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.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2024

Nearly all government technology leaders (97%) reported the complexity of their technology stack has increased in the past 12 months. Full stack observability enables IT teams to identify and respond to evolving issues across the entire technology stack from mainframes to multicloud environments.

Infrastructure 197

Infrastructure Efficiency Government Transportation 197

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.

Analytics 178

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Big Data Open Source 178

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.

Open Source 290

Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 290

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 145

Wireless Hardware Open Source AWS 145

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

The unstoppable rise of open source databases. One database in particular is causing a huge dent in Oracle’s market share – open source PostgreSQL. See how open source PostgreSQL Community version costs compare to Oracle Standard Edition and Oracle Enterprise Edition. What’s causing this massive shift?

Open Source 244

Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

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.

Architecture 220

Architecture Artificial Intelligence Cloud Open Source 220

Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2024

As more organizations adopt generative AI and cloud-native technologies, IT teams confront more challenges with securing their high-performing cloud applications in the face of expanding attack surfaces. But only 21% said their organizations have established policies governing employees’ use of generative AI technologies.

Artificial Intelligence 218

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Best Practices DevOps 218

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

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 105

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 105

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.

Architecture 161

Architecture Availability Infrastructure Metrics 161

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.

Cloud 77

Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 77

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.

Metrics 363

Metrics Open Source Monitoring Infrastructure 363

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 87

Database Open Source Hardware Operating System 87

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.

Availability 83

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 83

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).

Infrastructure 173

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 173

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

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

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.

Serverless 254

Serverless Infrastructure Innovation DevOps 254

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 173

Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 173

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 140

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.

Testing 95

Testing Open Source IoT Programming 95

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.

Development 52

Development Hardware Mobile Open Source 52

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). This tradeoff is unacceptable to public infrastructure providers, who need both strong security and minimal overhead.

Serverless 101

Serverless Virtualization Lambda AWS 101

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.

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

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.

Social Media 98

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.

Open Source 85

Open Source Storage Database Big Data 85

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.

Storage 64

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

Testsigma

JUNE 19, 2020

Various free open source and paid automation testing tools were introduced. Selenium was the first open-source automation tool introduced and organizations moved towards this tool for their test automation needs. Selenium is an open-source and free software 2. Introduction to Selenium.

Testing Tools 60

Testing Tools Testing Open Source Java 60

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

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.

Cloud 129

Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 129

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

Google 71

Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

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.

Open Source 112

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 112

Percona

AUGUST 29, 2023

So, it’s not an understatement when I say that Citus is one of the more interesting technologies that I’ve come across when scaling PostgreSQL. Depending on the configuration, one can tune a hardware RAID for either performance or redundancy. The same can be said for Citus data sharding.

C++ 79

C++ Database Storage Testing 79