Percona

APRIL 26, 2023

Even though open source software is firmly in the mainstream, used widely by businesses, governments, and everyone who owns a cell phone or computer, the question repeatedly arises: “Is open source software safe?” Is open source software as stable as other software? Our bar is higher than that.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2023

In today’s complex multicloud environments, ensuring that your cloud applications are protected and secure is critical. The advent of microservices and serverless computing means that cloud-based applications may consist of thousands of containerized services.

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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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High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2019

Need cloud? Consume Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 (35 nearly 5 star reviews). Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading). Do you like this sort of Stuff?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

Their “ State of Open Source Security Report, 2020 ” found that the most common vulnerabilities are cross-site scripting vulnerabilities (18%), followed by malicious packages (13%). Snyk also reports that open-source software is a common entry point for vulnerabilities. Whether the process is exposed to the Internet.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Application developers commonly leverage open-source software when building containerized applications. In fact, the market research firm Forrester says that the average container image is comprised of 70% open-source software.[1] 1] And unfortunately, open-source software is often fraught with security vulnerabilities.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Please support me on Patreon and you'll get 100 free cloud credits in heaven. Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining the cloud? Then please recommend my well reviewed book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. @mipsytipsy #CloudNativeLondon. Do you like this sort of Stuff? They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever. $2

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The open-source scripting language PHP is used by over 78% of all websites that use a server-side programming language. Lack of automation to keep pace with dynamic clouds and rapid software development practices. Asset exposure —indicates exposure of the vulnerable code to the internet. Dynatrace news.

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Alex Podelko

JUNE 12, 2019

IBM Rational Performance Tester and IBM Rational Performance Tester on Cloud (including no charge Starter Edition) appear to be available. Microsoft announced that cloud-based load testing in Microsoft Visual Studio and cloud-based load testing in Azure DevOps will be retired. Open Source.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 17, 2021

At the same time, cloud-native technologies and open-source software have introduced a new level of speed and complexity. To reduce their backlogs, some companies focus on the most popular open-source components, and some only address vulnerabilities that appear after a certain date. Dynatrace news.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

We use and contribute to many open-source Python packages, some of which are mentioned below. Demand Engineering Demand Engineering is responsible for Regional Failovers , Traffic Distribution, Capacity Operations and Fleet Efficiency of the Netflix cloud. We are proud to say that our team’s tools are built primarily in Python.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The vulnerability, published as CVE-2021-44228 , enables a remote attacker to take control of a device on the internet, if the device is running certain versions of Log4j 2. Simply put, attackers can remotely take over any internet-connected device that uses certain versions of the Log4j library anywhere in the software stack.

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 21, 2018

What could be better than a book on the cloud? Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. swardley: X : What's going to happen in cloud in 2019? 2) Cloud will decentralise in terms of provision not power i.e. Amazon will "invade" more of those holdouts with AWS Outpost. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please support me on Patreon.

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining the cloud? Then please recommend my well reviewed book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 (30 reviews!). Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please support me on Patreon. I'd really appreciate it. They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever. They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever.

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Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2019

WordPress is the largest website builder platform in the world, supporting over 34% of all websites on the internet today. MySQL is a free open source relational database management system that is leveraged across a majority of WordPress sites, and allows you to query your data such as posts, pages, images, user profiles, and more.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2022

In addition, as businesses of all kinds adopt cloud-native and open source technologies, their environments become more flexible. Cloud environment toolkits —microservices, Kubernetes, and serverless platforms — deliver business agility, but also create complexity for which many security solutions weren’t designed.

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Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

These are just a fraction of the technology buzzwords you’ll find as you Google your way around the internet. OpenTelemetry is currently a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) sandbox project with the ultimate goal of providing a unified set of vendor-agnostic libraries/APIs for collecting and sending data to compatible backends.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The vision was to create a “Studio in the Cloud”, with applications supporting every part of the business from pitch to play. You’ll hear from two teams here: first Application Security, and then Cloud Gateway. Our gateways are powered by our flagship open-source technology Zuul.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The vulnerability enables a remote attacker to take control of a device on the internet if the device runs certain versions of Log4j 2. SCA indicates whether an organization’s source code contains the vulnerable library. A modern cloud observability platform with integrated AIOps offers a more holistic approach. Are we affected?

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High Scalability

AUGUST 9, 2018

And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. John Mark : It’s time to understand something about open source software development: it is not going to save us. Don't miss them.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Overall, the improvements can be summarized as: 40% fewer rebuffers Higher video quality for both bandwidth-constrained as well as unconstrained sessions Lower initial bitrate Higher initial quality Lower play delay Less variation in delivered video quality Lower Internet data usage, especially on mobiles and tablets Will HDR-VMAF be open-source?

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DZone

JUNE 1, 2020

As applications are designed and developed for varied platforms, spanning mobile, desktop, and cloud, testing user interfaces has turned into an increasingly complicated and risk-prone job. Selenium is a popular open-source test automation tool, nowadays in demand, and extensively used tool in the test market.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 17, 2019

This open source tool has cross-platform support and actually embeds the mongo shell within its interface to provide both shell and GUI-based interaction. For AWS customers who have their deployments open to the internet, this will involve adding the identified machine’s IP address to the ScaleGrid cluster’s whitelist.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

Traditional application security measures are not living up to the challenges presented by dynamic and complex cloud-native architectures and rapid software release cycles. Applications are open to the internet and accessed by unknown entities, some of which may have malicious intent.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 9, 2023

Falco is an open-source, cloud-native security tool that utilizes the Linux kernel technology  eBPF , to generate fine-grained networking, security, and observability events. In the following sections, we demo the following: Introduce Unguard, our insecure cloud-native microservices demo application.

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Percona

MAY 9, 2023

Will you be able to move it freely among different applications, environments, and cloud services? Avoid cloud jailers by going multi-cloud or hybrid Speaking of cloud services, defining the cloud as an inherently fluffy and safe place for databases is generally not accurate. Ask about data portability.

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Dynatrace

MAY 7, 2024

Fluent Bit was created before Kubernetes existed when Internet of Things (IoT) was a new buzzword. Unfortunately, their market prediction wasn’t correct; the cloud became more successful than IOT. However, Fluent Bit was designed to be lightweight, multi-threaded, and run on edge devices.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2022

At Kitopi we are satisfying the worlds’ appetite by running a high-tech powered network of cloud kitchens. And not to forget – besides our orders we are also monitoring the kitchen itself such as whether a kitchen is currently open and operating or how the internet connectivity to the central servers is.

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Metrics Mobile Internet Internet 246

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. Database downtime can hurt or doom any company with anything to do with the internet. In general terms, again, when it comes to database reliability, the stakes are high.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud Kleppmann et al., On the one-hand we have ‘cloud apps’ which make it easy to access our work from multiple devices and to collaborate online with others (e.g. The primary issue with cloud apps (the SaaS model) is ownership of the data. I’m all in :).

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Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

These are just a fraction of the technology buzzwords you’ll find as you Google your way around the internet. The OpenCensus project was made open source by Google back in 2018, based on Google’s Census library that was used internally for gathering traces and metrics from their distributed systems. Dynatrace news.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China. Deep Packet Inspection.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Have Superuser permissions: For preparing a database for migration and to migrate a database, we need superuser permissions on the source database. Make database publicly accessible: To migrate a database, the source database’s hostname or IP address must be accessible from the public internet.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., Ford, et al., “TCP on Upcoming Sapphire Rapids CPUs,” [link] Oct 2020 - [Liu 20] Linda Liu, “Samsung QVO vs EVO vs PRO: What’s the Difference?

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Percona

JULY 17, 2023

A survey of 90,240 companies using MongoDB listed the leading uses as Technology and Services (23%), Computer Software (16%), and Internet (6%). Not really open source : Even the MongoDB Community version is not open source; it’s source-available and is under the SSPL license (introduced by MongoDB itself).

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Percona

JUNE 23, 2023

These problems have been rectified, but the old reputation lives on in the annals of the Internet and the memories of critics. PostgreSQL has enjoyed a reputation of being the open source database closest to the SQL Standard, but close might not be good enough for you.

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