The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

We use and contribute to many open-source Python packages, some of which are mentioned below. Open Connect Open Connect is Netflix’s content delivery network (CDN). video streaming) takes place in the Open Connect network. If any of this interests you, check out the jobs site or find us at PyCon.

Open Source 280

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 280

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

A standard Docker container can run anywhere, on a personal computer (for example, PC, Mac, Linux), in the cloud, on local servers, and even on edge devices. Running containers : Docker Engine is a container runtime that runs in almost any environment: Mac and Windows PCs, Linux and Windows servers, the cloud, and on edge devices.

Open Source 308

Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 308

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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Open Source Software Software Social Media 88

Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

If the primary server encounters issues, operations are smoothly transitioned to a standby server with minimal interruption. Key Takeaways PostgreSQL automatic failover enhances high availability by seamlessly switching to standby servers during primary server failures, minimizing downtime, and maintaining business continuity.

Availability 257

Availability Servers Database Open Source 257

DZone

APRIL 30, 2020

I needed basic information on RAM, CPU, Disk, Networking, and I/O to assess the performance bottleneck for the serve. " I was in the search for a straightforward tool that shows me hardware "VM" metrics and allows me to check the logs without ssh into the VM and ideally tool should be Open Source.

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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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Abhishek Tiwari

JANUARY 6, 2018

Here we present a list of 10 open-source Kubernetes tools to make your SRE and Ops teams more effective to achieve their service level objectives. Ark comes with an in-cluster service (Ark server) and CLI (Ark client). Ark server performs the actual backup, validates it and loads backup files in cloud object storage.

Open Source 111

Open Source DevOps Engineering Storage 111

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 2, 2019

This Redis management solution allows startups up to enterprise-level organizations automate their Redis operations on Microsoft Azure dedicated cloud servers, alongside their other open source database deployments, including MongoDB , MySQL and PostgreSQL. PALO ALTO, Calif.,

Azure 37

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Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

We’re equally convinced on both counts, but in this blog article, we’re focusing on why MongoDB is not open source. Let’s start with this: MongoDB is accurately referred to as source-available software. To be clear, we are rock-solid in our stance that MongoDB is not open source.

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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.

Open Source 97

Open Source Database Strategy Hardware 97

Scalegrid

JULY 8, 2019

Are you looking to get started with the world’s most popular open-source database, and wondering how you should setup your MySQL hosting ? Azure Virtual Networks. Azure makes this easy to setup through the use of a Virtual Network (VNET) which can be configured for your MySQL servers.

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Azure Cloud Virtualization Database 219

Scalegrid

APRIL 28, 2020

Our Dedicated Hosting plans are all-inclusive, including all machine, disk, and network costs, as well as 24/7 support. MongoDB is the #3 open source and #1 NoSQL database in the world. See performance tests to determine the impact of the Meltdown CPU kernel patch on your MongoDB servers. Dedicated Hosting. Learn more.

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Azure AWS Database Latency 344

Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2021

The complexity of such deployments has accelerated with the adoption of emerging, open-source technologies that generate telemetry data, which is exploding in terms of volume, speed, and cardinality. Extend your topology mapping to include open-source observability data.

Analytics 246

Analytics Open Source Serverless Architecture 246

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Introducing gnmi-gateway: a modular, distributed, and highly available service for modern network telemetry via OpenConfig and gNMI By: Colin McIntosh, Michael Costello Netflix runs its own content delivery network, Open Connect , which delivers all streaming traffic to our members.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

DevOps platform engineers are responsible for cloud platform availability and performance, as well as the efficiency of virtual bandwidth, routers, switches, virtual private networks, firewalls, and network management. Version control system and source code management with end-to-end DevOps platform and cloud-hosted Git services.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Since December 10, days after a critical vulnerability known as Log4Shell was discovered in servers supporting the game Minecraft, millions of exploit attempts have been made of the Log4j 2 Java library, according to one team tracking the impact, with potential threat to millions more applications and devices across the globe. Dynatrace news.

Internet 262

Internet Internet Games Java 262

Scalegrid

AUGUST 30, 2019

Redis , short for Remote Dictionary Server, is a BSD-licensed, open-source in-memory key-value data structure store written in C language by Salvatore Sanfillipo and was first released on May 10, 2009. Depending on how it is configured, Redis can act like a database, a cache or a message broker. Redis List Use Cases.

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Cache Ecommerce Social Media Database 232

Dynatrace

JANUARY 28, 2021

Organizations that want a high-performance language with a great ecosystem for their applications often use Golang , an open-source programming language. Such additional telemetry data includes user-behavior analytics, code-level visibility, and metadata (including open-source data). TCP Server. // Start TCP server.

Traffic 171

Traffic Open Source Servers Cloud 171

Dynatrace

MARCH 24, 2023

But managing the deployment, modification, networking, and scaling of multiple containers can quickly outstrip the capabilities of development and operations teams. This orchestration includes provisioning, scheduling, networking, ensuring availability, and monitoring container lifecycles. How does container orchestration work?

Infrastructure 192

Infrastructure Open Source Operating System Cloud 192

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

If your application runs on servers you manage, either on-premises or on a private cloud, you’re responsible for securing the application as well as the operating system, network infrastructure, and physical hardware. However, open source software is often a vector for security vulnerabilities.

Cloud 183

Cloud Open Source Architecture Monitoring 183

Dynatrace

JUNE 16, 2022

At the same time, open source software (OSS) libraries now account for more than 70% of most applications’ code base, increasing the risk of application vulnerabilities. RASP capabilities aim to close the gap left by application security testing and network perimeter controls such as web application firewalls (WAFs).

Tuning 229

Tuning Cloud Open Source Network 229

Scalegrid

JANUARY 3, 2020

Prometheus is an open-source software application used for event monitoring and alerting. The MySQL Exporter tool can be installed locally on a MySQL server or centrally on the Prometheus server. Remember to edit the line: Environment=”GOMAXPROCS=1 by replacing 1 with the number of **vcpus** on your server.

Monitoring 164

Monitoring Metrics Servers Database 164

Scalegrid

MARCH 12, 2019

In Part II, we’re introducing you to an alternative open source tool, Replication Manager from 2ndQuadrant, to be closely followed by Part III where we dive into our third alternative, Patroni by Zalando. When a server is configured, it needs to be registered with repmgr using repmgr primary/standby register command.

Availability 147

Availability Servers Open Source Database 147

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. Full context, including application dependencies, network topologies, and assessment of business risk based on vulnerabilities, exposures, and asset value are needed to manage enterprise-wide software risks.

Social Media 193

Social Media Open Source Cloud Media 193

Alex Podelko

AUGUST 18, 2019

But there is an opposite trend to use several layers of different frameworks and libraries which nobody fully understand and what is actually sent to the server remains unknown unless you use recording (or reconstruct it from a detailed log). Make scripting easier (and maintain the existing scripts) is utmost importance here.

Performance Testing 243

Performance Testing Testing Performance Testing Tools 243

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

A set of programming models has emerged to help developers define and train AI models with deep learning; along with open source frameworks that put deep learning in the hands of mere mortals. Some examples of popular deep learning frameworks that we support on AWS include Caffe, CNTK, MXNet, TensorFlow, Theano, and Torch.

AWS 165

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

Each storage server collects statistics about the requests it serves, the data it stores, etc. This increases the cores and network bandwidth available to serve common requests. We also implemented a routing service that sends user requests to the correct servers in the correct tiers. They are about creating the future.

Storage 199

Storage Performance AWS Efficiency 199

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

When software runs in a monolithic stack on on-site servers, observability is manageable enough. OpenTelemetry, the open source observability tool, has emerged as an industry-standard solution for instrumenting application telemetry data to make it observable. OpenTelemetry is a free and open source take on observability.

Metrics 187

Metrics Open Source Traffic Cache 187

Dynatrace

AUGUST 18, 2022

Security vulnerabilities are weaknesses in applications, operating systems, networks, and other IT services and infrastructure that would allow an attacker to compromise a system, steal data, or otherwise disrupt IT operations. For example, an attacker could exploit a misconfigured firewall rule to gain access to servers on your network.

Traffic 169

Traffic Java Network DevOps 169

DZone

MARCH 20, 2024

It allows physical servers to serve as hypervisor hosting machines ( VMs ). Embedded within the Linux kernel, KVM empowers the creation of VMs with their virtualized hardware components, such as CPUs, memory, storage, and network cards, essentially mimicking a machine.

Virtualization 124

Virtualization Hardware Open Source Storage 124

High Scalability

OCTOBER 3, 2019

This Redis management solution allows startups up to enterprise-level organizations automate their Redis operations on Microsoft Azure dedicated cloud servers, alongside their other open source database deployments, including MongoDB , MySQL and PostgreSQL.

Azure 23

Azure Cloud Open Source Cache 23

Dynatrace

APRIL 6, 2022

Endpoints include on-premises servers, Kubernetes infrastructure, cloud-hosted infrastructure and services, and open-source technologies. Not just infrastructure connections, but the relationships and dependencies between containers, microservices , and code at all network layers.

DevOps 236

DevOps Innovation Infrastructure Cloud 236

Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2024

Dynatrace offers a feature-rich agent, Dynatrace OneAgent ® , and an agentless open source approach perfectly tailored for edge-IoT use cases, leveraging OpenTelemetry. To transport our ADS-B application’s JSON log files into our Dynatrace tenant, we’ll leverage an agentless approach using open source software ( OpenTelemetry ).

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IoT Analytics Transportation Metrics 217

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Using event sourcing allows us to implement new developer experience features such as the Schema History view. The schema registry also integrates with our CI/CD systems like Spinnaker to automatically setup cloud networking for DGSs. The DGS framework is planned to be open-sourced in early 2021.

Architecture 256

Architecture Best Practices Engineering Open Source 256

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The Operator also manages configurations across a fleet of Collectors using Open Agent Management Protocol (OpAMP), which is a network protocol for remotely managing large fleets of data collection agents. inject-python: "true" spec: containers: - name: py-otel-server image: otel-python-lab:0.1.0-py-otel-server

Java 212

Java Servers Code Metrics 212

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

In this blog, we will discuss both data and network-level compression offered in MongoDB. We will discuss snappy and zstd for data block and zstd compression in a network. Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB) supports all types of compression and enterprise-grade features for free. I am using PSMDB 6.0.4

Storage 113

Storage Network Open Source Latency 113

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Prometheus is an open-source software toolkit used for event monitoring and alerting. This means Dynatrace isn’t collecting the metrics on the Prometheus server, but directly at the source of truth – the exporters. What is Prometheus? How to collect Prometheus metrics.

Metrics 208

Metrics Infrastructure Database Monitoring 208