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Common UI Performance Problems in Angular Apps

05/20/16 In this post, we analyze some performance issues we recently fixed in our web app common in AngularJS apps. We also discuss the tools we used to find and diagnose the caus…

Addressing a Problematic MySQL Query and its Effects on Amazon Aurora

05/06/16 Since we announced our support for Amazon Web Service’s Aurora last year, we’ve had great experiences working with customers who use Aurora as their database system of cho…

How to Build a Probabilistic Sketch

04/13/16 Last month, we published our newest, free ebook, Sampling a Stream of Events With a Probabilistic Sketch, examining the way that SolarWinds® Database Performance Monitor u…

Drinking from the Firehose: How SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor Compresses its Metrics

02/23/16 Sometimes, when working with a top-of-the-line monitoring tool, having access to the best possible visibility, granularity, and reliability is simply not enough. Sure, tho…

Anomaly Detection for Monitoring – A New eBook

01/27/16 We’re excited to share Anomaly Detection for Monitoring a new, free eBook written by Preetam Jinka and Baron Schwartz. In the eBook, published in collaboration with Ruxit …

Queueing Theory: London Underground Escalator Policy Challenges Social Norms

01/19/16 In 2016, we published our eBook Everything You Need to Know About Queueing Theory, and as part of its launch, we blogged about one way (of the many) queueing theory has re…

8 Reasons Why ChatOps Isn’t Working At Your Company

12/16/15 About a year and half ago I published a blog post about ChatOps at VividCortex (if you’re unfamiliar with ChatOps, that original post still serves as a good primer). At th…

The Value of Log Structured Merge Trees

11/20/15 Indexes are usually built by way of a data structure; typically, that structure takes the form of a “tree.” Most commonly, the structure of choice is a B-Tree, which is a …

Queueing Theory: Faster Trains Might Make London Underground Slower

10/10/15 Let’s take a look at a great real-world example that effectively illustrates how queuing theory can be unintuitive even in situations that seem simple. A recent BBC report…

Mastering the Sort Buffer and sort_buffer_size

10/02/15 The sort buffer, which is controlled by the sortbuffersize setting, is probably one of the most-discussed MySQL settings. Interestingly, in many cases it has a lot less po…

Selecting Queries for Optimization

09/25/15 Query optimization can feel like an overwhelming task. Where to start? In this blog post, we’ll discuss how to select which queries you really should optimize. This is a s…

Brainiac Corner with Ryn Daniels

09/15/15 Ryn Daniels is an operations engineer at Etsy who got her start in programming with TI-80 calculators back when Geocities was still cool, and these days has opinions on th…