The hype around blockchain technology is reaching a fever pitch these days. Visit any tech conference and you’ll find more than a handful of vendors offering it in one form…
No, You Don’t Need a Blockchain
You Are Here – Endpoint & Application Security
So far in this series we have reviewed a few popular and emerging models and frameworks. These tools are meant to help you make sense of where you are and how…
Don’t Get Bitten by Schrödinger’s Backup
There are two sayings you can find in virtually every article about data protection: “If your data doesn’t exist in at least two places, then it doesn’t exist,” and “If…
Giving Developers the Tools They Need to Innovate
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…
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…