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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…

Selecting Queries for Optimization

09/25/15 Query optimization can feel like an overwhelming task. Where to start? In this blog post, we’ll discuss how to select which queries you really should optimize. This is a s…

Brainiac Corner with Ryn Daniels

09/15/15 Ryn Daniels is an operations engineer at Etsy who got her start in programming with TI-80 calculators back when Geocities was still cool, and these days has opinions on th…

A Database Upgrade Story: Cassandra 2.0

08/19/15 Today’s guest post is brought to you by Mikhail Panchenko from the Opsmatic team. Thank you for sharing, and we hope others find it helpful! A Real Life Database Upgrade S…

The Fine Data of Fine Art

08/19/15 Here at SolarWinds, it’s clear to us that proper database monitoring is “an art.” Beyond simple, raw power, navigating and understanding a database takes finesse, insight,…

Streaming Music Services and Databases

07/29/15 The average American consumer isn’t usually interested in “buying” a big database. But thanks to the recent boom in the popularity of subscription music services like Spot…

JMX Monitoring Best Practices

07/13/15 Monitoring Java management extensions (JMX) may seem daunting, but they are completely necessary for application and network management. They connect to remote clients and…

SolarWinds® Database Performance Monitor Now Supports Heroku

06/23/15 In November, Database Performance Monitor introduced support for databases hosted on Amazon RDS. In the spirit of monitoring all of the databases on all of the platforms, …

The Strategic Importance of Database Administration

06/17/15 If you draw a diagram of information flow and interaction amongst teams and processes in IT, you’ll probably find that although some parts of the organization are “leaf” o…

Siesta – RESTful Services Made Simple in Go

06/01/15 All of our services (external REST APIs and internal services) are written in Go. Like others, we wanted to factor out repeated code, but found it hard to do without makin…

The Five Stages of Debugging

05/22/15 Because it’s Friday afternoon and you may have had a long week, our brainiacs present… The Five Stages Of Debugging: Stage One. Denial – “What do you mean it’s broken!? Th…

Consul for Cluster Health Monitoring

05/22/15 If you’re not familiar with Consul, it’s what I call a cluster management tool. It’s composed of a handful of features such as “Service Discovery,” “Key Value Store,” “DNS…