Percona

JULY 20, 2023

We often forget or take for granted the network hops involved and the additional overhead it creates on the overall performance. Meanwhile, Hans-Jürgen Schönig’s presentation , which brought up the old discussion of Unix socket vs. TCP/IP connection, triggered me to write about other aspects of network impact on performance.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

We present two sets. On the other hand, the optimized ladder presents a sharper increase in quality with increasing bitrate. Yes, we are committed to supporting the open-source community. This background is useful to have before looking at rate vs quality curves pertaining to these two formats. The first set (Fig.

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Open Source Software Engineering Internet Internet 252

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Introducing gnmi-gateway: a modular, distributed, and highly available service for modern network telemetry via OpenConfig and gNMI By: Colin McIntosh, Michael Costello Netflix runs its own content delivery network, Open Connect , which delivers all streaming traffic to our members.

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Open Source Network Transportation Cache 186

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., It’s a pretty impressive effort to pull together and make available in open source (not yet available as I write this) such a suite, and I’m sure explains much of the long list of 24 authors on this paper.

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Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

In this blog, we will discuss both data and network-level compression offered in MongoDB. We will discuss snappy and zstd for data block and zstd compression in a network. When this data block is read, it decompresses it in memory and presents it to the incoming request. I am using PSMDB 6.0.4

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Storage Network Open Source Latency 108

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.

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Cloud Infrastructure Strategy Hardware 230

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The vulnerability was first reported to the Apache Foundation (an open-source project) on November 24 by security researcher Chen Zhaojun of Alibaba, China’s largest e-commerce company, after an attack was documented on December 9 and affected servers of the game Minecraft. When was the vulnerability in the Log4j 2 library discovered?

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Internet Internet Games Java 263

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Open source has also become a fundamental building block of the entire cloud-native stack. While leveraging cloud-native platforms, open-source and third-party libraries accelerate time to value significantly, it also creates new challenges for application security.

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Cloud Open Source Internet Internet 296

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

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. This enables email message processing in a quick and reliable way, even during periods of heavy network congestion. Message queue software options to consider.

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Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 209

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

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. This enables email message processing in a quick and reliable way, even during periods of heavy network congestion. Message queue software options to consider.

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Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 208

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. We were very pleased to see that AV1 streaming improved members’ viewing experience, particularly under challenging network conditions.

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Media Open Source Efficiency Software Engineering 246

Percona

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

There are several exciting conferences on the calendar where you can expand your technical knowledge and network. This is the open source database conference, and you need to be present. Now that I have mentioned conferences, please register for Percona Live May 22nd to 24th in Denver, Colorado.

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Database Open Source Hardware Operating System 90

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. Despite all its upside, PostgreSQL software presents such challenges. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.), there cannot be high availability.

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Availability Open Source Architecture Database 84

Scalegrid

AUGUST 22, 2019

It is an open-source tool suite, written in Python, for managing high availability of PostgreSQL clusters. The yaml configuration file must be present using these high level configuration settings: Global/Universal. Network Isolation Tests. Network-isolate the master server from other servers. Test Scenario.

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Availability Servers Network Open Source 277

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 108

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 20, 2020

and thanks to the magic of open source, it’s only about a hundred lines of Python code. Zero-valued entries represent all the other words in the dictionary that were not present in that sentence. Our solution produces 20,000 candidate lines in 20 min of computing?—?and 0.3, -0.5, -0.7, and “problem authenticating” might be [0.1,

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Development Open Source Tuning Network 177

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

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. The software is truly open source. This may involve taking a server offline, rerouting network traffic, or replacing a failed disk drive.

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Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 88

Dynatrace

APRIL 6, 2022

Endpoints include on-premises servers, Kubernetes infrastructure, cloud-hosted infrastructure and services, and open-source technologies. Not just infrastructure connections, but the relationships and dependencies between containers, microservices , and code at all network layers. Why full-stack observability matters.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 3, 2022

A zero-day vulnerability can become endemic when it’s present in a system for an extended amount of time and is more complex to protect against. half of all corporate networks. A zero-day attack occurs when an attacker exploits these software vulnerabilities and causes significant damage before an update or patch has been implemented.

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Java Traffic Benchmarking Strategy 195

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Cloud environments—including multicloud, hybrid, and cloud-native ecosystems—offer unmatched agility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness, though they also present new challenges and complexities that are impossible to manage manually.

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Cloud DevOps Code Open Source 181

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The virtualization and networking platform could be datacenter based, with something like VMware, or cloud based using one of the cloud providers such as AWS EC2. Open source tools which have an open development model that allows your team to make contributions may be a better approach.

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Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Vector is open source and in use by multiple companies. Vector is an open-source host-level performance monitoring framework which we have been using for some time. to the broader community. These updates also bring other user experience improvements and a fresher technology stack. Charts are now resizable and movable.

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Performance Latency Open Source Metrics 211

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Alex Podelko

AUGUST 18, 2019

But I believe all that functionality that can be found in Gremlin and multiple simpler open source products should be in every performance testing tool (at least those that pretend to some universality). The point is not to test system to its limits, the point is to see if any change in performance is happening.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

This post presents a categorized list of many command-line apps I’ve personally discovered over the past few years. Mosh is a remote terminal app (or mobile shell) for interactive SSH usage that includes several useful features for those who need to do terminal-based tasks over weak WiFi, cellular networks, or other less-reliable connections.

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Development Google Storage Open Source 134

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2021

Although Kubernetes simplifies application development while increasing resource utilization, it is a complex system that presents its own challenges. What challenges does it present, and how can you overcome them? Who manages the networking aspects? But what is Kubernetes exactly? Where does it come from? What is Kubernetes?

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Virtualization DevOps Infrastructure Cloud 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 ‍Terraform, on the other hand, presents a stark contrast.

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Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

Percona

APRIL 3, 2023

MongoDB stores data in BSON format both internally and over the network. bson) ) for file in "${bson_files[@]}"; do bsondump $file --outFile=$file.json done The script lists all the BSON files in the present directory and saves the result in an array, then loops through the array and converts every BSON file to JSON files.

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Database Programming Open Source Network 99

Percona

AUGUST 1, 2023

If you are using the open-source Percona Distribution for MongoDB , you also have extra features such as LDAP authentication support, which is present in the Enterprise and Atlas MongoDB versions. However, it is available in other open-source versions of MongoDB, such as Percona Server for MongoDB.

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Best Practices Transportation Open Source Traffic 41

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book.

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Let’s take a look at how to get the benefits you need while spending less, based on the recommendations presented by Dani Guzmán Burgos, our Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Tech Lead, on this webinar (now available on demand) hosted in November last year. Over-provisioned instances may lead to unnecessary infrastructure costs.

Cloud 119

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 119

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. Terraform, on the other hand, presents a stark contrast.

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Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Compression achieved is relevant because the higher the compression, the smaller the file size, and the lower the data required to transfer the image on the network. The AV1 image file format (AVIF) is an open-source image format for storing still and animated images. Jump to table of contents ?. AVIF Images In The Browser.

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Open Source Speed Website Google 144

All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

They would love to migrate to an open-source style database like MySQL or PostgresSQL if only such a database could meet the enterprise-grade reliability and performance these high-scale applications required. We believe the central constraint in high throughput data processing has moved from compute and storage to the network.

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Database Design Cloud Storage 117

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

What I learned at GlueCon 2023 — Tipping Points and Generative AI The final slide of my GlueCon keynote featuring a sunset over a pool in Maui — picture by Adrian I’ve presented at GlueCon many times over the last decade or so. You need to be able to innovate fast enough to pivot or reinvent your business model and leverage the change.

Social Media 98

Social Media Innovation Open Source Entertainment 98

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.

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Systems Cache Website Network 63