that ingests data from multiple sources, transforms it and finally makes it available to internal or external products. A data pipeline is a software which runs on hardware. The software is error-prone and hardware failures are inevitable.

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

16% of respondents working with AI are using open source models. Many of the new open source models are much smaller and not as resource intensive but still deliver good results (especially when trained for a specific application). They will simply be part of the environment in which software developers work.

Open Source 108

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108