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. The GUI can be extended with plugins, allowing the community to build integrations to other systems, custom visualizations, and embed upcoming features of Metaflow directly into its views.

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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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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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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Due to its versatility for storing information in both structured and unstructured formats, PostgreSQL is the fourth most used standard in modern database management systems (DBMS) worldwide 1. Offering comprehensive access to files, software features, and the operating system in a more user-friendly manner to ensure control.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Analytics Engineers deliver these insights by establishing deep business and product partnerships; translating business challenges into solutions that unblock critical decisions; and designing, building, and maintaining end-to-end analytical systems. DJ has a strong pedigreethere are several prior semantic layers in the industry (e.g.

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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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Dynatrace

JUNE 17, 2024

He explains how this open source project has set the industry standard for container orchestration since its inception. Kubernetes traces its roots back to Google’s internal Borg and Omega cluster management systems from the early 2000s.

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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. Before open source was available, there was little to no interoperability between computer systems.

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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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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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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Many of these projects are under constant development by dedicated teams with their own business goals and development best practices, such as the system that supports our content decision makers , or the system that ranks which language subtitles are most valuable for a specific piece ofcontent.

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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. Below we toggle between the original source in 444 and the source converted to 420 subsampling. This is followed by quantization and entropy coding.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Stranger Things imagery showcasing the inspiration for the Hawkins Design System by Hawkins team member Joshua Godi ; with art contributions by Wiki Chaves Hawkins may be the name of a fictional town in Indiana, most widely known as the backdrop for one of Netflix’s most popular TV series “Stranger Things,” but the name is so much more.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

As dynamic systems architectures increase in complexity and scale, IT teams face mounting pressure to track and respond to conditions and issues across their multi-cloud environments. Organizations usually implement observability using a combination of instrumentation methods including open-source instrumentation tools, such as OpenTelemetry.

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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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Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Oracle Database is a commercial, proprietary multi-model database management system produced by Oracle Corporation, and the largest relational database management system (RDBMS) in the world. The unstoppable rise of open source databases. What’s causing this massive shift? Check out the PostgreSQL vs. Oracle Infographic.

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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. PostgreSQL is the fourth most popular database management system in the world, and heavily used in all sizes of applications from small to large. pgAdmin Cost: Free (open source).

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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

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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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

MARCH 12, 2025

Amazon Bedrock , equipped with Dynatrace Davis AI and LLM observability , gives you end-to-end insight into the Generative AI stack, from code-level visibility and performance metrics to GenAI-specific guardrails. Any error codes or guardrail triggers. Youve found the why without manually spelunking logs in disparate systems.

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Percona

JUNE 2, 2023

While not the first open source content management system (CMS), WordPress caught on like nothing before and helped spread open source to millions. It was simple, easy to deploy, and easy to use, and WordPress had the added benefit of being open source. It was easy to use. Note that I said values.

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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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Think of containers as the packaging for microservices that separate the content from its environment – the underlying operating system and infrastructure. These tools integrate tightly with code repositories (such as GitHub) and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline tools (such as Jenkins). Kubernetes.

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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. The compromised software can then compromise customer data or IT systems.

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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

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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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

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

DECEMBER 8, 2022

They are similar to site reliability engineers (SREs) who focus on creating scalable, highly reliable software systems. Belgian engineer Patrick Debois coined the term “DevOps” in 2009 when he needed a Twitter hashtag for DevOpsDays, an agile systems administrators conference in Europe. Atlassian Jira. Kubernetes.

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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. Various software systems are needed to design, build, and operate this CDN infrastructure, and a significant number of them are written in Python. If any of this interests you, check out the jobs site or find us at PyCon.

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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. Changes are introduced on a controlled schedule, typically once a week, to reduce the risk of affecting customer systems.

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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. So, why is all this important?

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