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Eyes Wide Open: Visibility is Key to Cloud Migration
Migrating to the cloud is smart but it’s not always easy. It can be a complicated process requiring a substantial investment of time and resources. Yet the benefits make the…
Cloud Adoption Myths and How to Deal With Them

Cloud adoption is no longer a question of “if” but “how fast.” Yet for many organizations, the journey to the cloud is anything but straightforward. As businesses strive to modernize legacy systems and embrace the agility of platforms like AWS, they often encounter a tangled web of complexity, visibility gaps, and operational silos.

Smart Technology in the Service Desk: What Does it Mean?
In today’s service desk environment, a system that can handle requests is an important part of the daily operations of the organization. Providing excellent services manifests positive results, in the…
Numeric Optimization in Golang With Nelder-Mead and Gonum
March 12, 2018
Database
Numeric optimization is a set of techniques for fitting a function to a dataset by iteratively refining estimates. Numeric optimization is one way to do things like curve-fitting and parametric…
Setting Up Multi-Factor Authentication With the AWS CLI
January 29, 2018
Database
As part of achieving SOC-2 certification, we had to implement stricter requirements around AWS authentication. Database Performance Monitor has had multi-factor authentication (MFA) for access to the AWS web-app console…
Slow Queries? Move Fast to Fix Them
January 17, 2018
Database
What Are the Effects of Slow Queries? Slow queries can have serious negative impacts on your business. The impacts will vary depending on your architecture, industry, or application, but the…
The Basics of Sharding in MongoDB
September 6, 2017
Database
Sharding is a mechanism widely used in today’s most popular database systems, an effective way to divide, categorize, and organize data into manageable chunks. In some database types, such as…
An Introduction to MongoDB Replication and Replica Sets
August 25, 2017
Database
Replication is a process common to virtually all modern-day database systems. As you very likely know, it can be a complex subject, especially when dealing with nuances that vary from…
Deciding Which Storage Engine Is Right for You: WiredTiger
July 24, 2017
Database
We’ve  written several articles about the history and advantages of MongoDB’s storage engines, explaining why WiredTiger replaced MMAPv1 as the default engine and the contexts in which MMAPv1 might still…
Exponential Smoothing for Time Series Forecasting
June 22, 2017
Database
Time series anomaly detection is a complicated problem with plenty of practical methods. It’s easy to find yourself getting lost in all of the topics it encompasses. Learning them is…
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