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How to Select the Right Queries to Optimize

04/18/18 Why is selecting the right queries to optimize so important? There are several reasons. Penny-Wise, Pound-Foolish Look at the forest, not just the trees, and optimize glob…

Numeric Optimization in Golang With Nelder-Mead and Gonum

03/12/18 Numeric optimization is a set of techniques for fitting a function to a dataset by iteratively refining estimates. Numeric optimization is one way to do things like curve-…

Announcement: p99 Percentile Metrics

03/01/18 I’m pleased to announce that SolarWinds® Database Performance Monitor (DPM) offers 99th percentile metrics to help understand latency outliers in a query workload. These m…

How To Buy Software 2018

02/26/18 Buying software solutions for your company is a skill just like any other business practice. To be effective at purchasing it is necessary to have a clear understanding of…

Setting Up Multi-Factor Authentication With the AWS CLI

01/29/18 As part of achieving SOC-2 certification, we had to implement stricter requirements around AWS authentication. Database Performance Monitor has had multi-factor authentica…

It’s Inevitable. Your Database Will Fail

01/23/18 Databases fail. No one can promise 100% uptime, it’s impossible. Whether the database is large, small, on-premise or cloud-based, all have the potential to fail. This coul…

Slow Queries? Move Fast to Fix Them

01/17/18 What Are the Effects of Slow Queries? Slow queries can have serious negative impacts on your business. The impacts will vary depending on your architecture, industry, or a…

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…

The Basics of Sharding in MongoDB

09/06/17 Sharding is a mechanism widely used in today’s most popular database systems, an effective way to divide, categorize, and organize data into manageable chunks. In some dat…

An Introduction to MongoDB Replication and Replica Sets

08/25/17 Replication is a process common to virtually all modern-day database systems. As you very likely know, it can be a complex subject, especially when dealing with nuances th…

The 5 Principles that a Performance Management Service Should Follow

08/17/17 I’ve recently taken some time to think about what it means for our organization to operate and identify as a “performance management service.” It’s not as simple as placin…

Throughput Is the One Server Metric to Rule Them All

08/04/17 If you’ve ever been responsible for maintaining the performance of a busy app or website, there’s a good chance the task often felt complex, with far too many metrics. Sin…