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Analyzing Spark’s MPP Scalability with the USL

01/13/16 Over at the Percona Performance Blog, Vadim recently published benchmark results for Apache Spark, and the shape of the graphs caught my eye. Here’s one of Vadim’s charts:…

How the Apache Software Foundation monitors with Datadog

Please provide me with the article "Collecting Kafka performance metrics"! I need the text of the article to be able to summarize it for you. Just paste the content here, and I'l…

Why 2016 is the year of monitoring at scale

This article explains the founding vision of Datadog, built on the prediction that modern IT infrastructure would become significantly more complex due to the rise of Agile develop…

Ansible + Datadog: Monitor your automation, automate your monitoring

This Datadog article details how to automate the installation of the Datadog Agent using the Datadog Ansible collection. It allows users to easily deploy and configure the Agent ac…

How Connectifier unfroze MongoDB with Datadog

Please provide me with the article! I need the text of the "Improve performance and reliability with APM Recommendations" article to be able to summarize it for you. Just paste t…

There’s A Script for That

12/23/15 If there’s a chance to save time by using scripts or automation tools, I always take it. Over the years I’ve found that there are a set of common themes associated with th…

Designing a Monitoring Solution: Where Are Your Eyes?

12/21/15 Contemporary monitoring solutions are no different from any other distributed application in your environment. Even a small-scale deployment can include multiple component…

The Factors That Impact Availability, Visualized

12/21/15 We all want our systems to have high availability, but sometimes the exact meaning of “high availability” isn’t very clearly defined. However, availability — like scalabil…

How Does your VMware Environment Look Today? A Rationale for the VOA

12/16/15 VMware® as a technology has a huge potential to sprawl. Have you created an environment for testing purposes? Have projects required a number of guest VMs to be built, but…

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…

How iHeartRadio monitors Docker performance

This Datadog article details how to effectively monitor Kubernetes and Docker containers using Datadog's suite of tools. It explains how to leverage Datadog's auto-discovery and pr…

On Becoming a Virtualization Professional

12/14/15 I’ve been a VMware® evangelist and virtualization advocate for a decade. Even before I first started using VMware—by accident, I’ll admit—I’ve had the (dis?)advantage of w…