How to Build a Probabilistic Sketch
04/13/16 Last month, we published our newest, free ebook, Sampling a Stream of Events With a Probabilistic Sketch, examining the way that SolarWinds® Database Performance Monitor u…
04/13/16 Last month, we published our newest, free ebook, Sampling a Stream of Events With a Probabilistic Sketch, examining the way that SolarWinds® Database Performance Monitor u…
03/29/16 As Data Platform Engineers, we are responsible for maintaining the Availability of data to those that are authorized to access it. We have many tools available to us in or…
03/25/16 Sylvia Botros, Sendgrid’s lead DBA, recently told us about one of the ways her teams have found unique value in SolarWinds® Database Performance Monitor. “Engineering mana…
03/18/16 There are good and bad ways to select a sample from a stream of events. Depending on how you do it, the resulting sample might be biased or incomplete in various ways. In …
03/03/16 In this series, I’ve tried to help you see the importance of SQL Server® monitoring, and also understand what that monitoring is telling you. So far, we’ve looked at how s…
02/23/16 Sometimes, when working with a top-of-the-line monitoring tool, having access to the best possible visibility, granularity, and reliability is simply not enough. Sure, tho…
01/27/16 We’re excited to share Anomaly Detection for Monitoring a new, free eBook written by Preetam Jinka and Baron Schwartz. In the eBook, published in collaboration with Ruxit …
01/19/16 In 2016, we published our eBook Everything You Need to Know About Queueing Theory, and as part of its launch, we blogged about one way (of the many) queueing theory has re…
01/13/16 Over at the Percona Performance Blog, Vadim recently published benchmark results for Apache Spark, and the shape of the graphs caught my eye. Here’s one of Vadim’s charts:…
12/21/15 We all want our systems to have high availability, but sometimes the exact meaning of “high availability” isn’t very clearly defined. However, availability — like scalabil…
12/16/15 About a year and half ago I published a blog post about ChatOps at VividCortex (if you’re unfamiliar with ChatOps, that original post still serves as a good primer). At th…
12/05/15 We’ve talked a lot about the high-resolution data we capture, but if you haven’t experienced it yourself, it might be a little abstract. Here, look at the difference betwe…