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Optimizing Server Management With HAProxy’s Advanced Health Checks

DZone

This open-source software, lauded for its reliability and high performance, is a vital tool in the arsenal of network administrators, adept at managing web traffic across diverse server environments. When traffic to a website or application increases, HAProxy can seamlessly bring more servers online to handle the load.

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Powering the Web: Two Decades of Open Source Publishing With WordPress and MySQL

Percona

While not the first open source content management system (CMS), WordPress caught on like nothing before and helped spread open source to millions. It was simple, easy to deploy, and easy to use, and WordPress had the added benefit of being open source. MySQL was founded in 1995 and went open source in 2000.

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Monitoring Web Servers Should Never Be Complex

DZone

If you run several web servers in your organization or even public web servers on the internet, you need some kind of monitoring. If your servers go down for some reason, this may not be funny for your colleagues, customer, and even for yourself. Introduction. For that reason, we use monitoring tools.

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From Proprietary to Open Source: The Complete Guide to Database Migration

Percona

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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Kubernetes vs Docker: What’s the difference?

Dynatrace

A standard Docker container can run anywhere, on a personal computer (for example, PC, Mac, Linux), in the cloud, on local servers, and even on edge devices. This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. What is Docker? What is Kubernetes?

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Implementing HTTP Load Balancer Using HAProxy on AWS

DZone

HAProxy (High Availability Proxy) is an open source, fast, and reliable solution that provides load balancer and reverse proxy features for TCP- and HTTP-based applications. HAProxy load balancer handles heavy load traffic and reroutes requests seamlessly across multiple servers.

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Our Kudos to All Percona Community Contributors

Percona

Percona stands for open source and keeps open source open for everyone. Open source software is impossible without the efforts of the community. Jo Lyshoel resolved the issue when some traffic was leaving the ServiceMash in Percona Operator for MongoDB. Looking forward to seeing you there!