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Bring syslog into Dynatrace using OpenTelemetry to get open source value with enterprise support

Dynatrace

MARCH 15, 2024

Compliance, retention, archiving, or data governance regulations often require multicasting logs from the original source to multiple destinations, like an observability platform with long-term log storage. We also provide security updates and patches to critical vulnerabilities that may arise in the components.

Open Source

Open Source Infrastructure Network Government

Escrow Buddy: An open-source tool from Netflix for remediation of missing FileVault keys in MDM

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 12, 2023

Netflix has open-sourced Escrow Buddy, which helps Security and IT teams ensure they have valid FileVault recovery keys for all their Macs in MDM. The agent also enables rotation of recovery keys after use, local storage and validation of recovery keys, and other features.

Open Source

Open Source Database Servers Storage

What is? OpenTelemetry??An open-source standard for logs, metrics, and traces

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2021

These are just a few of the open-source technologies you may encounter as you research observability solutions for managing complex multicloud IT environments and the services that run on them. Of these open-source observability tools, one stands out. Then, Google made the OpenCensus project open source in 2018.

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Open Source Metrics Cloud Transportation

Cutting Big Data Costs: Effective Data Processing With Apache Spark

DZone

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Apache Spark , a robust open-source data processing framework, has emerged as a game-changer in this domain. Spark takes full advantage of this storage property by exclusively reading the columns that are involved in subsequent computations.

Big Data

Big Data Processing Games Open Source

Apache Kafka + Apache Flink = Match Made in Heaven

DZone

MAY 5, 2023

This blog post explores the benefits of combining both open-source frameworks, shows unique differentiators of Flink versus Kafka, and discusses when to use a Kafka-native streaming engine like Kafka Streams instead of Flink.

Open Source

Open Source Storage Innovation Engineering

Speed Trino Queries With These Performance-Tuning Tips

DZone

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

An open-source distributed SQL query engine, Trino is widely used for data analytics on distributed data storage. Optimizing Trino to make it faster can help organizations achieve quicker insights and better user experiences, as well as cut costs and improve infrastructure efficiency and scalability. But how do we do that?

Tuning

Tuning Speed Performance Open Source

Percona Live Presents: An Open-Source, Cloud Native Database

Percona Community

MAY 14, 2019

During our presentation at Percona Live 2019 Intel and its software partners will introduce the audience to the work we’re doing to enable an open-source framework, we call Cloud Native Database. We will discuss Rockset’s RocksDB-Cloud library and how it works with Facebook’s MyRocks storage engine.

Open Source

Open Source Database Cloud Storage

Introduction to KVM, SR-IOV, and Exploring the Advantages of SR-IOV in KVM Environments

DZone

MARCH 20, 2024

Embedded within the Linux kernel, KVM empowers the creation of VMs with their virtualized hardware components, such as CPUs, memory, storage, and network cards, essentially mimicking a machine. Security remains paramount for KVM due to testing and security updates from the open-source community.

Virtualization

Virtualization Hardware Open Source Storage

Kubernetes in the wild report 2023

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

Open-source software drives a vibrant Kubernetes ecosystem. Open source software drives a vibrant Kubernetes ecosystem. Across all categories in the Kubernetes survey, open source projects rank among the most frequently used solutions. Dynatrace’s investment in open source technologies keeps growing.

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Open Source Java Operating System Programming

OpenShift vs. Kubernetes: Understanding the differences

Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

Kubernetes is an open source container orchestration platform that enables organizations to automatically scale, manage, and deploy containerized applications in distributed environments. Like Kubernetes, OpenShift is an open source Kubernetes-based container platform. What is Kubernetes? What is OpenShift? Ease of use.

Open Source

Open Source Social Media Infrastructure Operating System

Configuring OpenTelemetry Agents to Enrich Data and Reduce Observability Costs

DZone

JANUARY 16, 2023

BindPlane OP is a powerful open-source tool that makes it easy to build and manage telemetry pipelines to ship data from IT environments of any kind and size to any analysis tool or storage destination.

Open Source

Open Source Storage Processing

Geek Reading - Week of June 5, 2013

DZone

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Why haven’t cash-strapped American schools embraced open source? Email Reveals Google App Engine Search API About Ready For Preview Release, Charges Planned For Storage, Operations ( TechCrunch). Pandora launches new HTML5 site for TVs and gaming consoles, available now on PS3 and Xbox 360 ( The Next Web). Hacker News).

Java

Java Best Practices Google Analytics

All of Netflix’s HDR video streaming is now dynamically optimized

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In spite of reaching higher qualities than the fixed ladder, the HDR-DO ladder, on average, occupies only 58% of the storage space compared to fixed-bitrate ladder. Yes, we are committed to supporting the open-source community. This is achieved by more efficiently spacing the ladder points, especially in the high-bitrate region.

Open Source

Open Source Software Engineering Internet Internet

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Pallavi Phadnis

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

I developed many batch and real-time data pipelines using open source technologies for AOL Advertising and eBay. Over the years, I followed the big data open-source community and Netflix tech blogs closely, and learned a lot about Netflix’s innovative engineering solutions and active contributions to the open-source ecosystem.

Data Engineering

Data Engineering Engineering Big Data Software Engineering

Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Troubleshooting a session in Edgar When we started building Edgar four years ago, there were very few open-source distributed tracing systems that satisfied our needs. Our tactical approach was to use Netflix-specific libraries for collecting traces from Java-based streaming services until open source tracer libraries matured.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source

Dynatrace extends contextual analytics and AIOps for open observability

Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2021

The complexity of such deployments has accelerated with the adoption of emerging, open-source technologies that generate telemetry data, which is exploding in terms of volume, speed, and cardinality. Extend your topology mapping to include open-source observability data.

Analytics

Analytics Open Source Serverless Architecture

Monitoring Self-Destructing Apps Using Prometheus

DZone

JANUARY 8, 2020

Prometheus is an open-source system monitoring and alerting toolkit. Data related to monitoring is stored in RAM and LevelDB nevertheless data can be stored to other storage systems such as ElasticSearch, InfluxDb, and others, [link]. Watch out for your self-destructing apps!

Monitoring

Monitoring Open Source Storage Systems

ScaleGrid DigitalOcean Support for MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis™ Now Available

Scalegrid

JUNE 9, 2020

MySQL and PostgreSQL are the top two open source relational databases in the world, and Redis is the top key-value database. The open source model is not only popular with the developer market, but also enterprise companies looking to modernize their infrastructure and reduce spend.

Availability

Availability Open Source Benchmarking Database

Using A Raspberry Pi For Distributed Object Storage With Minio

The Polyglot Developer

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

So I was researching object storage and I came across the open source distributed object storage software, Minio. After all they are both object storage solutions. Object storage is great for data backups so it gave me the idea to turn my Raspberry Pi into an object storage backup solution.

Storage

Storage Hardware Open Source Architecture

What is container orchestration?

Dynatrace

MARCH 24, 2023

Problems include provisioning and deployment; load balancing; securing interactions between containers; configuration and allocation of resources such as networking and storage; and deprovisioning containers that are no longer needed. Originally created by Google, Kubernetes was donated to the CNCF as an open source project.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure Open Source Operating System Cloud

Best practices for Fluent Bit 3.0

Dynatrace

MAY 7, 2024

New processors: Introducing new processors, including Metric Selector and Content Modifier, for selective data processing and metadata adjustment, improving data relevance and storage efficiency. By default, you have a storage type memory, but you may exceed this buffer limit if you have a lot of data.

Best Practices

Best Practices IoT Metrics Storage

Introducing Percona Builds for Serverless PostgreSQL

Percona

MARCH 7, 2023

One approach is to separate compute and storage to allow for independent scaling. It’s an open source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres that utilizes a serverless architecture. It’s an open source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres that utilizes a serverless architecture. So, what is Neon?

Serverless

Serverless Storage Open Source Architecture

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

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

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.

Open Source

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy

Making it Easier to Manage a Production PostgreSQL Database

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

There are many things I love about it – PL/ PG SQL, smart defaults, replication (that actually works out of the box), and an active and vibrant open source community. Hopefully we can generate enough interest in the open source community to prioritize these features.

Database

Database Open Source Storage Servers

Debugging MySQL Core File in Visual Studio Code

Percona

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Could not load source './obj/sql/./storage/innobase/./././mysql-8.0.34/storage/innobase/row/row0sel.cc': storage/innobase/./././mysql-8.0.34/storage/innobase/row/row0sel.cc': storage/innobase/row/row0sel.cc': 'SourceRequest' not supported. This is because we have not yet mapped the compile-time path to the source code path.

Code

Code C++ Storage Programming

Monitor your technology stack with Dynatrace and Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit for services and applications that run in containers. Prometheus components include client libraries for application code instrumentation, special-purpose exporters for popular services, and the optional Prometheus server for orchestrating service discovery and data storage.

Technology

Technology Technology Monitoring AWS

File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from ten years of Ceph evolution

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from 10 years of Ceph evolution Aghayev et al., In this case, the assumption that a distributed storage backend should clearly be layered on top of a local file system. What is a distributed storage backend? SOSP’19. This is not surprising in hindsight.

Storage

Storage Systems Hardware Efficiency

Overseeing SaaS security with AWS AppFabric and Dynatrace

Dynatrace

MARCH 27, 2024

AWS AppFabric ingests and normalizes audit logs from SaaS applications and delivers them to an Amazon Simple storage service (Amazon S3) bucket in an organization’s AWS account. Leckenby, senior director worldwide alliance sales at Dynatrace.

AWS

AWS Analytics Government Monitoring

Cloud Native Predictions for 2024

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

We want adopters of our technology to be able to deploy their critical open source databases and applications across any public or private cloud environment. The newly formed Open Source AI Alliance , led by META and IBM, promises to support open-source AI. You mentioned ‘More Simple Kubernetes’?

Cloud

Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices

How to Optimize Elasticsearch for Better Search Performance

DZone

JULY 29, 2019

One of the top trending open-source data storage that responds to most of the use cases is Elasticsearch. Elasticsearch is a distributed data storage and search engine with fault-tolerance and high availability capabilities. To make the best use of its search feature, Elasticsearch needs to be configured properly.

Big Data

Big Data Government Open Source Storage

How Bloom Filters Work in MyRocks

Percona

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

LSM storage engines like MyRocks are very different from the more common B-Tree-based storage engines like InnoDB. Bloom filter is an important feature improving performance of LSM storage engines. A good understanding of how bloom filters work can only lead to improved database performance.

Storage

Storage Tuning Cache Engineering

OTel contributor Q&A: Dynatrace works to ensure enterprise readiness for OpenTelemetry

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

With these release candidate APIs available, instrumentation for web frameworks, storage clients, and much more can be built. We at Dynatrace understand the importance of contributing our expertise in enterprise-grade intelligent observability to the open source community. Dynatrace fully embraces OpenTelemetry.

Open Source

Open Source Software Engineering Government Java

Build An Image Manager With NativeScript, Node.js, And The Minio Object Storage Cloud

The Polyglot Developer

APRIL 6, 2017

When building a mobile application, there are often scenarios where you need to storage files remotely and when I say files, I don’t mean database data. For example, maybe you want to develop an image manager or photo storage solution like what Facebook and Instagram offer?

Storage

Storage Cloud Open Source Mobile

Observability engineering: Getting Prometheus metrics right for Kubernetes with Dynatrace and Kepler

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Another source reported a 43% overall increase in Prometheus adoption for the last six months of 2021. As the two first graduates of the open source project incubator, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), Kubernetes and Prometheus are usually deployed together. What is Prometheus?

Metrics

Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning

Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 16.1, Percona Distribution for MySQL 8.1.0: Release Roundup December 4, 2023

Percona

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Percona Distribution for MySQL (PS- based variant) 8.1.0 was released.

Open Source

Open Source Azure Servers Programming

Three smart log ingestion strategies in Dynatrace (without OneAgent)

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Fluentd is an open source data collector that decouples data sources from observability tools and platforms by providing a unified logging layer. Set up the configuration on the same port as specified for source data, in this example 5140. What is Fluentd? What is Fluent Bit? Just pick the built-in Fluent Bit image.

Strategy

Strategy AWS Open Source Transportation

Comprehensive Insights Into SDI in MySQL 8.0

Percona

OCTOBER 13, 2023

MySQL writes a.sdi file to accommodate the serialized dictionary information for storage engines that lack support for this functionality. Storage engine compatibility Different MySQL storage engines handle.sdi files in various ways. Storage engine compatibility Different MySQL storage engines handle.sdi files in various ways.

Storage

Storage Database Engineering Open Source

Percona XtraBackup Now Supports IAM Instance Profile

Percona

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Xbcloud is a tool part of Percona XtraBackup and allows you to upload and download backups to Amazon S3 storage. Percona XtraBackup is a free, open source, complete online backup solution for all versions of Percona Server for MySQL and MySQL.

Storage

Storage Open Source AWS Servers

What Is PostgreSQL Used For?

Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

PostgreSQL is open source relational database management software. It has evolved steadily, however, during 25 years as an open source project. Another reason for PostgreSQL popularity (perhaps the biggest): It’s open source and free to use, distribute, and modify. What is PostgreSQL used for?

Open Source

Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database

Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0.32-24, Updated Percona Backup for MongoDB: Release Roundup April 24, 2023

Percona

APRIL 24, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. You know what time it is… it’s time for the release roundup!

Open Source

Open Source Storage Servers Database

MariaDB vs MySQL: Key Differences and Use Cases

Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

MariaDB is a popular SQL open source relational database management system that originated as a fork of MySQL after MySQL was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008 and later Oracle in 2010. It continues to be developed and maintained by the open source community and remains free to use under the GNU General Public License.

Open Source

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability

Introducing the MySQL Audit Log Filter Plugin

Percona

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Compress the audit log files to reduce the storage space occupied with log files. Encrypt the audit log files by using AES-256 encryption. Dynamically enable or disable the auditing. A server restart is not required to add or adjust existing filtering rules. Try Percona Distribution for MySQL today!

Open Source

Open Source Database Servers Storage

Announcing the General Availability of Percona Operator for PostgreSQL Version 2

Percona

JUNE 30, 2023

Percona, a leading provider of open-source database software and services, announced the general availability of Percona Operator for PostgreSQL version 2. The solution is 100% open source and automates the deployment and management of PostgreSQL clusters on Kubernetes. In version 1.x,

Availability

Availability Open Source Azure Hardware

Bring syslog into Dynatrace using OpenTelemetry to get open source value with enterprise support

Escrow Buddy: An open-source tool from Netflix for remediation of missing FileVault keys in MDM

Trending Sources

What is? OpenTelemetry??An open-source standard for logs, metrics, and traces

Cutting Big Data Costs: Effective Data Processing With Apache Spark

Apache Kafka + Apache Flink = Match Made in Heaven

Speed Trino Queries With These Performance-Tuning Tips

Percona Live Presents: An Open-Source, Cloud Native Database

Introduction to KVM, SR-IOV, and Exploring the Advantages of SR-IOV in KVM Environments

Kubernetes in the wild report 2023

OpenShift vs. Kubernetes: Understanding the differences

Configuring OpenTelemetry Agents to Enrich Data and Reduce Observability Costs

Geek Reading - Week of June 5, 2013

All of Netflix’s HDR video streaming is now dynamically optimized

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Pallavi Phadnis

Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

Top 3 Questions From Percona k8s Squad Ask-Me-Anything Session

Dynatrace extends contextual analytics and AIOps for open observability

Monitoring Self-Destructing Apps Using Prometheus

ScaleGrid DigitalOcean Support for MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis™ Now Available

Using A Raspberry Pi For Distributed Object Storage With Minio

What is container orchestration?

Best practices for Fluent Bit 3.0

Introducing Percona Builds for Serverless PostgreSQL

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

Making it Easier to Manage a Production PostgreSQL Database

Debugging MySQL Core File in Visual Studio Code

Monitor your technology stack with Dynatrace and Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus

File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from ten years of Ceph evolution

Overseeing SaaS security with AWS AppFabric and Dynatrace

Cloud Native Predictions for 2024

How to Optimize Elasticsearch for Better Search Performance

How Bloom Filters Work in MyRocks

OTel contributor Q&A: Dynatrace works to ensure enterprise readiness for OpenTelemetry

Build An Image Manager With NativeScript, Node.js, And The Minio Object Storage Cloud

Observability engineering: Getting Prometheus metrics right for Kubernetes with Dynatrace and Kepler

Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 16.1, Percona Distribution for MySQL 8.1.0: Release Roundup December 4, 2023

Three smart log ingestion strategies in Dynatrace (without OneAgent)

Comprehensive Insights Into SDI in MySQL 8.0

Percona XtraBackup Now Supports IAM Instance Profile

What Is PostgreSQL Used For?

Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0.32-24, Updated Percona Backup for MongoDB: Release Roundup April 24, 2023

MariaDB vs MySQL: Key Differences and Use Cases

Introducing the MySQL Audit Log Filter Plugin

Announcing the General Availability of Percona Operator for PostgreSQL Version 2

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