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Raff Poltronieri

Raff Poltronieri

<span style="font-weight: 400">In IT from 1996, Raff Poltronieri started his journey as a system administration learning the basics in the field, 'till now, a Cloud Solutions Architect for one of the most important Italian service integrator offering cloud services, connectivity, and telecommunications. VCP6-DCV, studying for VCAP, he has some other certifications in AWS, Zerto, and Tintri. Actively involved in local VMUG's activities, this year is the third one that he received a vExpert award. Lucky enough for his job being his hobby too.</span>

The Latest Posts Featuring Raff Poltronieri

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.
Applications Aren’t an Island
June 21, 2018
Monitoring and Observability Network
In my last post, I talked about microservices and how their deep connection can offer a quality application. Now, I want to move up a layer. Not only between microservices, but…
Adopting a Distributed Tracing Architecture
June 21, 2018
Monitoring and Observability
In a distributed tracing architecture, we need to define the microservices that work inside it. We also need to distinguish the “component” behavior from the “user” behavior and experience—similar words,…
Customizing Logwatch for Sysadmin Needs
June 18, 2018
Database
Logwatch is essentially a system log analyzer and reporter. It elaborates logs that are simply collected by syslog. This kind of evolution is simplifying the daily job of modern system…
Log Analysis Tools Review: Syslog, Filtering the Most Relevant Events
June 15, 2018
Monitoring and Observability Security
Who’s passed more than a weekend going almost blind because something in your didn’t work as it should, and it produced, hopefully, thousands of lines of error messages, almost all…
A New Approach to Cloud-Native Applications and How They Could and Should Replace the Legacy Ones
June 14, 2018
Applications Monitoring and Observability
“In the beginning was the word” … oops, “the cloud.” Long ago “cloud” was a buzzword, especially when it was a cool word that one knew exactly what it meant.…