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. Kill the PostgreSQL process.

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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. Effective management of failover and switchover operations is crucial for high availability.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Kubernetes is a widely used open source system for container orchestration. However, due to the fact that they boil down selected indicators to single values and track error budget levels, they also offer a suitable way to monitor optimization processes while aligning on single values to meet overall goals.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is a massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL database that is built and based on PostgreSQL. Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. What Exactly is Greenplum? Greenplum Advantages.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

If country_iso_code doesnt already exist in the fact table, the metric owner only needs to tell DJ that account_id is the foreign key to an `users_dimension_table` (we call this process dimension linking ). A metric can therefore be defined once in DJ and be made available across analytics dashboards and experimentation analysis.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 15, 2024

This collector, fully supported and maintained by Dynatrace, is entirely open source. Understanding OpenTelemetry OpenTelemetry is an open, vendor-neutral standard for creating, collecting, and transferring telemetry data, like traces, metrics, and logs. A collector is also a powerful component for data processing.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2024

This feature, available by default for OTel-instrumented services, allows users a standard way to measure and compare response times across different services consistently. But for now, percentile calculation and buckets are available only for explicit bucket histograms.

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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. With OpenPipeline, you can easily collect data from Dynatrace OneAgent®, open source collectors such as OpenTelemetry, or other third-party tools.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Open source software has become a key standard for developing modern applications. From common coding libraries to orchestrating container-based computing, organizations now rely on open source software—and the open standards that define them—for essential functions throughout their software stack.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Open source software has become a key standard for developing modern applications. From common coding libraries to orchestrating container-based computing, organizations now rely on open source software—and the open standards that define them—for essential functions throughout their software stack.

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Open Source Software Software Development 130

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

As a result, requests are uniformly handled, and responses are processed cohesively. This data is processed from a real-time impressions stream into a Kafka queue, which our title health system regularly polls. Many of the metadata and assets involved in title setup have specific timelines for when they become available to members.

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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. Next, select one of the log lines to view the available attributes. metrics from span data.

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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. RabbitMQ follows a message broker model with advanced routing, while Kafkas event streaming architecture uses partitioned logs for distributed processing. What is RabbitMQ?

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Latency Analytics Architecture Storage 147

Percona

OCTOBER 20, 2023

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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Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Migrating a proprietary database to open source is a major decision that can significantly affect your organization. It’s a complex process involving various factors and meticulous planning. Flexibility and scalability Open source databases provide much greater flexibility regarding customization and configuration.

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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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Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

Open-source software drives a vibrant Kubernetes ecosystem. That trend will likely continue as Kubernetes security awareness further rises and a new class of security solutions becomes available. Open source software drives a vibrant Kubernetes ecosystem. Java, Go, and Node.js Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2025

OpenTelemetry provides us with a standard for generating, collecting, and emitting telemetry, and we have existing tooling that leverages OTel data to help us understand work processes and workflows. Fun fact: the OTel docs are now available in English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Portuguese, and Chinese!

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Open Source Energy Benchmarking Tuning 130

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Container security is the practice of applying security tools, processes, and policies to protect container-based workloads. Application developers commonly leverage open-source software when building containerized applications. 1] And unfortunately, open-source software is often fraught with security vulnerabilities.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2024

Because of its flexibility, this open source approach to instrumenting and collecting telemetry data is becoming increasingly important in large-size organizations. Our unwavering commitment to open source initiatives underscores our mission to foster transparency, collaboration, and innovation.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

Stream processing One approach to such a challenging scenario is stream processing, a computing paradigm and software architectural style for data-intensive software systems that emerged to cope with requirements for near real-time processing of massive amounts of data.

Engineering 245

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Dynatrace

JULY 2, 2024

Log collection platforms, such as Fluent Bit, give organizations a much-needed solution for quickly gathering and processing log data to make it available in different backends for further analytics. Fluent Bit, an open source tool within the CNCF ecosystem, is a popular choice when choosing which log collection tool to use.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In these modern environments, every hardware, software, and cloud infrastructure component and every container, open-source tool, and microservice generates records of every activity. An advanced observability solution can also be used to automate more processes, increasing efficiency and innovation among Ops and Apps teams.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. This guide provides an overview of what high availability means, the components involved, how to measure high availability, and how to achieve it. How does high availability work?

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Dynatrace

MARCH 20, 2024

Deploying software in Kubernetes is often viewed as a straightforward process—just use kubectl or a GitOps solution like ArgoCD to deploy a YAML file, and you’re all set, right? Infrastructure health The underlying infrastructure’s health directly impacts application availability and performance.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 11, 2025

Site reliability engineers, performance architects, and developers can now leverage dynamic analysis tools like dashboards and workflows to explore trends, automate processes, and maintain control at an unprecedented level. OpenPipeline ingests, processes, and manages observability, security, and business data at any scale.

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Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2023

Dynatrace introduced the Dynatrace Operator, built on the open source project Operator Framework, in late 2018. It simplifies the process of setting up and maintaining Dynatrace observability by encapsulating the necessary configuration and operational logic into a single entity.

Architecture 189

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Open-source metric sources automatically map to our Smartscape model for AI analytics. Once you send metrics via the OneAgent REST API, the relevant hosts are automatically enriched with all available monitoring dimensions. Telegraf is an open-source agent by Influxdata. All in real time.

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Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2024

A key learning from the outage caused by the faulty CrowdStrike “Rapid Response” update is how critical it is to understand your vendors’ quality control and release processes. What is your testing process? What measures are in place to ensure the security of open-source components? How do you roll out new features?

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

DevOps platform engineers are responsible for cloud platform availability and performance, as well as the efficiency of virtual bandwidth, routers, switches, virtual private networks, firewalls, and network management. Version control system and source code management with end-to-end DevOps platform and cloud-hosted Git services.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Open source has also become a fundamental building block of the entire cloud-native stack. While leveraging cloud-native platforms, open-source and third-party libraries accelerate time to value significantly, it also creates new challenges for application security.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2021

These include spending too much time on manual processes, finger-pointing due to siloed teams, and poor customer experience because of unplanned work. Microsoft’s GitHub is the largest open-source software community in the world with millions of open-source projects. GitHub and GitHub Actions.

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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. It supports all PostgreSQL operations and features while being free and open-source. pgAdmin Cost: Free (open source). Let’s start with the first and most popular one.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2023

Security misconfiguration Security misconfiguration covers the basic security checks every software development process should include. Vulnerable and outdated components This is another broad category that covers libraries, frameworks, and open source components with known vulnerabilities that may not have been patched.

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Internet Internet 246

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Part one also provided an overview of Dynatrace’s Cloud Automation solution, Microsoft’s GitHub Actions , and open-source examples you can use and extend related to deployment and release monitoring. This second set of steps onboard a service and when the service SLI processing rules change. Monitoring as Code workflow example.

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