Recent Articles by Kevin Kline

The High-Performance DBA: Total Recall, Part 2: SQL Server Memory Troubleshooting, Plan Cache, and Query Patterns

This article explores the primary causes of SQL Server memory pressure, specifically focusing on pla...

The High-Performance DBA: Total Recall, Part 1: SQL Server Memory Basics and Best Practices

This article emphasizes that while SQL Server is highly efficient at managing memory, DBAs must proa...

Database Storage Optimization for the High-Performance DBA

This article highlights how often overlooked SQL Server storage configurations are a major contribut...

The High-Performance DBA: Breaking the Burnout Cycle in Modern Database Teams

This article highlights the rising issue of burnout among Database Administrators (DBAs) due to incr...

Inside the Black Box: Bridging the Database Observability Gap

This article highlights a critical “observability gap” in modern software development, where dat...

The Wide World of Open Data

This article introduces the concept of Open Data as an extension of the Open Source Software movemen...

The Big Players in Open Source

07/31/25 Perhaps you know SolarWinds as one of the market’s leading IT observability and monitorin...

Reliability In Cloud Computing: AWS vs Azure vs GCP Strategy Comparison

07/18/25 That’s where the Well-Architected Framework (WAF) comes in. All three hyperscalers have c...

In Praise of Maintenance: Strategies to Conquer Technical Debt

04/25/25 We’re all fighting the silent killer of limited IT budgets and tight application developm...

Is the SaaS Era Coming to an End?

01/14/25 Forbes recently took up Lessing’s claim in an article entitled The End of the SaaS Era: R...