The Business Challenges We See Today
11/28/17 Over the next few weeks, I will be releasing a series of articles covering the value of data analytics and insight, focusing on five of the key business drivers that I hav…
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5 More Ways I Can Steal Your Data: Ask the Security Guard to Help Me Carry it Out
11/27/17 In my recent post 5 More Ways I Can Steal Your Data – Work for You & Stop Working for You I started telling the story of a security guard who helped a just fired contracto…
My Life as IT Code: Part 5 – Walking the Wall
11/27/17 In this, my fifth and final post about life hacks, I’ll talk about the communication process, clarifications across all key personnel, and a big approach in how some of th…
The Unifying Force of Data
11/27/17 Someday, we may look back on IT as a subset of social science as much as a technological discipline. Because it sits at the intersection of business and technology, visibi…
Needle In a Hay Stack or Sword in a Straw Pile?
11/21/17 I’ve spent countless hours trying to find the perfect tool for the job. In fact, I’ve spent more hours searching at times than I have doing the work. You’ve probably done …
My Life as IT Code: Part Four – Exercise and Sandbox
11/16/17 In previous posts in this “My Life” blog series, I’ve written quite a bit about the project management/on-task aspects of how I keep my focus and direction top of mind whi…
Hierarchical Observability with RED
11/07/17 I’ve written before about the minimal set of metrics that can serve effectively as application/service vital signs. One such set is the RED acronym, which stands for Reque…
Monitor Your Citus Cluster With SolarWinds® Database Performance Monitor
10/13/17 SolarWinds® Database Performance Monitor (DPM) has support for monitoring Citus, a scale-out solution for massively sharded data storage and processing using standard open…
What’s the Difference Between Incidents, Service Requests, and Tickets?
10/12/17 One of the most common questions that we receive during implementation is, “What is the difference between an incident and a service request?” While most people are famili…
Monitoring and Observability With USE and RED
10/05/17 Modern systems can emit thousands or millions of metrics, and modern monitoring tools can collect them all. Faced with such an abundance of data, it can be difficult to kn…
Find Queries That Need Indexes With SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor
09/21/17 Queries can be slow or resource-heavy for many reasons, but one of the most common is that the table doesn’t have a good index for the query. This is true for MySQL, Postg…
Monitoring Isn’t Observability
09/14/17 Observability is all the rage, an emerging term that’s trending up very quickly in certain circles even while it remains unknown in others. As such, there isn’t a single w…