The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

by David Berg , Ravi Kiran Chirravuri , Romain Cledat , Savin Goyal , Ferras Hamad , Ville Tuulos tl;dr Metaflow is now open-source! About two years ago, we, at our newly formed Machine Learning Infrastructure team started asking our data scientists a question: “What is the hardest thing for you as a data scientist at Netflix?”

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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. Source: OpenTelemetry Documentation. Dynatrace news.

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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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Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

Cloud application security is becoming more of a critical issue as cloud-based applications gain popularity. The cloud allows a modular approach to building applications, enabling development and operations teams to create and deploy feature-rich apps very quickly. What is cloud application security?

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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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Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

The use of open source databases has increased steadily in recent years. Past trepidation — about perceived vulnerabilities and performance issues — has faded as decision makers realize what an “open source database” really is and what it offers. What is an open source database?

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Percona

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Today’s businesses face two major challenges when it comes to managing databases: vendor lock-in of public cloud providers and the inherent complexity of running and managing databases. Percona Everest revolutionizes the landscape of database management by embracing the power of open source stack.

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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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Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2021

Infrastructure monitoring is the process of collecting critical data about your IT environment, including information about availability, performance and resource efficiency. Many organizations respond by adding a proliferation of infrastructure monitoring tools, which in many cases, just adds to the noise. Dynatrace news.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

by David Berg , Ravi Kiran Chirravuri , Romain Cledat , Savin Goyal , Ferras Hamad , Ville Tuulos tl;dr Metaflow is now open-source! About two years ago, we, at our newly formed Machine Learning Infrastructure team started asking our data scientists a question: “What is the hardest thing for you as a data scientist at Netflix?”

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Protecting IT infrastructure, applications, and data requires that you understand security weaknesses attackers can exploit. NMAP is an example of a well-known open-source network scanner. The Open Web Application Security Project ( OWASP ) is a nonprofit foundation that lists the top 10 API vulnerabilities.

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Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

We’re equally convinced on both counts, but in this blog article, we’re focusing on why MongoDB is not open source. Let’s start with this: MongoDB is accurately referred to as source-available software. To be clear, we are rock-solid in our stance that MongoDB is not open source.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

But as more organizations adopt cloud-native technologies and distribute workloads among multicloud environments, that goal seems harder to attain. In fact, a recent survey found that many cloud applications are vulnerable to outages , despite growing confidence in cloud platforms and services. What is always-on infrastructure?

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Energy efficiency is a key reason why organizations are migrating workloads from energy-intensive on-premises environments to more efficient cloud platforms. But while moving workloads to the cloud brings overall carbon emissions down, the cloud computing carbon footprint itself is growing. Certainly, this is true for us.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. This insight led us to build Edgar: a distributed tracing infrastructure and user experience. Our tactical approach was to use Netflix-specific libraries for collecting traces from Java-based streaming services until open source tracer libraries matured.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In recent years, function-as-a-service (FaaS) platforms such as Google Cloud Functions (GCF) have gained popularity as an easy way to run code in a highly available, fault-tolerant serverless environment. What is Google Cloud Functions? Google Cloud Functions is a serverless compute service for creating and launching microservices.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

Modern, cloud-native computing is impossible to separate from containers and Kubernetes adoption. Findings provide insights into Kubernetes practitioners’ infrastructure preferences and how they use advanced Kubernetes platform technologies. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2023

Logs complement metrics and enable automation Cloud practitioners agree that observability, security, and automation go hand in hand. The increasing complexity of cloud service architectures requires a rock-solid understanding of the activity, health status, and security of cloud services.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 11, 2023

Today’s organizations face increasing pressure to keep their cloud-based applications performing and secure. Cloud application security remains challenging because organizations lack end-to-end visibility into cloud architecture.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

Thinking about going multi-cloud? A well-planned multi cloud strategy can seriously upgrade your business’s tech game, making you more agile. Key Takeaways Multi-cloud strategies have become increasingly popular due to the need for flexibility, innovation, and the avoidance of vendor lock-in.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

Central engineering teams enable this operational model by reducing the cognitive burden on innovation teams through solutions related to securing, scaling and strengthening (resilience) the infrastructure. All these micro-services are currently operated in AWS cloud infrastructure.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 17, 2024

In an article published by The Register’s Tom Claburn, Dynatrace chief technology strategist Alois Reitbauer shares his insights on the transformative role Kubernetes played in initiating the cloud-native movement. He explains how this open source project has set the industry standard for container orchestration since its inception.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Cloud-native technologies, including Kubernetes and OpenShift, help organizations accelerate innovation. Open source has also become a fundamental building block of the entire cloud-native stack. Why cloud-native applications, Kubernetes, and open source require a radically different approach to application security.

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

There's a move to regulate cloud providers by vertically separating the services they offer. Like railroads of yore, who were not allowed to provide freight services on top of their base services, cloud providers would not be allowed to provide services on top of their base platform services. The job of a cloud is to run workloads.

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Scalegrid

JUNE 6, 2019

June 6, 2019 – ScaleGrid , the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) leader in the SQL and NoSQL space, has announced the expansion of their fully managed MySQL Hosting services to support Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. PALO ALTO, Calif.,

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Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

To combat Kubernetes complexity and capitalize on the full benefits of the open-source container orchestration platform, organizations need advanced AIOps that can intelligently manage the environment. Cloud-native observability delivers enhanced Kubernetes insight. That’s where AIOps comes in.

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Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The evolution of cloud-native technology has been nothing short of revolutionary. As we step into 2024, the cornerstone of cloud-native technology, Kubernetes, will turn ten years old. Keynotes were focused on how Kubernetes and Cloud Native help businesses embrace the new AI era. We expect that number to rise higher in 2024.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

It’s cliched to say that cloud adoption has changed everything in this race, but a full understanding of the intricacies of cloud-native applications is still rare. Cloud-based application architectures commonly leverage microservices. Extend infrastructure observability to WSO2 API Manager. Read on to see how it works.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In the dynamic world of cloud-native technologies, monitoring and observability have become indispensable. Prometheus, a powerful open-source monitoring system, emerges as a perfect fit for this role, especially when integrated with Kubernetes. Kubernetes, the de-facto orchestration platform, offers scalability and agility.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Leveraging cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes or Red Hat OpenShift in multicloud ecosystems across Amazon Web Services (AWS) , Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for faster digital transformation introduces a whole host of challenges. Dynatrace news. Connecting data siloes requires daunting integration endeavors.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

Container orchestration allows an organization to digitally transform at a rapid clip without getting bogged down by slow, siloed development, difficult scaling, and high costs associated with optimizing application infrastructure. Like Kubernetes, OpenShift is an open source Kubernetes-based container platform.

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DZone

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In enterprises, SREs, DevOps, and cloud architects often discuss which platform to choose for observability for faster troubleshooting of issues and understanding about performance of their production systems. Will the investment in the (ongoing or new) observability tool be justified?

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DZone

JUNE 28, 2023

Welcome to another chapter in the ongoing series I started covering my journey into the world of cloud-native observability. I continued onwards with a few of the architectural challenges you might encounter when older monolithic applications and monitoring tools are still part of an organization's infrastructure landscape.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Cloud environments—including multicloud, hybrid, and cloud-native ecosystems—offer unmatched agility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness, though they also present new challenges and complexities that are impossible to manage manually.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

You may already be using it daily and find it makes running applications in the cloud much more manageable. At its core, Kubernetes (often abbreviated as K8s) is an open source tool that automates the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

These are two values he shares with DevOps activist Andreas Grabner, who sat down with Hightower at Dynatrace Perform 2022 to talk about taming Kubernetes and the future of cloud-native technologies. Infrastructure as code vs infrastructure as data. Hightower likes to think of it as infrastructure as data.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

When it comes to infrastructure provisioning, including the AWS EKS cluster, Terraform is the first tool that comes to mind. Learning Terraform is much easier than setting up the infrastructure manually. That said, would you rather use the traditional approach to set up the infrastructure, or would you prefer to use Terraform?

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