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! A key observation was that most of our data scientists had nothing against writing Python code. The steps can be arbitrary Python code. Get started at metaflow.org.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Developers deserve a seamless way to troubleshoot effectively and gain quick insights into their code to identify issues regardless of when or where they arise. Developers not only write code; they’re also accountable for their applications performance and reliability. Browse your code. It’s easy as 1-2-3 1.

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DZone

JANUARY 3, 2024

Did you always want to know more about instrumentation, metrics, and your options for coding with open standards? Look no further, as this article provides you with an easy-to-understand guide to instrumenting your Java using open standards.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

I work at Appsmith , an open-source low code platform for developers to build internal tools and workflows. At Appsmith, our developer users define business logic by writing any JS code in between {{ }} dynamic bindings almost anywhere in the app. They can use this while creating SQL queries, APIs, or triggering actions.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

By Paul Bakker and Kavitha Srinivasan , Images by David Simmer , Edited by Greg Burrell Netflix has developed a Domain Graph Service (DGS) framework and it is now open source. There are two different approaches to GraphQL development; schema-first and code-first development. The code in your service only implements this schema.

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DZone

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The global and vibrant PostgreSQL community is contributing to PostgreSQL's success, diligently ensuring that all changes are carefully scrutinized and reviewed before they are added to the project source code.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 20, 2022

The growing popularity of open source software presents new risks associated with vulnerable libraries. In response, organizations have adopted additional security tools, such as software composition analysis, that scan code libraries for vulnerabilities. Dynatrace news. Both approaches resulted in lost time and resources.

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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. Then, Google made the OpenCensus project open source in 2018.

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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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CSS Wizardry

DECEMBER 3, 2024

This freemium model has been the cornerstone of my consultancy business for the last 11 years, and as someone who learned to code from freely available resources, I’m deeply committed to keeping this knowledge accessible to everyone. Do I need to pay to use your code? Do I need to apply to use your code?

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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Licensing, Security, and Support Free vs. Paid: Is the tool free, open-source, or does it require a license or subscription? Community Support: For open-source tools, is there an active community for troubleshooting and support? Open source with a thriving third-party dependency development ecosystem.

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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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DZone

JUNE 28, 2023

After laying out the groundwork for this series in the initial article, I spent time sharing who the observability players are, looked at the ongoing discussion around monitoring pillars versus phases, shared thoughts on architectural level choices being made, and shared the open standards available within the open source landscape.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2021

HashiCorp’s Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as a code software tool that provides a consistent CLI workflow to manage hundreds of cloud services. What is monitoring as code? No need to swivel-chair into Dynatrace; everything you need can be created at the code level, where developers are already working.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Modern infrastructure needs to be elastic and GitOps approaches are used to automate the provisioning of infrastructure and applications using Git, an open-source control system that provides the change processes including reviews and approvals. Many observability solutions don’t support an “as code” approach.

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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. DJ stands out as an open source solution that is actively developed and stress-tested at Netflix.

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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. You could not compile from scratch as the code was proprietary and could not be shared.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Using the framework we have open sourced, AVIF compression efficiency can be seen at work and compared against a whole range of image codecs that came before it. Brief overview of image coding formats The JPEG format was introduced in 1992 and is widely popular. This is followed by quantization and entropy coding.

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Percona

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Introducing Percona Everest Percona, a leading provider of open source database software and services, is thrilled to unveil Percona Everest, an innovative, open source, private Database as a Service (DBaaS) solution. More We encourage you to visit the documentation page to understand more about Percona Everest.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 10, 2025

HeidiSQL Best for: Windows users looking for a fast, lightweight desktop tool Platforms: Windows (via Wine on Linux/macOS) Pricing: Free HeidiSQL is a popular open-source GUI thats fast, simple, and packed with useful features. Its designed primarily for Windows users, but many developers use it on other platforms via Wine.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 17, 2024

He explains how this open source project has set the industry standard for container orchestration since its inception. Google open-sourced Kubernetes in 2014, positioning it as a competitor to Amazon Web Services, which was already offering open-source software as a service.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

Today, we discuss C# code quality and a variety of errors by the example of CMS DotNetNuke. We're going to dig into its source code. DotNetNuke is an open-source content management system (CMS) written mainly in C#. The source code is available on GitHub. You're going to need a cup of coffee.

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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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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. Procedural language debugger helps you to debug your code. pgAdmin Cost: Free (open source).

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

As a popular open-source MQTT broker, EMQX provides high scalability, reliability, and security for MQTT messaging. By using Terraform, a widespread Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool, you can automate the deployment of EMQX MQTT Broker on AWS, making it easy to set up and manage your MQTT infrastructure.

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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. Metrics can originate from a variety of sources, including infrastructure, hosts, services, cloud platforms, and external sources.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 6, 2022

In addition to requiring a high degree of custom coding, feature flags can rapidly accrue technical debt that can be opaque to diagnose. Using scripting tags, feature flags work without having to deploy new code. Because it’s open source, OpenFeature eliminates the need for organizations to build their own proprietary SDKs and APIs.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Developer tools for building container images : Docker Build creates a container image, the blueprint for a container, including everything needed to run an application – the application code, binaries, scripts, dependencies, configuration, environment variables, and so on. Here the overlap with Kubernetes begins. What is Kubernetes?

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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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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

JUNE 9, 2021

Web application security is the process of protecting web applications against various types of threats that are designed to exploit vulnerabilities in an application’s code. Snyk also reports that open-source software is a common entry point for vulnerabilities. And open-source software is rife with vulnerabilities.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2023

To avoid these problems, set up automated DevSecOps release validation and security gates so that no insecure code progresses to production. 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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Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

Open source vulnerabilities creeping in through the software supply chain are one key reason for this substantial increase. According to one survey, supply chain attacks on open source software increased 650% in 2021. And in the supply chain, open source is clearly a vulnerability.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

This vulnerability, published as CVE-2024-53677 on December 11, 2024, affects the file upload mechanism, allowing for path traversal and potential remote code execution. In our latest research, we analyzed social media, blogs, and other online sources to identify early indicators of such vulnerabilities.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 13, 2022

Open source code, for example, has generated new threat vectors for attackers to exploit. A case in point is Log4Shell, which emerged in late 2021 and exposed open source libraries to exploitation. Software intelligence as code enables tailored observability, AIOps, and application security at scale – blog.

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DZone

MARCH 7, 2023

Apache Spark is a powerful open-source distributed computing framework that provides a variety of APIs to support big data processing. PySpark is the Python API for Apache Spark , which allows Python developers to write Spark applications using Python instead of Scala or Java.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 17, 2021

Application security is a software engineering term that refers to several different types of security practices designed to ensure applications do not contain vulnerabilities that could allow illicit access to sensitive data, unauthorized code modification, or resource hijacking.

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