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What Is Concurrency in a Database?

01/28/19 Databases are confusing! Not only are they complicated bits of software, but database jargon is really complicated. Part of this comes from the number of words with multip…

Are You “Flying Blind?”

01/28/19 Would you travel on an airplane if the flight crew were “flying blind?” What does it mean to be “flying blind?” Freedictionary.com defines it as “to do something based on …

Public Cloud – To Migrate or Not: That is the Question

01/28/19 Public clouds provide enormous scale and elasticity. Combined with a consumption-based model and instant deployment methodologies, they provide a platform that is extremel…

Subquery Support

Prometheus 2.7 introduces subqueries, allowing for range queries *within* a query – a previously unavailable feature. This eliminates the need to create recording rules for complex…

Real World Experiences of Hybrid IT

01/25/19 Over the coming weeks, I will be writing a series of posts on my varied experiences with hybrid IT. These experiences come from working on countless projects over the last…

How Business Leaders Can Put the “Dev” Back in DevOps

01/25/19 The trouble with troubleshooting? When it’s the No. 1 activity on which tech professionals spend their time, there’s little of it left for development and innovation. As b…

2018 year in review

Datadog had a productive 2018, highlighted by the release of a completely rewritten Datadog Agent (version 6) built with Go. They significantly expanded their platform with new fea…

IT Operations: Coping with Cloud

01/24/19 You’ll encounter terms like “dinosaur” and “curmudgeon” when bloggers refer to IT professionals who have decades of experience in the data center, but have not yet mastere…

Transforming Traditional ITIL Into Agile ITIL

01/24/19 Keeping your ITSM efforts in front of the rapid changes, both within and outside of your organization can be even more challenging if you steadfastly hang on to rigid fram…

How to Clean Dirty Data – The Life of a Data Janitor

01/24/19 If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my decades as a data professional, it’s this: Things aren’t what you think they are. Data’s ultimate purpose is to drive decisions. Bu…

Your ORM and SELECT FOR UPDATE

01/23/19 What’s an ORM? If you’re not familiar with ORMs, an ORM is an Object-Relational Mapper, which helps you map objects in your code to tables in your database, without writin…

Moving Toward More Proactive Cybersecurity

01/23/19 As the cyberlandscape continues to evolve, so do the methods of attack used by cybercriminals. And it isn’t just outsiders you have to worry about; insiders can be respons…