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Adam Hammond

Adam Hammond
Lead Cloud Consultant

Adam Hammond

An SRE with hands-on expertise in optimizing and maintaining high-performing systems.

The Latest Posts Featuring Adam Hammond

Inside the Black Box: Bridging the Database Observability Gap
March 27, 2026
Database

Over the past 15 years, Agile and DevOps have accelerated application delivery, enabling faster, more reliable releases. Yet the database layer often remains a blind spot for observability and performance monitoring.

In this article, Kevin Kline shows why closing the database observability gap is critical to improving performance, efficiency, and resilience for DBAs, developers, and the businesses that depend on their data.

Error Budgets and their Dependencies
February 3, 2021
Incident Response
In our last few articles, we’ve discussed SLOs and how important picking them correctly can make or break for your application’s performance. Today we’re going to cover error budgets, which are…
Choosing SLOs that users need, not the ones you want to provide
September 30, 2020
Incident Response
Service Level Objectives (SLOs) are a powerful operational tool that uses metric-based targets to constrain activities that may have a negative impact on users (such as maintenance or failed deployments).…
Keeping your teams and customers in the loop during downtime
August 12, 2020
Incident Response
Communication is key. This is true in all aspects of life, and it especially applies to managing critical incidents in your company. Managing communication effectively with your customers can ensure…