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An Overview of TCPCopy for Beginners

DZone

Therefore, real online traffic is crucial for server-side testing. TCPCopy [1] is an open-source traffic replay tool that has been widely adopted by large enterprises. It is now difficult to rely solely on the personal experience of developers or testers to cover all possible business scenarios.

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Title Launch Observability at Netflix Scale

The Netflix TechBlog

Accurately Reflecting Production Behavior A key part of our solution is insights into production behavior, which necessitates our requests to the endpoint result in traffic to the real service functions that mimics the same pathways the traffic would take if it came from the usualcallers. We call this capability TimeTravel.

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Kubernetes vs Docker: What’s the difference?

Dynatrace

This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. Docker Engine is built on top containerd , the leading open-source container runtime, a project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (DNCF). What is Docker? What is Kubernetes?

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Monitoring Web Servers Should Never Be Complex

DZone

For example, you can monitor the behavior of your applications, the hardware usage of your server nodes, or even the network traffic between servers. One prominent solution is the open-source tool Nagios which allows you to monitor hardware in every detail.

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Powering the Web: Two Decades of Open Source Publishing With WordPress and MySQL

Percona

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. MySQL was founded in 1995 and went open source in 2000.

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Optimizing Server Management With HAProxy’s Advanced Health Checks

DZone

This open-source software, lauded for its reliability and high performance, is a vital tool in the arsenal of network administrators, adept at managing web traffic across diverse server environments. When traffic to a website or application increases, HAProxy can seamlessly bring more servers online to handle the load.

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From Proprietary to Open Source: The Complete Guide to Database Migration

Percona

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.