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Database Migration Plan: Avoiding Common Pitfalls in Open Source Migration

Percona

Many organizations are turning to open source solutions to streamline their operations and reduce costs. Open source migration can be a game-changer, offering flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. Below, we’ll explore the common pitfalls of open source migration and provide insights on how to avoid them.

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You Need to Actively Support Open Source Software or It Will Disappear

Percona

Percona is dedicated to open source software. But recently, open source software has come under attack. Once open source software is being locked away by changing licenses and code that you depended on. Before open source was available, there was little to no interoperability between computer systems.

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Performance Testing with Open Source Tools – Myths and Reality

Alex Podelko

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.

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The Future of Open Source is Polarized

Percona

Last week, yet another company — HashiCorp — announced they are changing the license for the majority of their software from an Open Source License (Mozilla Public License 2.0) to a Business Source License ( BSL ). Commercial open source is going to continue being less open source.

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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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Monitoring-as-code through Dynatrace’s Open-Source Initiative

Dynatrace

Dynatrace monitoring-as-code allows us to do just that – and what started around one year ago in a ‘Minimal Viable Product’ approach to cover our internal needs, is now available to all our customers as Open Source on GitHub. The post Monitoring-as-code through Dynatrace’s Open-Source Initiative appeared first on Dynatrace blog.

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Reasons to Choose an Open-Source Test Automation Tool

Testsigma

Open-source software development has grown increasingly popular over the last two decades. Popular OS like Linux and Android; Browsers like Firefox and Chrome; Programming languages like Python and JavaScript; Automation tools like Selenium and Appium; are all Open-Source. Startups are generally budget-challenged.