Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

Open-source software drives a vibrant Kubernetes ecosystem. On-premises data centers invest in higher capacity servers since they provide more flexibility in the long run, while the procurement price of hardware is only one of many cost factors. Open source software drives a vibrant Kubernetes ecosystem.

Open Source 345

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 345

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

If your application runs on servers you manage, either on-premises or on a private cloud, you’re responsible for securing the application as well as the operating system, network infrastructure, and physical hardware. However, open source software is often a vector for security vulnerabilities.

Cloud 179

Cloud Open Source Architecture Monitoring 179

Testlodge

MARCH 12, 2024

End-to-end tests can often include hardware. If this is the case, request hardware units as early as possible to avoid any delays in testing due to supply issues. TestLink – TestLink is another test management tool with several integration options, and is open-source. JavaScript is the required test language.

Systems 90

Systems Testing Open Source Hardware 90

Brendan Gregg

MAY 1, 2022

My dream is to turn computer performance analysis into a science, one where we can completely understand the performance of everything: of applications, libraries, kernels, hypervisors, firmware, and hardware. Intel has historically been a top contributor to the Linux kernel, and supports countless other projects.

Wireless 145

Wireless Hardware Open Source AWS 145

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

In all these cases, prior to being delivered through our content delivery network Open Connect , our award-winning TV shows, movies and documentaries like The Crown need to be packaged to enable crucial features for our members. Multimedia standards like ISOBMFF, CMAF and CENC go hand in hand with open source software implementations.

Technology 181

Technology Technology Open Source Media 181

Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Joe Brockmeier gave a talk on this topic earlier this year at Open Source Summit North America in Vancouver – “ Are Containers Ready for Production Databases ?” Kubernetes performance is heavily influenced by the underlying hardware. ” This talk covers this topic exactly.

Open Source 85

Open Source Hardware Storage Database 85

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Migrating a proprietary database to open source is a major decision that can significantly affect your organization. Advantages of migrating to open source For many reasons mentioned earlier, organizations are increasingly shifting towards open source databases for their data management needs.

Open Source 92

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 92

DZone

APRIL 30, 2020

" I was in the search for a straightforward tool that shows me hardware "VM" metrics and allows me to check the logs without ssh into the VM and ideally tool should be Open Source.

Monitoring 159

Monitoring Servers Hardware Open Source 159

Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2024

As organizations introduce generative AI and continue to use open source code libraries, APIs, microservices, and more to innovate faster, the risk of attack compounds with more entry points for bad actors access critical data. Cloud application security is crucial to every organization.

Artificial Intelligence 214

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Best Practices DevOps 214

Percona

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For those who have not committed all to the cloud, it is time to check that your hardware and firmware are in good shape. I do not miss the days of the monthly planned server shutdown for vendor hardware maintenance from the days of yore. This is the open source database conference, and you need to be present.

Database 90

Database Open Source Hardware Operating System 90

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In modern cloud environments, every piece of hardware, software, cloud infrastructure component, container, open-source tool, and microservice generates records of every activity. Observability aims to interpret them all in real time.

Cloud 224

Cloud Infrastructure Strategy Hardware 224

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

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. The newly formed Open Source AI Alliance , led by META and IBM, promises to support open-source AI.

Cloud 79

Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 79

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Our AV1 support on Android leverages the open-source dav1d decoder built by the VideoLAN, VLC, and FFmpeg communities and sponsored by the Alliance for Open Media. In the spirit of making AV1 widely available, we are sponsoring an open-source effort to optimize 10-bit performance further and make these gains available to all.

Media 160

Media Open Source Mobile Hardware 160

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Our AV1 support on Android leverages the open-source dav1d decoder built by the VideoLAN, VLC, and FFmpeg communities and sponsored by the Alliance for Open Media. In the spirit of making AV1 widely available, we are sponsoring an open-source effort to optimize 10-bit performance further and make these gains available to all.

Media 160

Media Open Source Mobile Hardware 160

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The Android launch leveraged the open-source software decoder dav1d built by the VideoLAN, VLC, and FFmpeg communities and sponsored by AOMedia. AV1 playback on TV platforms relies on hardware solutions, which generally take longer to be deployed. Throughout 2020 the industry made impressive progress on AV1 hardware solutions.

Media 246

Media Open Source Efficiency Software Engineering 246

Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

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.

Open Source 223

Open Source Performance Testing Testing Performance 223

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 94

Availability Open Source Azure Hardware 94

Uber Engineering

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Uber’s engineers are always giving back to the Open Source community. In this blog we deep dive into the internals of the ARM64 port for Go linker and how we debugged its misbehavior on Apple Silicon hardware.

Hardware 52

Hardware Open Source Engineering 52

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

This is where Lambda comes in: Developers can deploy programs with no concern for the underlying hardware, connecting to services in the broader ecosystem, creating APIs, preparing data, or sending push notifications directly in the cloud, to list just a few examples. How does AWS Lambda work? Optimizing Lambda for performance.

Lambda 181

Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 181

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

In this scenario, message queues coordinate large numbers of microservices, which operate autonomously without the need to provision virtual machines or allocate hardware resources. Message queue software options to consider. RabbitMQ is a flexible, lightweight, and easy-to-deploy platform, and it supports many messaging protocols.

Monitoring 202

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 202

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

In this scenario, message queues coordinate large numbers of microservices, which operate autonomously without the need to provision virtual machines or allocate hardware resources. Message queue software options to consider. RabbitMQ is a flexible, lightweight, and easy-to-deploy platform, and it supports many messaging protocols.

Monitoring 201

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 201

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The layers of platforms start at the bottom with hardware choices such as which CPU architectures and vendors you want to use. Open source tools which have an open development model that allows your team to make contributions may be a better approach.

Engineering 137

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

Brendan Gregg

MAY 1, 2022

My dream is to turn computer performance analysis into a science, one where we can completely understand the performance of everything: of applications, libraries, kernels, hypervisors, firmware, and hardware. Intel has historically been a top contributor to the Linux kernel, and supports countless other projects.

Wireless 52

Wireless Hardware Open Source Cloud 52

Percona

MARCH 27, 2023

The percentage in degradation will vary depending on many factors {hardware, workload, number of tables, configuration, etc.}. Disclaimer : This blog post is meant to show a less-known problem but is not meant to be a serious benchmark. Setup The setup consists of creating 10K tables with sysbench and adding 20 FKs to 20 tables.

Cache 101

Cache Hardware Servers Benchmarking 101

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. Note that the specific configuration variables and their optimal values may vary depending on the MySQL version, system hardware, workload, and other factors.

Performance 104

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 104

Testsigma

APRIL 4, 2022

Mocking Component Behavior Useful in IoT & Embedded Software Testing Can also reduce (or eliminate) actual hardware/component need Test Reporting Generating summary report/email. If you are new to no-code tools, you can check out Testsigma which is a popular open-source no-code tool Testsigma. Get Testsigma Open Source.

Testing 95

Testing Open Source IoT Programming 95

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. The video is on [youtube]: The slides are on [slideshare] or as a [PDF]: I work on many areas of performance, but recently I've had a lot of demand to talk about BPF.

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The box was a new Android TV device with 4k playback, based on Android Open Source Project (AOSP) version 5.0, The mystery begins Towards the end of 2017, I was on a conference call to discuss an issue with the Netflix application on a new set top box. aka “Lollipop”.

Engineering 352

Engineering Code Hardware Open Source 352

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

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

The idea CFS operates by very frequently (every few microseconds) applying a set of heuristics which encapsulate a general concept of best practices around CPU hardware use. We’re using cvxpy as a nice generic symbolic front-end to represent the problem which can then be fed into various open-source or proprietary MIP solver backends.

Cache 251

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

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. present on the device without undergoing any application crash or hanging.

Testing 84

Testing Hardware Mobile Testing Tools 84

The Polyglot Developer

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

So I was researching object storage and I came across the open source distributed object storage software, Minio. The difference here is that Minio can be deployed on your own hardware. This lightweight software was written with Golang and accomplishes similar things to that of Amazon S3.

Storage 72

Storage Hardware Open Source Architecture 72

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

In particular, it appears that the trend to open source models is accelerating, and they are getting better more quickly than the well known ChatGPT, Bing and Bard services. I think that people saying that ChatGPT et.

Social Media 98

Social Media Innovation Open Source Entertainment 98

Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

ProxySQL: It is a feature-rich open-source MySQL proxy solution, that allows query routing for the most common MySQL architectures (PXC/Galera, Replication, Group Replication, etc.). MyRocks: MyRocks is a storage engine developed by Facebook and made open source. It is available under a paid subscription.

Open Source 88

Open Source Storage Database Big Data 88

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. But let’s take a quick look at the changing hardware landscape before we go on… The changing hardware landscape.

Storage 64

Storage Systems Hardware Efficiency 64

The Morning Paper

MAY 27, 2019

Last week we saw the benefits of rethinking memory and pointer models at the hardware level when it came to object storage and compression ( Zippads ). The protections are hardware implemented and cannot be forged in software. At hardware reset the boot code is granted maximally permissive architectural capabilities.

C++ 61

C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. The video is on [youtube]: The slides are [here] or as a [PDF]: first prev next last / permalink/zoom I work on many areas of performance, but recently I've had a lot of demand to talk about BPF.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52