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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…

Collaborative Bug Fixing with Datadog's Sentry Integration

This article stresses the importance of directly linking technical errors in early-stage products to their *actual* impact on users, not just technical severity. By quantifying how…

Velocity Interview with Datadog's CTO, Alexis Lê-Quôc

This article summarizes Datadog's presence at the Velocity 2013 conference, highlighting presentations from their CTO and Director of Technical Operations on alerting and future pl…

Big-O Notation Made Simple

10/23/13 If you’re a programmer or computer scientist, you’re probably familiar with Big-O notation. It’s part of your foundational understanding of how complex a problem and/or al…

Learning from AWS failure

Please provide me with the article! I need the text of "Top 5 ways to improve your AWS EC2 performance" to be able to summarize it for you. Just paste the article content here, a…

Detecting outliers in cloud infrastructure with Datadog heatmaps

Datadog's Terraform provider v4.0.0 introduces significant improvements including support for managing monitors as code, enhanced network policy management, and streamlined user gr…

Improve SQL Server Performance by Looking at Plan Cache (Part 3)

10/03/13 You can use the information in the SQL Server plan cache to research performance issues and investigate opportunities for performance improvement. In this three-part artic…

Improve SQL Server Performance by Looking at Plan Cache (Part 2)

10/03/13 In this second part of a three-part article series, we’ll look at how to examine the plan cache to quickly identify plans that need tuning, including: Plans that have miss…

Improve SQL Server Performance by Looking at Plan Cache (Part 1)

10/03/13 The plan cache holds a great deal of information about the overall health of your database instance. You can use the plan cache to investigate current performance issues a…

100% Reproducible Builds in Go

09/10/13 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 nice things about Go is …