Joey D'Antoni

Database 102 – Why Is My Query Slow?

02/14/20 As a database administrator (aka DBA, or Default Blame Acceptor) throughout my career, I’ve worked with a myriad of developers, system administrators, and business users w…

Defining an SLO – Understanding Business Needs

06/20/18 Building a monitoring and alerting system should always be driven by your business needs. This is an ongoing debate between the IT organization–which tends to focus on gra…

After It Broke: Executing Good Postmortems

06/19/18 No matter how much automation, redundancy, and protection you build into your systems, thing are always going to break. It might be a change breaking an API to another sys…

Choosing What to Monitor – Understanding Key Metrics

06/18/18 Monitoring has always been a loosely defined and somewhat controversial term in IT organizations. IT professionals have very strong opinions about the tools they use, beca…

How DevOps Changes Monitoring

06/13/18 One of the most interesting changes that I have observed in my career is Microsoft shifting from just being a development organization to truly becoming a DevOps team, in …

Balancing Stability and Agility

06/11/18 “The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity.” C.A.R. Hoare, Turing Award lecture. Software and computers in general are inherently dynamic and not of…