Inspecting Index Usage In MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB
02/08/19 In my recent post about the Left-Prefix Index Rule, I explained how queries can use all or part of a compound (multi-column) index. Knowing what makes an index fully usabl…
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Cloud Migration Is No Drama – Or Is It?
02/08/19 Great! You’ve made the decision to migrate to the cloud. What should be the first step towards that goal? The answer is: defining a cloud migration team that understands t…
Seeing IT Differently: Why IT Vendors Must Evolve
02/07/19 Companies don’t live forever, and when we see one go, we wonder what they did wrong, and more importantly, wonder how we avoid the same fate. The truth of the matter is, a…
Why You Should Start Seeing IT Differently
02/07/19 How new models could potentially shake up the future of IT While technology innovation has changed the world, the truth is the same big vendors have been running the same …
Do I Need an Enterprise Management System?
02/07/19 With most projects, budgets are a major factor in deciding what to use. This can make initial decisions relatively easy or increasingly difficult. In the market, you’ll fi…
Migrating to the Cloud — SolarWinds TechPod 001
02/07/19 With SolarWinds, IT pros are discovering a smarter way to manage apps, servers, databases, and hybrid clouds. The shift starts here. It can be a struggle to find the right…
The Cybersecurity Threat Is Coming from Inside the Business – A Quick Guide to Insider Threats
02/06/19 When you hire someone, you expect them to care about your business. You want them to take care of your intellectual property and data. Unfortunately, not everyone has the …
Interview with Hostinger
Hostinger, a hosting company with 30 million clients, transitioned from a Nagios/Cacti/Ganglia monitoring stack to Prometheus in 2015 to improve automation and scalability. This sw…
Performance monitoring with OpenTracing, OpenCensus, and OpenMetrics
The article discusses how to effectively trace requests through asynchronous, event-driven architectures using distributed tracing. It explains the difference between parent-child …
Real World Experiences of Hybrid IT – Part 2
02/05/19 My previous post provided a short introduction to the series. In this post, I’m going to be focusing on public cloud. I’ll cover my day-to-day experiences in using the maj…
The Left-Prefix Index Rule
02/05/19 There’s an important heuristic in database indexing that I call the left-prefix rule. It helps you understand whether the database will be able to make the best use of a m…
The Changing ITSM Landscape: Focusing on Employee Satisfaction
02/05/19 Learn why your IT strategy should shift focus and include customer experience and employee service management techniques. The post The Changing ITSM Landscape: Focusing on…