You have no idea that what you are not doing is causing you pain.
Then again, how could you know this? I mean, if you are not doing it, why would you ever think that your inaction could be the very thing that is causing you heartache every time your phone rings in the middle of [...]
This video is an hour-long but well worth sharing with you today. One of the main takeaways from this video I want you to have is the fact that troubleshooting performance is not always rocket surgery. When you watch this video and listen to Conor Cunningham talk about some of the real world examples he [...]
No one can predict the future.
And yet it seems as if we all tend to worry about what the future will hold for us. As data professionals we are bombarded every day with new concepts and buzzwords like ‘cloud’, ‘big data’, ‘PaaS’, and ‘Snooki’. For many server and database admins these terms represent an unknown [...]
Ever try to troubleshoot something that doesn’t really exist?
I think this virtualization thing is here to stay, I really do, but the trouble I see people having with virtualization is that they don’t know where the bottleneck truly lies. There are so many layers involved that most standard troubleshooting techniques fall short. Just think for [...]