Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

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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Dynatrace

MARCH 15, 2024

Syslog is the go-to protocol that delivers infrastructure administrators, network engineers, and security team logs that tell them all they need to know about their systems’ delivery, performance, availability, and security. The Dynatrace OTel Collector for syslog has numerous benefits.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 5, 2025

The newly introduced step-by-step guidance streamlines the process, while quick data flow validation accelerates the onboarding experience even for power users. Tagging is also available when using API-based ingestion methods or later within the platform. Different log ingestion methods are available to address various needs.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 15, 2024

As organizations strive for observability and data democratization, OpenTelemetry emerges as a key technology to create and transfer observability data. This collector, fully supported and maintained by Dynatrace, is entirely open source. A collector helps developers control their telemetry data streams for each signal.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2021

The addition of OpenTelemetry is especially helpful for organizations looking at embedding OpenTelemetry into their applications as their data will automatically enrich PurePath’s distributed trace data. For this, they created a form where they fill data such as business unit, application name, application URL, etc.

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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Structured Query Language (SQL) is a simple declarative programming language utilized by various technology and business professionals to extract and transform data. Visualization & Reporting: Can the tool generate reports or visual representations like ER diagrams, data charts, or query execution plans?

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Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Managing High Availability (HA) in your PostgreSQL hosting is very important to ensuring your database deployment clusters maintain exceptional uptime and strong operational performance so your data is always available to your application. It reduces downtime and supports business continuity.

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 22, 2019

In the final post of this series, we will review the last solution, Patroni by Zalando, and compare all three at the end so you can determine which high availability framework is best for your PostgreSQL hosting deployment. Managing High Availability in PostgreSQL – Part I: PostgreSQL Automatic Failover. Patroni for PostgreSQL.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Metric definitions are often scattered across various databases, documentation sites, and code repositories, making it difficult for analysts and data scientists to find reliable information quickly. A metric can therefore be defined once in DJ and be made available across analytics dashboards and experimentation analysis.

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Analytics Engineering Entertainment Metrics 212

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The nirvana state of system uptime at peak loads is known as “five-nines availability.” In its pursuit, IT teams hover over system performance dashboards hoping their preparations will deliver five nines—or even four nines—availability. But is five nines availability attainable? Downtime per year. 90% (one nine).

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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. They can also facilitate automations that require information available only in the “login window” context, such as the provided username and password. Deploy Escrow Buddy.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2024

You’re gathering a lot of data, but you can’t make sense of it. A histogram is a specific type of metric that allows users to understand the distribution of data points over a period of time. In practice, histograms are useful when the measurement distribution is relevant and the data sets are large.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 10, 2025

Whether youre a developer, database administrator, or data analyst, a good GUI can make everyday tasks faster, clearer, and less error-prone. In this post, well walk through some of the best MySQL GUI tools available in 2025covering both free and commercial optionsso you can find the one that fits your workflow.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

The jobs executing such workloads are usually required to operate indefinitely on unbounded streams of continuous data and exhibit heterogeneous modes of failure as they run over long periods. Failures are injected using Chaos Mesh , an open source chaos engineering platform integrated with Kubernetes deployment.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Some time ago, at a restaurant near Boston, three Dynatrace colleagues dined and discussed the growing data challenge for enterprises. At its core, this challenge involves a rapid increase in the amount—and complexity—of data collected within a company. Work with different and independent data types. Thus, Grail was born.

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Percona

APRIL 28, 2023

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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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

From the moment a Netflix film or series is pitched and long before it becomes available on Netflix, it goes through many phases. Operational Reporting is a reporting paradigm specialized in covering high-resolution, low-latency data sets, serving detailed day-to-day activities¹ and processes of a business domain.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

Store the data in an optimized, highly distributed datastore. Additionally, some collectors will instead poll our kafka queue for impressions data. This data is processed from a real-time impressions stream into a Kafka queue, which our title health system regularly polls. Track real-time title impressions from the NetflixUI.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2024

In today’s data-driven world, businesses across various industry verticals increasingly leverage the Internet of Things (IoT) to drive efficiency and innovation. Dynatrace offers a feature-rich agent, Dynatrace OneAgent ® , and an agentless open source approach perfectly tailored for edge-IoT use cases, leveraging OpenTelemetry.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 13, 2025

OpenTelemetry Astronomy Shop is a demo application created by the OpenTelemetry community to showcase the features and capabilities of the popular open-source OpenTelemetry observability standard. metrics from span data. Afterward, the demo starts instantly, and the load generator automatically begins creating data.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Organizations choose data-driven approaches to maximize the value of their data, achieve better business outcomes, and realize cost savings by improving their products, services, and processes. However, there are many obstacles and limitations along the way to becoming a data-driven organization. Understanding the context.

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Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2023

IT operations analytics is the process of unifying, storing, and contextually analyzing operational data to understand the health of applications, infrastructure, and environments and streamline everyday operations. ITOA collects operational data to identify patterns and anomalies for faster incident management and near-real-time insights.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

The study analyzes factual Kubernetes production data from thousands of organizations worldwide that are using the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform to keep their Kubernetes clusters secure, healthy, and high performing. Open-source software drives a vibrant Kubernetes ecosystem. Java, Go, and Node.js

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

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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Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

The subject line said: “Success Story: Major Issue in single AWS Frankfurt Availability Zone!” The problem started at 1:24PM PDT, with the services starting to become available again about 3 hours later. In our case that includes the login to our SaaS tenants and exploring captured data. Ready to learn more?

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Scalegrid

JULY 17, 2020

It is an open standard format which organizes data into key/value pairs and arrays detailed in RFC 7159. JSON is the most common format used by web services to exchange data, store documents, unstructured data, etc. You can also check out our Working with JSON Data in PostgreSQL vs. JSONB Patterns & Antipatterns.

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Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

The unstoppable rise of open source databases. One database in particular is causing a huge dent in Oracle’s market share – open source PostgreSQL. See how open source PostgreSQL Community version costs compare to Oracle Standard Edition and Oracle Enterprise Edition. What’s causing this massive shift?

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Andreas Andreakis , Ioannis Papapanagiotou Overview Change-Data-Capture (CDC) allows capturing committed changes from a database in real-time and propagating those changes to downstream consumers [1][2]. Therefore, dumps are needed to capture the full state of a source. Designed with High Availability in mind.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In this article, I’m going to demonstrate how you can migrate a comprehensive web application from MySQL to YugabyteDB using the open-source data migration engine YugabyteDB Voyager. This helps improve availability, scalability, and performance.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2022

Over the last year, Dynatrace extended its AI-powered log monitoring capabilities by providing support for all log data sources. We added monitoring and analytics for log streams from Kubernetes and multicloud platforms like AWS, GCP, and Azure, as well as the most widely used open-source log data frameworks.

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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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview Interview with Pallavi Phadnis This post is part of our “ Data Engineers of Netflix ” series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. Pallavi Phadnis is a Senior Software Engineer on the Product Data Science and Engineering team.

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Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

PostgreSQL graphical user interface (GUI) tools help these open source database users to manage, manipulate, and visualize their data. Offers great visualization to help you interpret your data. The window-based interface makes it much easier to manage your PostgreSQL data. pgAdmin Cost: Free (open source).

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Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2024

OpenTelemetry standardizes how organizations instrument, generate, and collect telemetry data for analysis and provides community-based support. Because of its flexibility, this open source approach to instrumenting and collecting telemetry data is becoming increasingly important in large-size organizations.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Docker Engine is built on top containerd , the leading open-source container runtime, a project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (DNCF). Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration platform for managing, automating, and scaling containerized applications. Here the overlap with Kubernetes begins.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2022

Fluentd is an open-source data collector that unifies log collection, processing, and consumption. Built-in resiliency ensures data completeness and consistency even if Fluentd or an endpoint service goes down temporarily. All metrics, traces, and real user data are also surfaced in the context of specific events.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

RabbitMQ is designed for flexible routing and message reliability, while Kafka handles high-throughput event streaming and real-time data processing. Both serve distinct purposes, from managing message queues to ingesting large data volumes. What is RabbitMQ? What is Apache Kafka?

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