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Join Our Team! We’re Hiring!

04/24/14 We’re Hiring! VividCortex has several open positions, both technical and non-technical. All of these positions are fulltime, based in Charlottesville, VA or Montevideo, Ur…

Customize graphs and dashboards with graph markers

Datadog's Terraform provider v4.0.0 introduces significant improvements including support for managing Datadog Synthetics tests and a streamlined resource model for easier configur…

How to Fix Hangout Restrictions on Google Apps

04/16/14 We use Google Hangout all the time to conduct calls with employees, service providers, customers and pretty much anyone. It’s a great tool, and in our opinion more friendl…

Go Performance Tales

"Crossing Streams" celebrates the power and flexibility of Go's `io.Reader` interface, arguing it's a foundational building block for composing robust and testable I/O pipelines. T…

Monitor OpenShift performance metrics

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Rank and filter performance metrics with top() function

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Monitor key Couchbase metrics

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VMDK versus RDM: Which One Do I Need for SQL Server?

03/26/14 When it comes to disk configuration options for virtualized servers running on VMware, you have two options: VMFS virtual file-based disk (VMDK) or a raw device mapping (R…

Multi-Threaded Replication in MySQL

03/17/14 For years, people lamented that MySQL’s replication was single-threaded. Peter, Vadim, and I griped about this in High Performance MySQL for two whole editions, as well as…

Performance Schema, Slow Query Log, and TCP Decoding

02/25/14 Peter Zaitsev posted Percona’s answer to the question, “why use the slow query log instead of the PERFORMANCESCHEMA tables to gather information about query execution and …

Understand AWS CloudWatch metrics and Datadog measurements

This article details how Datadog now supports Amazon CloudWatch Metric Streams, enabling significantly faster ingestion of CloudWatch metrics – often within seconds instead of minu…

Hardware or Code? SQL Server Performance Examined

01/24/14 As DBAs with years of experience in a variety of environment between us, we each have seen that most database performance issues result not from lack of enough CPU power o…