Thursday, September 6th, 2012
You released new code with all sorts of new features and improvements. Yay!
Now, after the obvious things like "Does it actually work in production", this is also the time to assess: did it impact my infrastructure performance (and thus my scalability, and thus my scaling costs) in any way.
This is ...
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Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
Last night our ops team (of which I am a member) got paged about the CPU load on a Cisco 3560 switch in a new datacenter, late at night. My initial reaction was "We don't need this alert escalated to pagers or phones- 3560's switch and route in hardware, so ...
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Friday, December 9th, 2011
I was invited to talk to an MSP peer group the other week, and during the presentation, one of the group members who was a LogicMonitor customer described a way they use LogicMonitor to solve a previously hard-to-solve VMWare operational issue.
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Sunday, October 16th, 2011
I've talked about this before, but I just read an article about why application performance monitoring is so screwed up, and coincidentally had just talked about it in a lecture I gave to a graduate class at UCSB on scalable computing, so figured it's worth a mention.
The article mentions that ...
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