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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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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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Istio Explained: Unlocking the Power of Service Mesh in Microservices

DZone

Introduction to Istio Istio is an open-source service mesh that provides a uniform way to secure, connect, and monitor microservices.

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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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Demystifying Kuma Service Mesh

DZone

Under a heavy load, the application could break if the traffic routing, load balancing, etc., In this blog post, we will discuss the open-source service mesh Kuma, its architecture, and its easy-to-implement policies like traffic control, metrics, circuit breaking, etc. were not optimized.

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Introducing AthenaX, Uber Engineering’s Open Source Streaming Analytics Platform

Uber Engineering

Uber facilitates seamless and more enjoyable user experiences by channeling data from a variety of real-time sources.

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Monitoring Web Servers Should Never Be Complex

DZone

For example, you can monitor the behavior of your applications, the hardware usage of your server nodes, or even the network traffic between servers. One prominent solution is the open-source tool Nagios which allows you to monitor hardware in every detail.