Don’t Get Bitten by Schrödinger’s Backup
11/01/18 There are two sayings you can find in virtually every article about data protection: “If your data doesn’t exist in at least two places, then it doesn’t exist,” and “If yo…
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Giving Developers the Tools They Need to Innovate
10/31/18 The word “innovation” has come to mean various things. For many, it draws up images of great modern innovators. For developers, it’s the driving force behind a day’s work.…
Making Dev + Ops Possible with Log Management
10/31/18 You know how the saying goes—you can’t optimize what you can’t measure, and you can’t measure what you can’t monitor. Perhaps this isn’t a time-tested proverb just yet, bu…
Application Performance Monitoring: What Should We Be Monitoring? How Should We Be Monitoring?
10/31/18 What Should We Be Monitoring? To effectively begin getting a grasp on your applications performance, you must begin mapping out all the components in the path of your appl…
Selecting a Winning Project Management Methodology
10/30/18 When it comes to choosing from the various types of project management methodologies, making the selection that is best for your team and the project in question can be fa…
My Animosity Toward Artificial Intelligence
10/30/18 In my previous posts, I talked about the basics of AI in relation to network and systems management as well as why I love it. This post isn’t going to be as optimistic abo…
PostgresConf Silicon Valley
10/30/18 Did you miss us at PostgresConf Silicon Valley in San Jose? Have no fear! Here’s a sneak peek video of Baron Schwartz delivering his talk on database indexing: How to Inde…
Think You Don’t Need User Experience Monitoring? Think Again.
10/30/18 Unless your user is actually experiencing a service or website as it’s meant to be experienced, it doesn’t matter if your monitoring tool says it’s up or down. These are w…
Directions
10/29/18 My wife called me for the third time, and I could hear that she was working hard to remain calm but was undeniably at the end of her rope. She had missed the freeway exit.…
Where Is Your Configuration Source of Truth?
10/25/18 Ask a good server engineer where their server configuration is defined and the answer will likely be something similar to In my Puppet manifests. Ask a network administrat…
My Affection for AI
10/24/18 In my last post, I mentioned one of the basic use cases for Artificial Intelligence (AI) in a modern network. AI can be utilized to not only bridge the informational gaps …
Am I Automating Myself Out of a Job?
10/24/18 Is our contribution measured by what we’re doing or how we’re doing it? Are we providing value or are we just getting caught up in what’s exciting? How do we ensure that w…