The word “innovation” has come to mean various things. For many, it draws up images of great modern innovators. For developers, it’s the driving force behind a day’s work. It’s…
Giving Developers the Tools They Need to Innovate
Making Dev + Ops Possible with Log Management
You know how the saying goes—you can’t optimize what you can’t measure, and you can’t measure what you can’t monitor. Perhaps this isn’t a time-tested proverb just yet, but it…
Application Performance Monitoring: What Should We Be Monitoring? How Should We Be Monitoring?
What Should We Be Monitoring? To effectively begin getting a grasp on your applications performance, you must begin mapping out all the components in the path of your application. It…
Selecting a Winning Project Management Methodology
When it comes to choosing from the various types of project management methodologies, making the selection that is best for your team and the project in question can be far…
My Animosity Toward Artificial Intelligence
In my previous posts, I talked about the basics of AI in relation to network and systems management as well as why I love it. This post isn’t going to…
PostgresConf Silicon Valley
Did you miss us at PostgresConf Silicon Valley in San Jose? Have no fear! Here’s a sneak peek video of Baron Schwartz delivering his talk on database indexing: How to Index…
Think You Don’t Need User Experience Monitoring? Think Again.
Unless your user is actually experiencing a service or website as it’s meant to be experienced, it doesn’t matter if your monitoring tool says it’s up or down. These are…
Directions
My wife called me for the third time, and I could hear that she was working hard to remain calm but was undeniably at the end of her rope. She…
Where Is Your Configuration Source of Truth?
Ask a good server engineer where their server configuration is defined and the answer will likely be something similar to In my Puppet manifests. Ask a network administrator the same thing about…
My Affection for AI
In my last post, I mentioned one of the basic use cases for Artificial Intelligence (AI) in a modern network. AI can be utilized to not only bridge the informational…