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Max Mortillaro

Max Mortillaro

<span style="font-weight: 400">Massimiliano "Max" Mortillaro is a Partner & Principal Analyst at TECHunplugged.io. He's a former 5-star VMware vExpert, one of the re-founders of the Czech Republic VMware User Group, and its former leader. He's an advocate for online security, privacy, encryption, and digital rights. Like his name very wrongfully hints, Max is French and lives with his family in Prague, Czech Republic. Besides being a failed sportsman, he is a general bon vivant and the impersonation of your average Hobbit in full size.</span>

The Latest Posts Featuring Max Mortillaro

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
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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.
Knowing Which Services Are Critical to a Business Service
March 6, 2018
Monitoring and Observability
In the age of exploration, cartographers used to navigate around the world and map the coastlines of unexplored continents. The coastline of IT, and moreover the inner landscapes and features,…
A Sysadmin’s Guide to Spaghetti Cabling: Bridging the Gap between IT Operations and Business
February 20, 2018
Monitoring and Observability
No, it’s not the latest culinary invention from a famous Italian chef: spaghetti cabling (a nice wording for cabling inferno) is a sour dish we’d rather not eat. Beyond this…
Putting on your X-Ray Goggles to Visualize the Business Services Spectrum
February 7, 2018
Monitoring and Observability
I love watching those modern movies where IT works magically. In these movies, any average Joe with access to a computer or terminal can instantly access anything with seamless effort.…
Business Services and their Challenges in Complex Environments
January 24, 2018
Infrastructure Monitoring and Observability
Business services and infrastructure services have divergent interests and requirements: business services are not focusing on IT. They may leverage IT, but their role is to be a core enabler…
Monitoring Cloud from On-Prem
January 9, 2018
Monitoring and Observability
The use of cloud technology and services–especially public cloud–has become nearly ubiquitous. For example, it has made its way into even the most conservative organizations. Despite the fact that some…