Crosstown Traffic and the Future of Monitoring
When it comes to monitoring data, the are only five possible resource bottlenecks (disk, memory, cpu, network, locking/blocking).
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The Future of Monitoring
It’s this simple: machine learning won’t fix stupid. This new wave of monitoring tools will help reduce sys admin headaches but what we really want is for our tools to reduce the amount of time we spend being reactive.
The DBA Plate for 2016
Four years ago I wrote about the DBA Plate, which was a reference to the food plate that replaced the food pyramid right about the time the U.S. Congress declared pizza to be a vegetable. I had every intention of keeping the plate updated annually but never got around to doing so because reasons. Well, today is the day. You’re welcome.
