Abhishek Tiwari

JANUARY 6, 2018

Here we present a list of 10 open-source Kubernetes tools to make your SRE and Ops teams more effective to achieve their service level objectives. The backup files are stored in an object storage service (e.g. Ark server performs the actual backup, validates it and loads backup files in cloud object storage. Telepresence.

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Open Source DevOps Storage Engineering 111

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In spite of reaching higher qualities than the fixed ladder, the HDR-DO ladder, on average, occupies only 58% of the storage space compared to fixed-bitrate ladder. This is achieved by more efficiently spacing the ladder points, especially in the high-bitrate region. Yes, we are committed to supporting the open-source community.

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Open Source Software Engineering Internet Internet 252

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices. The process started with manual pull of member account information that was part of the session.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

MySQL is a popular open-source relational database management system for online applications and data warehousing. The biggest drawbacks are that a full backup can be time-consuming, and they require a significant amount of storage space. Therefore, it’s not the ideal choice if there are time or storage limitations.

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Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 130

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

Anna is not only incredibly fast, it’s incredibly efficient and elastic too: an autoscaling, multi-tier, selectively-replicating cloud service. The issue is that Anna is now orders of magnitude more efficient than competing systems, in addition to being orders of magnitude faster. What's changed ?

Storage 199

Storage Performance AWS Efficiency 199

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

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?

Metrics 183

Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning 183

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

An incremental backup, which is faster and requires less storage than a full backup, captures changes made since the previous backup. All of the options above have enterprise-grade attributes, but not one of them is truly open source. So let’s discuss some options that are open source.

Database 85

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 85

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

For nonurgent messages, texting is a more efficient approach. Consumers store messages in a queue — usually in a buffer or on a storage medium — until they can process and delete them. Without it, sending an email over a long distance would require the immediate availability of every node on the routing network to forward each message.

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Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 205

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

For nonurgent messages, texting is a more efficient approach. Consumers store messages in a queue — usually in a buffer or on a storage medium — until they can process and delete them. Without it, sending an email over a long distance would require the immediate availability of every node on the routing network to forward each message.

Monitoring 205

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 205

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 102

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 102

Percona

JUNE 6, 2023

Increased Storage Requirements : One of the disadvantages of full backups is the increased storage requirements due to the fact that they capture a complete copy of all data and files. Network Bandwidth Utilization : This is another potential disadvantage when it comes to full backups. What is an incremental backup?

Storage 67

Storage Strategy Network Efficiency 67

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

High availability architecture for open source databases No matter where a database infrastructure is located (on-premises, public or private cloud environment, or hybrid environment) or what technology is used — be it MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB — it’s vital to eliminate single points of failure.

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 105

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 209 File system as a service at Netflix Kishore Kasi , Senior Software Engineer Abstract : As Netflix grows in original content creation, its need for storage is also increasing at a rapid pace. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 209 File system as a service at Netflix Kishore Kasi , Senior Software Engineer Abstract : As Netflix grows in original content creation, its need for storage is also increasing at a rapid pace. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Figure 1: PMM Home Dashboard From the Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation , an instance is considered over-provisioned when at least one specification of your instance, such as CPU, memory, or network, can be sized down while still meeting the performance requirements of your workload and no specification is under-provisioned.

Cloud 116

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 116

All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

In many, high-throughput, OLTP style applications the database plays a crucial role to achieve scale, reliability, high-performance and cost efficiency. We believe the central constraint in high throughput data processing has moved from compute and storage to the network.

Database 117

Database Design Cloud Storage 117

CSS - Tricks

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The less across the network, the less electricity. making a network request over and over) rather than something event-based like web sockets? There has got to be a balance between the propagation and duplicative storage as far as the savings that would be realized by the efficiency of saving requests. The large one.

Website 97

Website Energy Storage Efficiency 97

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. Network effects are not the same as monopoly control. Maybe start investing into open source alternatives rather than complaining they don't already exist? Do you think those evolutions would have happened with a structural separation in place?

Cloud 187

Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Today, we are releasing a plugin that allows customers to use the Titan graph engine with Amazon DynamoDB as the backend storage layer. It opens up the possibility to enjoy the value that graph databases bring to relationship-centric use cases, without worrying about managing the underlying storage. Graph databases at Amazon.

Database 134

Database Logistics Availability Social Media 134

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It’s not just limited to cloud resources like AWS and Azure; Terraform is versatile, extending its capabilities to key performance areas like Content Delivery Network (CDN) management, ensuring efficient content delivery and optimal user experience.‍Started ‍Why Manage Infrastructure by Code? But how does this apply to CDNs?

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

Percona

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Fortunately, there are ways to skip the local storage entirely and stream MongoDB backups directly to the destination. At the same time, the common goal is to save both the network bandwidth and storage space (cost savings!) However, I find zstd way more efficient, so I’ll use it in the examples. eu-central-2.wasabisys.com"}})

AWS 118

AWS Storage Database Open Source 118

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

But OpenShift provides comprehensive multi-tenancy features, advanced security and monitoring, integrated storage, and CI/CD pipeline management right out of the box. defaults to the Container Runtime Interface — Open Container Initiative (CRI-OCI), which is capable of handling a greater number of container nodes at scale. The result?

Monitoring 147

Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Metrics 147

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

significant factor that contributed to Terraform's rise to prominence is its open-source nature. Being open-source, Terraform invited a vast community of developers and companies to rally around it. We've reached an age where efficient and swift infrastructure deployment is more crucial than ever.

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

Percona

JULY 2, 2023

Having a backup strategy in place that takes regular backups and has secure storage is essential to protect the database in an enterprise-grade environment to ensure its availability in the event of failures or disasters. WALs in PostgreSQL are similar to transaction log files in the InnoDB storage engine for MySQL.

Strategy 52

Strategy Database Storage Open Source 52

Percona

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Now, since backup speed and compactness are important for busy, important databases, Percona’s open source physical backup solution – Percona XtraBackup (PXB) , takes into account all these aspects and benefits MySQL world with its exceptional capabilities! Taking backup off-peak time while the system saturation is lower.

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C++ Servers Storage Speed 101

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

and beyond By Anoop Panicker and Kishore Banala Conductor is a workflow orchestration engine developed and open-sourced by Netflix. Many of the Netflix Content and Studio Engineering services rely on Conductor for efficient processing of their business flows. The Netflix Media Database (NMDB) is one such example.

Lambda 189

Lambda Media Open Source Metrics 189

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It progressed from “raw compute and storage” to “reimplementing key services in push-button fashion” to “becoming the backbone of AI work”—all under the umbrella of “renting time and storage on someone else’s computers.” ” (It will be easier to fit in the overhead storage.)

Hardware 97

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 97

Percona

JULY 26, 2023

MongoDB is a non-relational document database that provides support for JSON-like storage. 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. MongoDB is popular with developers as it is easy to get started with.

Database 78

Database Servers Storage Strategy 78

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

There are several problems efficient test scheduling could help us solve: Quickly detect a regression in the integration of the Netflix SDK on a consumer electronic or MVPD (multichannel video programming distributor) device. Lerner, as a web-service, relies on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Netflix’s Open Source Software (OSS) tools.

Testing 163

Testing AWS Lambda Network 163

The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

Teaching rigorous distributed systems with efficient model checking Michael et al., During the ten week course, students implement four different assignments: an exactly-once RPC protocol; a primary-backup system; Paxos; and a scalable, transactional key-value storage system. EuroSys’19. Clients are also implemented as Node s.

Systems 43

Systems Efficiency Testing Strategy 43

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Make sure your system can handle next-generation DRAM,” [link] Nov 2011 - [Hruska 12] Joel Hruska, “The future of CPU scaling: Exploring options on the cutting edge,” [link] Feb 2012 - [Gregg 13] Brendan Gregg, “Blazing Performance with Flame Graphs,” [link] 2013 - [Shimpi 13] Anand Lal Shimpi, “Seagate to Ship 5TB HDD in 2014 using Shingled Magnetic (..)

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 22, 2023

In the fast-paced world of software development, the ability to deploy applications quickly and efficiently is crucial for organizations. " Open Policy Agent (OPA) : OPA is an open-source policy as code framework that provides a general-purpose policy engine.

AWS 52

AWS Best Practices Infrastructure Traffic 52

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

For example: UUID=f41e390f-835b-4223-a9bb-9b45984ddf8d / xfs rw,noatime,attr2,inode64,noquota 0 0 Unix ulimit settings Most UNIX-like operating systems, including Linux and macOS, provide ways to limit and control the usage of system resources such as threads, files, and network connections on a per-process and per-user basis.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 5, 2023

The open source Cloud Carbon Footprint Tool takes billing data (which is available monthly or hourly) as it’s input, along with estimated carbon intensity factors, and can produce workload carbon estimates, but not in real time. There are also control plane overheads, shared storage volumes and supporting services to instrument.

Energy 52

Energy Metrics Cloud Operating System 52

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Case-in-point, most enterprise CMS vendors lack robust full-site content delivery network (CDN) integration. Cost is one of the key reasons why most government organisations, mid to large sized business, and publisher prefer open source CMS options such as WordPress and Drupal.

Systems 63

Systems Cache Website Network 63

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In the Application panel go to Storage > Cookies to either clear all cookies or an individual cookie. You can then choose what device and resolution to emulate, add a network throttle, and even define the device orientation. Network Throttling Profiles You can now also add custom networking throttling profiles.

Google 85

Google Website Network Media 85

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 209 File system as a service at Netflix Kishore Kasi , Senior Software Engineer Abstract : As Netflix grows in original content creation, its need for storage is also increasing at a rapid pace. This talk explores the journey, learnings, and improvements to performance analysis, efficiency, reliability, and security.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37