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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

We’re equally convinced on both counts, but in this blog article, we’re focusing on why MongoDB is not open source. Let’s start with this: MongoDB is accurately referred to as source-available software. To be clear, we are rock-solid in our stance that MongoDB is not open source.

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What is a message queue? How an observability platform eases message queue monitoring

Dynatrace

As a result of persistent queues, a system benefits from improved performance, reliability, and scalability. There are several message queuing software options available for use today, including the following: Apache Kafka is an open source, distributed platform optimized for streaming information. Watch webinar now!

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What is a message queue? How an observability platform eases message queue monitoring

Dynatrace

As a result of persistent queues, a system benefits from improved performance, reliability, and scalability. There are several message queuing software options available for use today, including the following: Apache Kafka is an open source, distributed platform optimized for streaming information.

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Open Source vs. Proprietary Database Software: What To Choose?

Percona

We are a company of open source proponents. We’re also dedicated and active participants in the global open source community. Both open source and proprietary options have advantages. With open source database software , anyone in the general public can access the source code, read it, and modify it.

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Tasktop Viz Launched, Conquering the Cost of Delay 

Tasktop

As with my favorite open source products and contributions, I made the Flow Framework free for both community and commercial use (CC BY-ND). And this brings us to a much more dire cost of delay: The cost of not having reliable, scalable and end-to-end Flow Metrics for neither your product value streams nor your entire transformation.

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Kubernetes vs Docker: What’s the difference?

Dynatrace

This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. Docker Engine is built on top containerd , the leading open-source container runtime, a project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (DNCF). Watch webinar now! What is Docker?

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10 tips for migrating from monolith to microservices

Dynatrace

Because they’re separate, they allow for faster release cycles, greater scalability, and the flexibility to test new methodologies and technologies. Many organizations also find it useful to use an open source observability tool, such as OpenTelemetry. An observability platform approach makes it easy to combine both methods.