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Distributed and Diverse: The New Reality of Modern Data Persistence

01/23/15 We create applications in an age of simple, powerful, flexible databases that do magic for us. There’s a large variety of modern databases that supply just what’s needed f…

Securing JSON APIs With Wrapper Objects

01/21/15 Security is a top priority. Leading companies such as Zappos, Dyn, and Etsy use Database Performance Monitor (DPM), a cloud-based database performance management service t…

Go’s Connection Pool, Retries, and Timeouts

01/19/15 This is a story of intermittent 500 Internal Server errors from APIs, that ended up being caused by a hardcoded constant in Go’s database/sql package. I’ll mostly spare yo…

Monitor MySQL Database Users with VividCortex

01/08/15 VividCortex now supports per-user metrics in Top Queries, so you can monitor MySQL database user activity in detail. By changing the Rank menu from Queries to Users you ca…

New reCaptcha support in angular-recaptcha

12/23/14 Google released a new reCaptcha that is “tough on bots, easy on humans.” It is really simple to use, and it has greatly improved the security against robots and other hack…

Inspeqtor Process Monitoring with Datadog

Please provide me with the article "A new Host Map for modern infrastructure"! I need the text of the article to be able to summarize it for you. Just paste the article content h…

Find Queries That Lack Indexes

12/17/14 It’s an ancient tradition amongst MySQL DBAs to analyze slow query log files and sort the results by the so-called “index ratio” to find badly indexed queries. The “index …

Introducing JMX custom tagging

Datadog has released official API client libraries for both Java and Go, simplifying integration with their monitoring and security platform for developers using those languages. T…

In Case You Missed It – Building a Time-Series Database in MySQL

12/16/14 In this webinar, Baron Schwartz explains how VividCortex has used MySQL to support a large-scale, high-velocity time-series database in the AWS cloud. If you did not have …

Monitoring Apache processes with Datadog

This article details how to monitor an Apache web server using Datadog, a monitoring and analytics platform. It explains how to install the Datadog agent on your server and leverag…

Introducing Availability Monitoring

Datadog's Terraform provider v4.0.0 introduces significant improvements including enhanced resource import capabilities and support for new Datadog features like Serverless Monitor…

MySQL Error Codes Out Of Context

12/11/14 In the wrong context, almost anything can be funny, and MySQL’s error codes are no exception. A few weeks ago, things got a little loopy as we discovered some definitions …