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DevOps Wrap-Up

12/15/17 Welcome to the final post in my series on DevOps. If you’ve been following along, you know the content generated several questions. In this post, I will consolidate those …

The Future is Always Bright

12/15/17 In my last couple of posts, I’ve tried to paint a picture of the past and present of database management and monitoring. We’ve seen that good database performance has ever…

Is Compliance Something I Should Be Thinking About?

12/15/17 Over the past 12 months, I’ve heard the word “compliance” thrown around quite a bit. Only now does compliance depend on what department or industry you are in. From ISO to…

Key metrics for PostgreSQL monitoring

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Collecting metrics with PostgreSQL monitoring tools

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How to collect and monitor PostgreSQL data with Datadog

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Committed To Security: SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor and SOC 2 Type 1

12/13/17 Security has always been a priority at SolarWinds® Database Performance Monitor (DPM), and we have architected and built our product for security from the beginning, frequ…

Introducing metric forecasts for predictive monitoring in Datadog

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Introducing Live Process monitoring in Datadog

This article details how Netflix improved the efficiency of collecting and processing live process metrics by 100x. They achieved this by moving from collecting full traces to samp…

The Only Source of Knowledge is Experience…

12/06/17 The title of this post is a quote that might be (or not be) from Albert Einstein. I first thought the title of the post would be something like: “why root cause analysis i…

5 More Ways I Can Steal Your Data: Hire People Who Lack Empathy

12/06/17 In this last post of my 5 More Ways I Can Steal Your Data series, I focus on my belief that all data security comes down to empathy. Yes, that one trait that we in technol…

Non-IT File Sharing and HIPAA Implications

12/06/17 When I first considered writing this post about possible HIPAA violations, I could clearly imagine how non-IT compliant file sharing could cause issues with HIPAA complian…