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Cost Optimization Strategies for Managing Large-Scale Open-Source Databases

DZone

An open-source database is your best bet for many reasons. As organizations are looking for more and more open-source products to run their enterprise business, this gives them greater flexibility and cost-effectiveness. Most organizations are now adopting open-source databases for some projects.

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Open Source and Flawed Foundations

Percona

I have always been a big advocate of “Foundation”-run open source projects as being better compared to single-vendor projects, where there is a risk of a vendor unilaterally changing licenses or taking other “hostile” steps towards project users and the community and their reliance on the project’s open source nature.

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Simplifying Multi-Cloud Observability With Open Source

DZone

Gartner predicts by 2028, 50% of enterprises will utilize the cloud. The growth has also seen an increase in different strategies for organizations to use the cloud. Initially, organizations were completely on-prem, then they were hybrid where some workloads were still on-prem but some were migrated to the cloud.

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Abandonware in Popular Open Source Databases

Percona

Inspired by this comment in the Hacker News discussion, I posted polls on my LinkedIn network about the tendency (or perception of tendency) to abandon features without deprecating them in some of the most popular open source databases – MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL.

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Three ways to optimize open source contributions

Dynatrace

Because open source software (OSS) is taking over the world, optimizing open source contributions is becoming an essential competitive strategy. However, open source is not a panacea. These considerations are important if developers want to maximize the impact of their contributions to open source projects.

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A Modern Open-Source Technology That Conquers ACH Batch Processing

DZone

One way to do this is by changing from proprietary tools-driven software development to open-source technology and automation, which eliminates licensing fees. With open-source software handling of ACH files, companies can save hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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Building an Open-Source Observability Toolchain

DZone

Open-source software (OSS) has had a profound impact on modern application delivery. This is an article from DZone's 2022 Performance and Site Reliability Trend Report. For more: Read the Report.