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.

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Media Open Source Efficiency Software Engineering 246

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The evolution of cloud-native technology has been nothing short of revolutionary. As we step into 2024, the cornerstone of cloud-native technology, Kubernetes, will turn ten years old. The newly formed Open Source AI Alliance , led by META and IBM, promises to support open-source AI.

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Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 82

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.

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Database Open Source Hardware Operating System 93

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.

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Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 95

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.

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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.

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Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 179

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

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. and have a massive impact on the world. eBPF is in development for Windows as well (not just Linux where it originated).

Wireless 52

Wireless Hardware Open Source Cloud 52

Testsigma

APRIL 4, 2022

Automation is defined by Wikipedia as a wide range of technologies that reduce human involvement in processes. Mocking Component Behavior Useful in IoT & Embedded Software Testing Can also reduce (or eliminate) actual hardware/component need Test Reporting Generating summary report/email. Get Testsigma Open Source.

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Testing Open Source IoT Programming 95

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

It's an important vendor-neutral space to share the latest in technology. USENIX has been a great help to my career and my employers, and I hope it is just as helpful for you. And now, helping bring USENIX conferences to Australia by giving the first keynote: I could not have scripted or expected it.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

The maturing of various AI technologies has also hit some tipping points and is evolving extremely quickly week by week. 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.

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Social Media Innovation Open Source Entertainment 98

Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

While the technologies have evolved and matured enough, there are still some people thinking that MySQL is only for small projects or that it can’t perform well with large tables. MyRocks: MyRocks is a storage engine developed by Facebook and made open source. It supports native sharding being transparent for the application.

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Open Source Storage Database Big Data 91

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

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.

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Storage Systems Hardware Efficiency 64

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

It's an important vendor-neutral space to share the latest in technology. USENIX has been a great help to my career and my employers, and I hope it is just as helpful for you. And now, helping bring USENIX conferences to Australia by giving the first keynote: I could not have scripted or expected it. It was a great privilege.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

VoltDB

JUNE 29, 2017

VoltDB provides the necessary technology to achieve the latency required by header bidding. However, increasing hardware capacity doesn’t really solve the problem, and it introduces new ones. If increasing hardware is the “work harder” answer to header bidding, then “work smarter” is the better option.

Performance 40

Performance Hardware Latency Infrastructure 40

VoltDB

JUNE 29, 2017

VoltDB provides the necessary technology to achieve the latency required by header bidding. However, increasing hardware capacity doesn’t really solve the problem, and it introduces new ones. If increasing hardware is the “work harder” answer to header bidding, then “work smarter” is the better option.

Performance 40

Performance Hardware Latency Infrastructure 40

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

If cloud-native technologies and containers are on your radar, you’ve likely encountered Docker and Kubernetes and might be wondering how they relate to each other. In a nutshell, they are complementary and, in part, overlapping technologies to create, manage, and operate containers. Dynatrace news. But first, some background.

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Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 300

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

The company has used AWS to build an IT innovation zone, based upon open source products, which is being used to launch new innovations for customers like E-Mobility and E-thermostat products with a very fast time-to-market. Tom Tom – Founded in 1991, TomTom is a leading provider of navigation and location-based products and services.

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Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 129

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Limits of a lift-and-shift approach A traditional lift-and-shift approach, where teams migrate a monolithic application directly onto hardware hosted in the cloud, may seem like the logical first step toward application transformation. However, there can be drawbacks to using too many different languages and technologies.

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Architecture Artificial Intelligence Cloud Open Source 230

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

To understand how these changes affect us from a performance perspective, we need to grasp the underlying technology. Lighthouse is an open source project run by a dedicated team from Google Chrome. It’s time to come to terms that your customers aren’t using the same powerful hardware as you. PageSpeed 5.0

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Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., The paper examines the implications of microservices at the hardware, OS and networking stack, cluster management, and application framework levels, as well as the impact of tail latency.

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Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2023

Additionally, ITOA gathers and processes information from applications, services, networks, operating systems, and cloud infrastructure hardware logs in real time. Then, big data analytics technologies, such as Hadoop, NoSQL, Spark, or Grail, the Dynatrace data lakehouse technology, interpret this information. Apache Spark.

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Analytics Artificial Intelligence Big Data Open Source 186

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Generative AI has been the biggest technology story of 2023. Executive Summary We’ve never seen a technology adopted as fast as generative AI—it’s hard to believe that ChatGPT is barely a year old. 16% of respondents working with AI are using open source models. But 18% already have applications in production.

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

A data pipeline is a software which runs on hardware. The software is error-prone and hardware failures are inevitable. A data pipeline can process data in a different order than they were received. In certain scenarios exactly-once semantics is possible but the best you can do is at-least-once or at-most-once.

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Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

As DevSecOps practices gather steam in 2022, there are several concurrent technology trends that will likely further DevSecOps adoption. IaC, or software intelligence as code , codifies and manages IT infrastructure in software, rather than in hardware. Increased adoption of Infrastructure as code (IaC). GitOps becomes the new normal.

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Serverless Infrastructure Innovation DevOps 263

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 22, 2010

the simple "what if" forecasting that we can perform in an open-source spreadsheet today was a major breakthrough in productivity 30 years ago). Most corporate technology people (working in a department known as "Information Systems" as opposed to "Information Technology") didn’t take microcomputers all that seriously.

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Google Hardware Education Operating System 40

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.

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 111

Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2023

Dynatrace introduced the Dynatrace Operator, built on the open source project Operator Framework, in late 2018. Additionally, Dynatrace integrates seamlessly with cloud-native technologies and services, such as Istio and Prometheus, further enhancing its monitoring capabilities.

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Architecture Availability Infrastructure Metrics 169

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 8, 2021

They need specialized hardware, access to petabytes of images, and digital content creation applications with controlled licenses. Machine Configuration: Spinnaker Starting at the left of the chart, Spinnaker is an open-source platform that controls the creation of workstation pools.

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Entertainment Storage Hardware Open Source 306

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

With the average cost of unplanned downtime running from $300,000 to $500,000 per hour , businesses are increasingly using high availability (HA) technologies to maximize application uptime. Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges.

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Availability Open Source Architecture Database 87

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. Open-source solutions, such as OpenTelemetry , provide a de facto standard for collecting telemetry data in cloud settings.

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Metrics Open Source Monitoring Infrastructure 363

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. We have a cloud model that offers a cloud-native method of software development, but it may take several more technological evolutions for the model to advance enough to have a minimal viable portability layer. Invent the future you want. But we're ignoring that.

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Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

But as more organizations adopt cloud-native technologies and distribute workloads among multicloud environments, that goal seems harder to attain. Traditionally, teams achieve this high level of uptime using a combination of high-capacity hardware, system redundancy, and failover models. Establish service-level objectives (SLOs).

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Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 181

Tech News Gather

AUGUST 25, 2022

The open-source UI toolkit has been recording intense popularity among app developers. Today, this technology marks a total of 42% of flutter users (one-third of the mobile app developers) while the rest are influenced by native tools. Hardware Costs. There are several quick and configurable widgets available.

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Development Hardware Mobile Open Source 52

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Artificial intelligence and machine learning Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are becoming more prevalent in web development, with many companies and developers looking to integrate these technologies into their websites and web applications. JavaScript frameworks JavaScript frameworks like React, Angular, and Vue.js

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O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

” That came to mind when a friend raised a point about emerging technology’s fractal nature. Doubly so as hardware improved, eating away at the lower end of Hadoop-worthy work. Google goes a step further in offering compute instances with its specialized TPU hardware. Cloud computing?

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