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Jonathan Davis

Jonathan Davis (JD) works as a wireless engineer for an enterprise organization. He has 20 years of experience in IT across many specialties. He is a co-host and producer of CenterFreqs and blogs at subnetwork.me.

When he isn’t behind a computer, he spends a lot of time outside gardening or exploring the world around him, often with a camera in his hand.

The Latest Posts Featuring Jonathan Davis

The High-Performance DBA: Breaking the Burnout Cycle in Modern Database Teams

In this article, Kevin Kline introduces The High-Performance DBA webcast series, drawing on insights from our recent State of Database Report to explain why DBA burnout is rising and how teams can move beyond constant reactivity.

April 1, 2026
Database
The High-Performance DBA: Breaking the Burnout Cycle in Modern Database Teams
Man with hand to face in despair, holding a laptop.
IT pro looks at computer and works
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.
3 IoT Protocols to Watch in 2020
June 1, 2020
Monitoring and Observability Network
As we roll into the next decade and IoT becomes commonplace in most organizations, requirements for connectivity will change. Over the last decade of Wi-Fi, we’ve seen a push for…
CBRS and Unlicensed LTE
March 23, 2020
Monitoring and Observability Network
When considering network choices for IoT devices, a common choice is LTE. As 5G deployments cover more areas, technologies like Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) will become available for adoption.…
Waggle Dance Yourself to Automation
March 16, 2020
Monitoring and Observability Network
ZigBee, named for the waggle dance bees use to communicate, is one of the oldest, and most often used protocols, but how much do you know about it? ZigBee operates…
Is IPv6 Too Big for an IoT Tiny Home?
February 26, 2020
Monitoring and Observability Network
Read about wireless IoT protocols, and one feature will stick out above the rest. 6LoWPAN is a typical client addressing protocol. But what is it? The “6” gives us an…
2020—The Rise of the Machines?
February 19, 2020
Monitoring and Observability
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the Internet of Things recently. Well, I’ve spent the last seven years thinking about IoT. Seven years ago, I bought my first…