At some point, your first storage system will be “full.” I’m writing it as “full” because the system might not actually be 100% occupied with data at that exact point…
Jon Klaus
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Inside the Black Box: Bridging the Database Observability Gap
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.
Growing Beyond Your First Storage System
When is a Storage System Full?
When designing the underlying storage infrastructure for a set of applications, several metrics are important. First, there’s capacity. How much storage do you need? This is a metric that’s well…
Software Updates in the IT Stack: (Not) a Game of Jenga
In my last post, I talked about upgrading storage systems. More specifically, how to determine the right upgrade interval for your storage systems. What the previous post did not cover…
Paving the Road to Your Storage System
A storage system on its own is not useful. Sure, it can store data, but how are you going to put any data on it? Or read back the data…
The Software Arms Race: Do You Even Upgrade?
After you’ve installed your new storage systems and migrated your data onto them, life slows down a bit. Freshly installed systems shouldn’t throw any hardware errors in the first stages…