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Surveying the Tides of Cloud-Native and Open Source Observability
DZone
MARCH 11, 2021
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k6 Review: Open Source Load Testing Tool for Developers
Abstracta
JANUARY 23, 2021
Yes, yet another open source performance testing tool is making waves. The post k6 Review: Open Source Load Testing Tool for Developers appeared first on Abstracta Software Testing Services. Performance Testing Tools Load Testing Open Source
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Open-Sourcing Metaflow, a Human-Centric Framework for Data Science
The Netflix TechBlog
DECEMBER 3, 2019
by David Berg , Ravi Kiran Chirravuri , Romain Cledat , Savin Goyal , Ferras Hamad , Ville Tuulos tl;dr Metaflow is now open-source! For the open-source release, we partnered with AWS to provide a seamless integration between Metaflow and various AWS services.
Performance Testing with Open Source Tools – Myths and Reality
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. My point is that we were always going to use one of the open source solutions as a basis for our tool. Did you consider other open source tools?
SVT-AV1: an open-source AV1 encoder and decoder
The Netflix TechBlog
MARCH 13, 2020
SVT-AV1: open-source AV1 encoder and decoder by Andrey Norkin , Joel Sole , Mariana Afonso , Kyle Swanson, Agata Opalach , Anush Moorthy , Anne Aaron SVT-AV1 is an open-source AV1 codec implementation hosted on GitHub [link] under a BSD + patent license.
Monitoring-as-code through Dynatrace’s Open-Source Initiative
Dynatrace
JANUARY 13, 2021
Defining what to monitor and what to be alerted on must be as easy for developers as checking in a monitoring configuration file into version control along with the applications source code. Dynatrace news.
Open Sourcing the Netflix Domain Graph Service Framework: GraphQL for Spring Boot
The Netflix TechBlog
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
By Paul Bakker and Kavitha Srinivasan , Images by David Simmer , Edited by Greg Burrell Netflix has developed a Domain Graph Service (DGS) framework and it is now open source. The DGS framework is built on standard open-source Spring Boot.
Open-Sourcing Metaflow, a Human-Centric Framework for Data Science
The Netflix TechBlog
DECEMBER 3, 2019
by David Berg , Ravi Kiran Chirravuri , Romain Cledat , Savin Goyal , Ferras Hamad , Ville Tuulos tl;dr Metaflow is now open-source! For the open-source release, we partnered with AWS to provide a seamless integration between Metaflow and various AWS services.
2019 Open Source Database Report: Top Databases, Public Cloud vs. On-Premise, Polyglot Persistence
High Scalability
JUNE 27, 2019
Ready to transition from a commercial database to open source, and want to know which databases are most popular in 2019? Wondering whether an on-premise vs. public cloud vs. hybrid cloud infrastructure is best for your database strategy? Or, considering adding a new database to your application and want to see which combinations are most popular?
Open-Sourcing riskquant, a library for quantifying risk
The Netflix TechBlog
MARCH 5, 2020
Netflix has a program in our Information Security department for quantifying the risk of deliberate (attacker-driven) and accidental… Continue reading on Netflix TechBlog ». security risk information-security
Open-sourcing Polynote: an IDE-inspired polyglot notebook
The Netflix TechBlog
OCTOBER 23, 2019
Jeremy Smith , Jonathan Indig , Faisal Siddiqi We are pleased to announce the open-source launch of Polynote : a new, polyglot notebook with first-class Scala support, Apache Spark integration, multi-language interoperability including Scala, Python, and SQL, as-you-type autocomplete, and more. At Netflix, we have always felt strongly about sharing with the open source community, and believe that Polynote has a great potential to address similar needs outside of Netflix.
Open Source Database HA Resources from Severalnines
High Scalability
JUNE 8, 2018
Severalnines has spent the last several years writing blogs and crafting content to help make your open source database solutions highly available. We are fans of highscalability.com and wanted to post some links to our top resources to help readers learn more how to make MySQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, Percona and PostgreSQL databases scalable. Top HA Resources for MySQL & MariaDB. Clustering MongoDB clustercontrol mysql postgresql severalnines
Introducing SVT-AV1: a scalable open-source AV1 framework
The Netflix TechBlog
APRIL 17, 2019
Scalable Video Technology (SVT) is Intel’s open source framework that provides high-performance software video encoding libraries for developers of visual cloud technologies. A group of companies formed the Alliance for Open Media (AOM) with the goal of creating a modern, royalty-free video codec that would be widely adopted and supported by a plethora of devices. There exists at least one other alternative open-source AV1 encoder, rav1e.
Open Source at AWS re:Invent
Adrian Cockcroft
NOVEMBER 18, 2019
We’re excited to let you know that we have an Open Source track at re:Invent this year! OPN220 Build robotic cloud simulations with ROS and AWS RoboMaker Join Camilo Buscaron, AWS Principal Open Source Technologist, and Katherine Scott, Developer Advocate, Open Robotics in this workshop to use Gazebo, a 3D simulator, and Robot Operating System (ROS) on AWS RoboMaker and learn how to spin up robotic simulations. aws open-source cloud-computing reinvent
Open Source at AWS re:Invent
Adrian Cockcroft
NOVEMBER 18, 2019
We’re excited to let you know that we have an Open Source track at re:Invent this year! OPN220 Build robotic cloud simulations with ROS and AWS RoboMaker Join Camilo Buscaron, AWS Principal Open Source Technologist, and Katherine Scott, Developer Advocate, Open Robotics in this workshop to use Gazebo, a 3D simulator, and Robot Operating System (ROS) on AWS RoboMaker and learn how to spin up robotic simulations. aws open-source cloud-computing reinvent
11 top open-source test automation frameworks: How to choose
TechBeacon Testing
DECEMBER 3, 2019
In most cases, you'd do better to consider one or more of the open-source options available. If you're thinking about building your own test automation framework, think again. App Dev & Testing, Testing, Test Automation
Open Sourcing Peloton, Uber’s Unified Resource Scheduler
Uber Engineering
MARCH 8, 2019
… The post Open Sourcing Peloton, Uber’s Unified Resource Scheduler appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog. Architecture Open Source Active-Active Architecture Compute Compute Cluster Compute Platform Kubernetes Mesos OSS Peloton Resource Scheduling scalability Uber Engineering Uber Open Source
Open-sourcing Polynote: an IDE-inspired polyglot notebook
The Netflix TechBlog
OCTOBER 23, 2019
Jeremy Smith , Jonathan Indig , Faisal Siddiqi We are pleased to announce the open-source launch of Polynote : a new, polyglot notebook with first-class Scala support, Apache Spark integration, multi-language interoperability including Scala, Python, and SQL, as-you-type autocomplete, and more. At Netflix, we have always felt strongly about sharing with the open source community, and believe that Polynote has a great potential to address similar needs outside of Netflix.
Open Sourcing Mantis: A Platform For Building Cost-Effective, Realtime, Operations-Focused…
The Netflix TechBlog
OCTOBER 21, 2019
Open Sourcing Mantis: A Platform For Building Cost-Effective, Realtime, Operations-Focused Applications By Jeff Chao on behalf of the Mantis team Today we’re excited to announce that we’re open sourcing Mantis , a platform that helps Netflix engineers better understand the behavior of their applications to ensure the highest quality experience for our members.
Open-sourcing Polynote: an IDE-inspired polyglot notebook
The Netflix TechBlog
OCTOBER 23, 2019
Jeremy Smith , Jonathan Indig , Faisal Siddiqi We are pleased to announce the open-source launch of Polynote : a new, polyglot notebook with first-class Scala support, Apache Spark integration, multi-language interoperability including Scala, Python, and SQL, as-you-type autocomplete, and more. At Netflix, we have always felt strongly about sharing with the open source community, and believe that Polynote has a great potential to address similar needs outside of Netflix.
Web performance testing: 18 free open-source tools to consider
TechBeacon Testing
MARCH 12, 2020
The failure of a mission-critical web application can be costly. App Dev & Testing, Testing, Performance Testing, Web Performance
2019 Open Source Database Report: Top Databases, Public Cloud vs. On-Premise, Polyglot Persistence
Scalegrid
JUNE 11, 2019
Ready to transition from a commercial database to open source, and want to know which databases are most popular in 2019? We found all the answers you need at the Percona Live event last month, and broke down the insights into the following free trends reports: Top Databases Used : Open Source vs. Commercial. We broke down the data by open source databases vs. commercial databases: Open Source Databases. Top Open Source Databases.
Introducing AthenaX, Uber Engineering’s Open Source Streaming Analytics Platform
Uber Engineering
OCTOBER 9, 2017
Uber facilitates seamless and more enjoyable user experiences by channeling data from a variety of real-time sources. These insights range from in-the-moment traffic conditions that provide guidance on trip routes to the Estimated Time of Delivery (ETD) of an UberEATS … The post Introducing AthenaX, Uber Engineering’s Open Source Streaming Analytics Platform appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.
Open Sourcing Mantis: A Platform For Building Cost-Effective, Realtime, Operations-Focused…
The Netflix TechBlog
OCTOBER 21, 2019
Open Sourcing Mantis: A Platform For Building Cost-Effective, Realtime, Operations-Focused Applications By Cody Rioux, Daniel Jacobson, Jeff Chao, Neeraj Joshi, Nick Mahilani, Piyush Goyal, Prashanth Ramdas, Zhenzhong Xu Today we’re excited to announce that we’re open sourcing Mantis , a platform that helps Netflix engineers better understand the behavior of their applications to ensure the highest quality experience for our members.
Open Sourcing Mantis: A Platform For Building Cost-Effective, Realtime, Operations-Focused…
The Netflix TechBlog
OCTOBER 21, 2019
Open Sourcing Mantis: A Platform For Building Cost-Effective, Realtime, Operations-Focused Applications By Cody Rioux, Daniel Jacobson, Jeff Chao, Neeraj Joshi, Nick Mahilani, Piyush Goyal, Prashanth Ramdas, Zhenzhong Xu Today we’re excited to announce that we’re open sourcing Mantis , a platform that helps Netflix engineers better understand the behavior of their applications to ensure the highest quality experience for our members.
M3: Uber’s Open Source, Large-scale Metrics Platform for Prometheus
Uber Engineering
AUGUST 7, 2018
As part of our robust and scalable metrics infrastructure, we built … The post M3: Uber’s Open Source, Large-scale Metrics Platform for Prometheus appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog. Architecture Open Source Grafana Infrastructure M3 M3 Coordinator M3DB Metrics Platform OSS Prometheus Uber Infrastructure
JVM Profiler: An Open Source Tool for Tracing Distributed JVM Applications at Scale
Uber Engineering
JUNE 28, 2018
To help us better leverage this data, we manage massive deployments of Spark … The post JVM Profiler: An Open Source Tool for Tracing Distributed JVM Applications at Scale appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog. Architecture Open Source JVM Profiler ProfilerComputing frameworks like Apache Spark have been widely adopted to build large-scale data applications. For Uber, data is at the heart of strategic decision-making and product development.
11 top open-source API testing tools: What your team needs to know
TechBeacon Testing
JANUARY 7, 2020
How do you find the right open-source API testing tool for your needs? Since my last roundup of the best candidates, a few more tools have appeared that warrant consideration—and there's a new technique that's all the buzz in AI automation circles that you need to know about.
An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems
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. The most prominent source of misses, especially in the kernel, was Thrift.
Shift-Left Testing in the Enterprise and the Case for Open Source
Abstracta
NOVEMBER 19, 2017
Why continuous testing and open source are a perfect match I recently visited the offices of CA Technologies (one of Abstracta’s partners) in Santa Clara, where I had the chance to discuss shift-left testing, continuous testing, and why and how to turn to open source. The post Shift-Left Testing in the Enterprise and the Case for Open Source appeared first on Abstracta Software Testing Services.
10 open-source Kubernetes tools for highly effective SRE and Ops Teams
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. Telepresence is an open source tool that lets you debug a service locally while keeping the connection with its dependency services hosted in a remote Kubernetes cluster and remote cloud resources like a database.
What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database
Scalegrid
MAY 13, 2020
Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. High performance, query optimization, open source and polymorphic data storage are the major Greenplum advantages.
Which Is the Best PostgreSQL GUI? 2019 Comparison
Scalegrid
SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
PostgreSQL graphical user interface (GUI) tools help these open source database users to manage, manipulate, and visualize their data. It supports all PostgreSQL operations and features while being free and open-source. pgAdmin Cost: Free (open source). It has a free and open-source as well an enterprise edition. Navicat is capable of synchronizing different data sources and schemas. OmniDB Cost: Free (open source).
2019 PostgreSQL Trends Report: Private vs. Public Cloud, Migrations, Database Combinations & Top Reasons Used
High Scalability
APRIL 3, 2019
PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines. So what makes PostgreSQL so special, and how is it being used today?
Packaging award-winning shows with award-winning technology
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. netflix streaming open-source award-winning file-format
TiDB Dashboard: Easier Troubleshooting for Distributed Databases
DZone
JUNE 11, 2020
TiDB is an open-source, distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. open source database performance cloud-native database administration htap
Introduction to Benchmarking in Julia
DZone
MARCH 6, 2020
open source benchmarking juliaFor the number of years I’ve been programming using Julia, I’ve never really been concerned with performance.
Announcing enterprise-grade observability at scale for OpenTelemetry custom metrics (Part 2)
Dynatrace
NOVEMBER 27, 2020
Our metric exporters allow for ingestion of OpenTelemetry-instrumented custom metrics into the Dynatrace open analytics and AI platform, giving you precise and actionable analytics across the entire software life cycle. Collect usage statistics by pre-instrumenting an open-source framework. “We
Managing High Availability in PostgreSQL – Part III: Patroni
Scalegrid
AUGUST 22, 2019
It is an open-source tool suite, written in Python, for managing high availability of PostgreSQL clusters. Requires multiple ports to be open for components communication: REST API port for Patroni. In our previous blog posts, we discussed the capabilities and functioning of PostgreSQL Automatic Failover (PAF) by Cluster Labs and Replication Manager (repmgr) by 2ndQuadrant.
How to Kill Processes in Unix/Linux
DZone
JANUARY 12, 2021
java open source devops command line operating systems linux operating system linux tools/utilities system admin unix operating system unix osThere are different options to terminate a process in Unix/Linux flavor of operating systems. This article intends to list and provide examples of each option. You can use the kill command to terminate a process by passing the process id. PID is the process ID of the process that you want to terminate.
Toward a Better Quality Metric for the Video Community
The Netflix TechBlog
DECEMBER 7, 2020
VMAF is a video quality metric that Netflix jointly developed with a number of university collaborators and open-sourced on Github. Since its open-sourcing, we have started seeing VMAF being applied in a wider scope within the open-source community.
ScyllaDB Trends – How Users Deploy The Real-Time Big Data Database
Scalegrid
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
ScyllaDB is an open-source distributed NoSQL data store, reimplemented from the popular Apache Cassandra database. You can run both the free open source ScyllaDB and ScyllaDB Enterprise in the cloud or on-premise, and ScyllaDB Enterprise license starts at $28.8k/year for a total of 48 cores. This number is more inline with our recent 2019 Open Source Database Trends Report where 56.9%
Predictable Pitfalls of Scaling VoIP to Cluster
DZone
JANUARY 15, 2020
This is not to say, however, that any mid-level developer will have much difficulty finding and handling one of many available open-source servers. Avoid these pitfalls of scaling VoIP to cluster. VoIP technologies have a reputation for being rather complex and not without good reason.
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