Queueing Theory: Faster Trains Might Make London Underground Slower
10/10/15 Let’s take a look at a great real-world example that effectively illustrates how queuing theory can be unintuitive even in situations that seem simple. A recent BBC report…
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The Premise of Premises: All Clouds Are Not Created Equal
10/09/15 If you take one thing away from this article, it will be that you will have a far better fundamental understanding of the premise of your premises. The title of this artic…
A Look into the Pi-Shaped Expert Model
10/07/15 So you’ve started planning your career using a VCDX skillset. Continuing on that same train of thought, I want to walk you through an additional concept that might help yo…
Mastering the Sort Buffer and sort_buffer_size
10/02/15 The sort buffer, which is controlled by the sortbuffersize setting, is probably one of the most-discussed MySQL settings. Interestingly, in many cases it has a lot less po…
Are You Getting Full Benefit of your IT Monitoring Tools?
10/01/15 In both cases we thought we were covered and our monitoring systems had our back. As it turns out, that’s a more common situation than it should be, and following a few be…
Monitor ELB performance with Datadog
This Datadog article details how to effectively monitor AWS Graviton3-powered EC2 instances. It explains how to leverage Datadog's auto-discovery and pre-built integrations to gain…
How to collect AWS ELB metrics
This Datadog article explains how to monitor your Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs) to ensure application availability and performance. It details setting up Datadog to collect key ELB…
Top ELB health and performance metrics
This Datadog article explains how to effectively monitor your Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs) to ensure application availability and performance. It details key ELB metrics like requ…
Troubleshooting SQL Server, Part 1 : Do You Use These Shortcuts?
09/30/15 In the popular white paper entitled Troubleshooting SQL Server Wait Statistics, I take you through three scenarios in which a wait stats-only approach is insufficient or e…
Datadog Guide to AWS re:Invent 2015
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Introducing outlier detection in Datadog
Datadog's new metric forecasts allow users to proactively identify potential issues by predicting future metric values. By leveraging machine learning, these forecasts help teams u…
Outlier detection in Datadog: A look at the algorithms
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