In 2008, Netflix was struck by a disaster. A fast-growing global streaming service was well on its way to transform the entertainment industry when the management faced a problem exposed by a data center failure. Even though it was a single issue, it shut the entire service down, depriving the company of millions in profits and effectively ending the shipments of DVDs (they were still a thing in 2008).
In the first part of our AWS S3 series, we discussed what AWS S3 buckets are, the difference between S3 and EC2s, advantages of AWS S3 object storage, and AWS S3 API integration. In this next post, we’ll be covering AWS S3 Monitoring, including the importance of leveraging data and monitoring metrics, and how Sumo Logic provides insight into your infrastructure with S3 logs.
.NET Profilers are a developer’s best friend when it comes to optimizing application performance. They are especially critical when doing low level CPU and memory optimizations. But did you know that there are three different types of profilers? All are very valuable but serve relatively different purposes and different types of performance profiling. Let’s explore the different types.
We saw Cameron’s impressive dashboard in a Grafana Experts Facebook group and asked him to break it down for us. When friends and visitors see my personal home dashboard in my kitchen, they’re normally of the opinion that it’s “really neat” and looks “impressive.” Often that’s what they take away from it. It’s “cool”… and as much as that may be true, that is not its purpose.
The first product to let you build live, interactive 360° dashboards that give you complete visibility of your cloud-hosted applications. Today is the start of an exciting new chapter at SquaredUp. The biggest release in the history of our company – SquaredUp for Azure – is now live!
Released in 2009, MariaDB is a popular open-source fork of the MySQL relational database management system. MariaDB is intended as a drop-in replacement for MySQL, so data and table definitions, protocols, structures, and connectors require little to no modification in order to migrate. MariaDB also contains several enhancements, including faster indexes and cache, increased connection thread pools, and support for more storage engines.
We often get questions about optimizing or monitoring Sidekiq. Monitoring is kind of our game, but optimizing Sidekiq’s performance is a different ball game altogether. In reality, optimizing is complex, but let’s start by looking at the seemingly simple answers…
Reinvention is the key to modern IT operations in a DevOps world. Headline after headline after headline tells the same story: Modern IT operations is an exercise in managing complexity. As the IT ecosystem increases in flexibility, scalability, agility, and possibility, the IT operations management workload is becoming increasingly unruly.
Good IT Support is harder to pin down than you’d think but deciding which technology is better than the next is pretty straightforward for most of us. Who wouldn’t pick the latest iPhone or Android device over a flip-phone? Actually, most senior citizens—but to their credit flip-phones never really die, they just regenerate into larger flip-phones. Bad example. Point is we can rate, compare, trial, and study just about every digital technology on the market.
