The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Open-Sourcing a Monitoring GUI for Metaflow, Netflix’s ML Platform tl;dr Today, we are open-sourcing a long-awaited GUI for Metaflow. link] Metaflow is a full-stack framework for data science that we started developing at Netflix over four years ago and which we open-sourced in 2019. just to complement them.

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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. Dynatrace news. OpenCensus, OpenTracing, and OpenTelemetry.

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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? When it comes to DevOps best practices, practitioners need ways to automate processes and make their day-to-day tasks more efficient.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2025

This powerful tool can be leveraged across various environments, including production, to enhance development processes and ensure robust application performance. On the other hand, deploying new code on the backend is complex and offers no such transparency. Learn the code How often do you dive into a code you dont understand?

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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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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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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 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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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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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Moreover, the OpenTelemetry Collector can measure service span durations, categorized by span names, span kinds, and status codes. This self-monitoring aspect is crucial for maintaining the health and efficiency of the Collector itself, ensuring that it can handle the demands of large-scale data collection and processing without degradation.

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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

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

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

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

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Indeed, according to one survey, DevOps practices have led to 60% of developers releasing code twice as quickly. But increased speed creates a tradeoff: According to another study, nearly half of organizations consciously deploy vulnerable code because of time pressure. Increased adoption of Infrastructure as code (IaC).

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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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DZone

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Applications used in the field of Big Data process huge amounts of information, and this often happens in real time. Naturally, such applications must be highly reliable so that no error in the code can interfere with data processing. It is an open-source framework for distributed processing of large amounts of data.

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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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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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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

DevOps teams are responsible for all phases of the software development lifecycle, from code commit to the deployment of products and services. Version control system and source code management with end-to-end DevOps platform and cloud-hosted Git services. Open source automated browser and testing tool. Kubernetes.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2023

Security misconfiguration Security misconfiguration covers the basic security checks every software development process should include. To avoid these problems, set up automated DevSecOps release validation and security gates so that no insecure code progresses to production.

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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. Example #3 – Automate Monitoring configuration as code. Monitoring as Code workflow example. Blog series use cases.

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Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The green frames are the actual instructions running on the AI or GPU accelerator, aqua shows the source code for these functions, and red (C), yellow (C++), and orange (kernel) show the CPU code paths that initiated these AI/GPU programs. A flame graph is a visualization I invented in 2011 for showing sampled code stack traces.

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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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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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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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DZone

MARCH 11, 2024

This article delves deep into the essence of Istio, illustrating its pivotal role in a Kubernetes (KIND) based environment, and guides you through a Helm-based installation process, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of Istio's capabilities and its impact on microservices architecture.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Today, development teams suffer from a lack of automation for time-consuming tasks, the absence of standardization due to an overabundance of tool options, and insufficiently mature DevSecOps processes. This process begins when the developer merges a code change and ends when it is running in a production environment.

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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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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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Dynatrace

AUGUST 13, 2024

Modern observability and security require comprehensive access to your hosts, processes, services, and applications to monitor system performance, conduct live debugging, and ensure application security protection. It automatically discovers and monitors each host’s applications, services, processes, and infrastructure components.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2024

A natural solution is to make flows configurable using configuration files, so variants can be defined without changing the code. Unlike parameters, configs can be used more widely in your flow code, particularly, they can be used in step or flow level decorators as well as to set defaults for parameters.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

DevSecOps is a cross-team collaboration framework that integrates security into DevOps processes from the start rather than waiting to address security in a separate silo. DevOps has gained ground in recent years as a way to combine key operational principles with development cycles, recognizing that these two processes must coexist.

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DZone

JUNE 30, 2020

Network service automation-related requirements are usually realized by means of commercial or open-source network orchestrator or controller software system. JMeter Netconf Plug-in and Network Service Automation. JMeter Netconf plug-in implementation includes two modules.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 14, 2020

On top of that, our CNCF Open Source project, Keptn , brings cloud automation use cases around progressive delivery and operations to our users enabling our Dynatrace customers to establish a NoOps culture like we have at Dynatrace engineering. It happened in June 2020. Can we fix it? Yes, we can!

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