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Connect to Windows Azure Virtual Machine Using SSMS

12/18/13 In 2013, Microsoft made it available for customers to utilize virtual machines running in Windows Azure. This allowed customers to run an on-premises version of SQL Server…

Multitick: multiple-subscriber time.Ticker in Go

12/17/13 Many of our agent programs have several independent worker routines that all need to be timed on clock ticks, sometimes with a specific time offset. We recently open-sourc…

More metrics, more visibility with the new Datadog Agent

The article details how the authors drastically reduced the size of their Go Agent binaries—by up to 77%—through a combination of techniques. These included upgrading to the latest…

AWS re:Invent talk: Instrumenting application stacks in a dynamically scaling environment

Please provide me with the article text! I need the content of "Highlights from AWS re:Invent 2025: Making sense of applied AI, trust, and going faster" to be able to summarize it …

Analysis of PayPal’s Node-vs-Java benchmarks

12/09/13 I was interested in the data shown in PayPal’s blog post on switching from Java to Node.js, for two reasons. First, at a glance both sets of benchmark data looked very cle…

Changing Default Database File Locations in SQL Server

12/06/13 When you create a database in SQL Server and do not specify a file location for your data and log files, SQL Server will rely on the default locations as defined in the se…

How to write Go packages coders will love

12/03/13 This post was featured in our July 2015 anthology of most popular SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor (DPM) blog posts of all time. One of the patterns I’ve found in t…

5 Things You Didn’t Know About SQL Agent

11/27/13 Microsoft SQL Server comes with a boatload of additional components. One component is the SQL Agent. The purpose of the SQL Agent is to serve as a job scheduler. Many expe…

Your entire AWS infrastructure's health at a glance

This Datadog article details how to effectively monitor Amazon EC2 instances powered by AWS Graviton3 processors. It explains how to leverage Datadog's auto-discovery and pre-built…

What Happens if I Shrink a Database in Windows Azure?

11/20/13 At some point in your career as a data professional, you are going to fill up an entire drive with data. It is not a question of “if,” but a matter of “when” this will hap…

Providing Exceptional Customer Service to Exceptional Customers

11/05/13 What is “exceptional” customer service? It’s difficult to define, but you know when you have received it. It is an experience in which a service representative helped chan…

Key AWS ELB Monitoring Metrics

This Datadog article details how to monitor your Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs) to ensure application availability and performance. It explains how to leverage Datadog's integration…