Great Advice on Monitoring Amazon RDS For MySQL From Datadog
10/21/15 Our friends at Datadog just published an insanely great three part series on monitoring Amazon RDS for MySQL using Datadog. You should go read that now. Full disclosure, I…
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Windows Guest Licensing: To KMS or Not?
10/20/15 To better combat software piracy, Microsoft introduced License Activation with Windows XP/Server 2003; however, activation was pretty much implied and automatic if you had…
The Challenges of Network Virtualization Technologies
10/20/15 Network virtualization, software defined network (SDN), and network function virtualization (NFV) have taken the communication industry by storm. They are no longer buzzwo…
How to Prevent a Data Breach from SQL Injection Attacks
10/16/15 The average total cost of a data breach right now is $3.79 million, according to the 2015 Cost of Data Breach Study: Global Analysis. Cyber attacks are one of the top reas…
Looking Backward to Look Forward
10/15/15 “Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past” -unspecified “wise men” quoted by Niccolò Machiavelli With so many articles out there telling me how SDN will …
How to Explain Virtualization to Newbies
10/15/15 In the world of enterprise architecture, many parts of our daily conversations are taken for granted. We talk about virtualization, vMotion®, Storage vMotion, Replication,…
What If You Can’t Trace End-to-End?
10/15/15 A lot of monitoring systems have a goal of end-to-end tracing, from “click to disk” or something similar. This is usually implemented by adding some kind of tracing inform…
Monitoring: How and Why We Do It
10/14/15 Put simply, we monitor to find and fix problems before our customers and users do, so they’re not tempted to go somewhere else for their purchases, or take our names in va…
Queueing Theory: Faster Trains Might Make London Underground Slower
10/10/15 Let’s take a look at a great real-world example that effectively illustrates how queuing theory can be unintuitive even in situations that seem simple. A recent BBC report…
The Premise of Premises: All Clouds Are Not Created Equal
10/09/15 If you take one thing away from this article, it will be that you will have a far better fundamental understanding of the premise of your premises. The title of this artic…
A Look into the Pi-Shaped Expert Model
10/07/15 So you’ve started planning your career using a VCDX skillset. Continuing on that same train of thought, I want to walk you through an additional concept that might help yo…
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…