March, 2025

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Dynatrace + Metis: Helping developers & SREs solve Database issues with AI

Dynatrace

If you’re a developer who has ever had to troubleshoot a database issue, you know how frustrating it can be. One slow query, an inefficient index, or a schema misstep can grind an application to a halt. And with cloud-native databases like PostgreSQL and MySQL, the complexity only grows. Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) also face significant challenges in maintaining database reliability, ensuring performance, and preventing disruptions in highly dynamic and distributed environments.

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HDR10+ Now Streaming on Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Roger Quero , Liwei Guo , Jeff Watts , Joseph McCormick , Agata Opalach , AnushMoorthy We are excited to announce that we are now streaming HDR10+ content on our service for AV1-enabled devices, enhancing the viewing experience for certified HDR10+ devices, which previously only received HDR10 content. The dynamic metadata included in our HDR10+ content improves the quality and accuracy of the picture when viewed on thesedevices.

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Avoid Cross-Shard Data Movement in Distributed Databases

DZone

Modern applications rely on distributed databases to handle massive amounts of data and scale seamlessly across multiple nodes. While sharding helps distribute the load, it also introduces a major challenge cross-shard joins and data movement, which can significantly impact performance.

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Best MySQL GUI Tools [2025]

Scalegrid

Managing MySQL through the command line is powerfulbut not always the most user-friendly experience, especially when working with large datasets, building queries, or handling administrative tasks. Thats where MySQL GUIs come in. A graphical user interface (GUI) helps simplify how you interact with your MySQL databases. Whether youre a developer, database administrator, or data analyst, a good GUI can make everyday tasks faster, clearer, and less error-prone.

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Percona XtraBackup 8.4 Pro: Reduce Server Locking by up to 4300X

Percona

When performing backups, reducing the amount of time your server is locked can significantly improve performance and minimize disruptions. Percona XtraBackup 8.4 Pro introduces improvements in how DDL (Data Definition Language) locks (aka Backup Locks) are managed, allowing for reduced locking during backups. In this post, well explore the impact of these enhancements.

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Escaping POC Purgatory: Evaluation-Driven Development for AI Systems

O'Reilly

Lets be real: building LLM applications today feels like purgatory. Someone hacks together a quick demo with ChatGPT and LlamaIndex. Leadership gets excited. We can answer any question about our docs! But then reality hits. The system is inconsistent, slow, hallucinatingand that amazing demo starts collecting digital dust. We call this POC Purgatorythat frustrating limbo where you’ve built something cool but can’t quite turn it into something real.

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Log filtering made easy: Data segmentation and advanced filters in Dynatrace Logs

Dynatrace

Fast and efficient log analysis is critical in todays data-driven IT environments. For enterprises managing complex systems and vast datasets using traditional log management tools, finding specific log entries quickly and efficiently can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack. Dynatrace segments simplify and streamline data organization in large and complex IT environments, providing pre-scoped data without compromising performance.

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The LLM Advantage: Smarter Time Series Predictions With Less Effort

DZone

Have you ever wondered why predicting next month's sales is so hard? Or why forecasting the weather seems like a coin flip sometimes? Time series data is everywhere, but making sense of it has always been a headache until now. Large language models (LLMs) are shaking things up in the time series world. Seriously, it's like someone finally handed us a decent flashlight after we've been stumbling around in the dark for years.

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Crate-training Tiamat, un-calling Cthulhu:Taming the UB monsters in C++

Sutter's Mill

For more background on safety and security issues related to C++, including definitions of language safety and software security and similar terms, see my March 2024 essay C++ safety, in context. This essay picks up our story where that one left off to bring us up to date with a specific focus on undefined behavior (aka UB). This is a status update on improvements currently in progress for hardening and securing our C++ software.

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Extending MySQL 5.7: Percona Releases Post-End-of-Life Source Code to the Community

Percona

Percona is excited to announce the community release of our MySQL 5.7 End-of-Life (EOL) source code for both Percona Server for MySQL (PS) version 5.7.44-52 and Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) version 5.7.44-31.65.5. This release is an accumulation of several customer-only releases weve done as part of our post-EOL support for MySQL 5.

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Why Do We Have a Cache-Control Request Header?

CSS Wizardry

Learn how the Cache-Control request header works, how browsers handle refresh and hard refresh caching, and when developers should use it for realtime data and offline-first applications.

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Dynatrace Cost & Carbon Optimization certified for accuracy and transparency

Dynatrace

Globally, organizations are increasingly prioritizing sustainability. Board-level mandates and executive-level sponsorship have become the norm. Motivations include regulatory pressures, favorable investment potential, cost savings, competitive advantage, talent acquisition, and moral imperative. While a dynamic political climate can disrupt how these drivers are prioritized, the goal remains important, and momentum remains strong.

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Foundation Model for Personalized Recommendation

The Netflix TechBlog

By Ko-Jen Hsiao , Yesu Feng and Sudarshan Lamkhede Motivation Netflixs personalized recommender system is a complex system, boasting a variety of specialized machine learned models each catering to distinct needs including Continue Watching and Todays Top Picks for You. (Refer to our recent overview for more details). However, as we expanded our set of personalization algorithms to meet increasing business needs, maintenance of the recommender system became quite costly.

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Designing and Maintaining Event-Driven Architectures

DZone

Event-driven architecture (EDA) gives your system the ability to receive and respond to changes in real time, making it easier to scale. Decoupling components is the core theme of EDA, which makes it flexible, allowing it to scale asynchronously based on events. This approach makes systems reactive, scalable, and resilient to failures. Designing and maintaining, like any other large-scale framework, requires deep thinking and constant monitoring.

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Announcing tRPC v11

tRPC

Although tRPC v11 has been production-ready for a long time via the @next tag, we've gotten kinda addicted to adding new features without being sticklers to semantic versioning. Today, we're excited to finally be ripping off the band-aid and announcing the official release of tRPC v11! Since our last major version release in November 2022, the tRPC community has seen substantial growth: We now have over 35,000 stars on GitHub A Discord community with over 5,000 members 700k+ weekly npm downloads

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Percona Monitoring and Management 2: Clarifying the End-of-Life and Transition to PMM 3

Percona

At Percona, we’re committed to providing you with the best database monitoring and management tools. With the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 3 (PMM 3), we’re now entering a critical phase in the lifecycle of PMM 2.

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Downtime vs slowtime: Which costs you more?

Speed Curve

Comparing site outages to page slowdowns is like comparing a tire blowout to a slow leak. One is big and dramatic. The other is quiet and insidious. Either way, you end up stranded on the side of the road. Downtime is horrifying for any company that uses the web as a vital part of its business (which is to say, most companies). Some of you may remember the Amazon outage of 2013, when the retail behemoth went down for 40 minutes.

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Simplify log onboarding: From zero to observability in minutes

Dynatrace

Log ingestion can seem daunting when getting started with Dynatrace, especially when staring at an empty screen in the Logs or Clouds apps. To address any concerns you and your new-to-Dynatrace teams may have regarding log ingestion, we’ve introduced a new and intuitive log onboarding wizard for DynatraceApps. The newly introduced step-by-step guidance streamlines the process, while quick data flow validation accelerates the onboarding experience even for power users.

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Title Launch Observability at Netflix Scale

The Netflix TechBlog

Part 3: System Strategies and Architecture By: VarunKhaitan With special thanks to my stunning colleagues: Mallika Rao , Esmir Mesic , HugoMarques This blog post is a continuation of Part 2 , where we cleared the ambiguity around title launch observability at Netflix. In this installment, we will explore the strategies, tools, and methodologies that were employed to achieve comprehensive title observability atscale.

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Performance Optimization Techniques for Snowflake on AWS

DZone

As organizations scale their data operations in the cloud, optimizing Snowflake performance on AWS becomes crucial for maintaining efficiency and controlling costs. This comprehensive guide explores advanced techniques and best practices for maximizing Snowflake performance, backed by practical examples and implementation strategies.

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Presentation: OpenSearch Cluster Topologies for Cost Saving Autoscaling

InfoQ

Amitai Stern discusses cost-saving autoscaling topologies for OpenSearch. He explains the inherent challenges in autoscaling unstructured data systems like OpenSearch and Elasticsearch, using analogies to illustrate the complexities beyond simply adding nodes. He shares architectural patterns (burst indexes, burst clusters) to optimize resource utilization and handle fluctuating loads effectively.

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Using Barman Cloud Utilities for Backups and WAL Archiving in PostgreSQL

Percona

In this brief blog post, we will talk about Barman cloud utilities, which greatly ease the process of storing backups on cloud platforms like GCP, AWS, Azure, etc.

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AI’s Future: Not Always Bigger

O'Reilly

On May 8, OReilly Media will be hosting Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It a live virtual tech conference spotlighting how AI is already supercharging developers, boosting productivity, and providing real value to their organizations. If youre in the trenches building tomorrows development practices today and interested in speaking at the event, wed love to hear from you by March 12.

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Observability is expanding: Transforming complexity into business opportunity

Dynatrace

Recently, I had the pleasure of speaking with Tiernan Ray for The Technology Letter ( subscribers can read here ) , where we discussed how observability is transforming and how Dynatrace is navigating industry changes.I wanted to take a moment to expandon thekey themes we touched on in our conversation. Observability is no longer just for IT Ops Observability is no longer just about monitoring IT systems.

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Setting Up and Monitoring MongoDB 8 Replica Sets with PMM 3 Using Docker: A Beginner-Friendly Guide

Percona Community

This guide explains how to set up a MongoDB 8 Replica Set and monitor it using PMM 3, all within Docker. We’ll guide you through the steps to create a local environment, configure the necessary components, and connect them for effective monitoring and management. The guide is written in detail for beginners. In the conclusion section there are ready configurations for the experienced.

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React Performance Optimization: Tricks Every Dev Should Know

DZone

Lets face it: weve all been there. You build a sleek React app, only to watch it slow to a crawl as it grows. Buttons lag, pages take forever to load, and users start bouncing. Sound familiar? Ive been in that exact spot debugging performance issues at 2 AM, fueled by coffee and frustration. In this guide, Ill share battle-tested strategies to optimize React apps , sprinkled with real-world war stories and practical examples.

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DeepSeek vs. ChatGPT: Who Leads the AI Revolution?

Official Blog - World Web Technology

An In-Depth Comparison of AI Titans Shaping the Future of Artificial Intelligence. DeepSeek and ChatGPT are powerful models revolutionizing several industries with Artificial Intelligence (AI). ChatGPT is the unique USP that has surpassed their conversational AI and DeepSeek in terms of deep learning, advanced analytics, and other deep learning models.

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Transparent Data Encryption for PostgreSQL Release Candidate is Here!

Percona

PostgreSQL is, without a doubt, one of the most popular open source databases in the world. Why? Well, there are many reasons, but if I had to pick just one, I’d say its extensibility. PostgreSQL isnt just a database; its an ecosystem of extensions that can transform it to tackle any upcoming challenges.

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AI and the Structure of Scientific Revolutions

O'Reilly

Thomas Wolfs blog post The Einstein AI Model is a must-read. He contrasts his thinking about what we need from AI with another must-read, Dario Amodeis Machines of Loving Grace. 1 Wolfs argument is that our most advanced language models arent creating anything new; theyre just combining old ideas, old phrases, old words according to probabilistic models.

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Dynatrace Chief People Officer, Sue Quackenbush, named a Ragan Top Women in HR Awards Honoree

Dynatrace

Were thrilled to announce that Sue Quackenbush, Chief People Officer at Dynatrace, has been named an honoree in Ragans Top Women in HR Awards : Culture Leader category! This prestigious award celebrates exceptional women who are transforming the human resources landscape through innovative strategies, compassionate leadership, and a commitment to creating better workplaces recognizing the value of HR leadership not just for the individuals honored, but their entire organization.

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In S3 simplicity is table stakes

All Things Distributed

From simple object storage to sophisticated table management, builders have always shaped S3's evolution. Andy Warfield discusses why making complex systems simple remains our north star at AWS.

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Modern QA Practices to Enhance Software Reliability

DZone

Imagine a scenario: You are working at breakneck speed to roll out a new IT product or a business-critical update, but quality control workflows lack efficiency. They are mainly manual and performed late in the development cycle. This challenges your ability to cope with pressing deadlines, innovate, and remain competitive, as manual efforts are slow, workflows lack fast and continuous feedback loops, and critical and major issues arise just before the release.

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Join Us Online: Stream About Percona Toolkit for MySQL!

Percona Community

Are you passionate about databases and want to stay on top of the latest advancements in MySQL and Percona Toolkit? You’re in luck! We are excited to invite you to our upcoming online stream, where we’ll delve into some exciting changes and updates. Date: March 27, 2025 Time: 13:30 GMT / 9:30 ET Streaming Live on: LinkedIn and YouTube About the Event Our featured speaker, Sveta Smirnova, Principal Support Engineering Coordinator at Percona, will share her insights on the recent updat

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MongoDB Atlas On-Premise: Challenges and Flexible Alternatives

Percona

If you’re running enterprise applications, you might be facing a common dilemma: cloud solutions offer great features, but regulatory constraints and data sovereignty laws might prevent you from using them fully. In fact, about 60% of enterprises struggle with this exact problem.

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How To Fix Largest Contentful Issues With Subpart Analysis

Smashing Magazine

How To Fix Largest Contentful Issues With Subpart Analysis How To Fix Largest Contentful Issues With Subpart Analysis Matt Zeunert 2025-03-06T10:00:00+00:00 2025-03-06T14:50:25+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear The Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) in Core Web Vitals measures how quickly a website loads from a visitors perspective. It looks at how long after opening a page the largest content element becomes visible.

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Distributed tracing with Dynatrace just got even better

Dynatrace

Get ready to experience a whole new world of limitless tracing power. With our latest enhancements, were transforming the way you work with trace data. The Dynatrace platform now enables comprehensive data exploration and interactive analytics across data sets (trace, logs, events, and metrics)empowering you to solve complex use cases, handle any observability scenario, and gain unprecedented visibility into your systems.

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Think Different

O'Reilly

On May 8, OReilly Media will be hosting Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It a live virtual tech conference spotlighting how AI is already supercharging developers, boosting productivity, and providing real value to their organizations. If youre in the trenches building tomorrows development practices today and interested in speaking at the event, wed love to hear from you by March 12.