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All Sides of the Table

Reflecting on the boardroom dynamics that truly matter This past month has been an eventful one. Like everyone in the tech world, I’m riveted by the drama unfolding at OpenAI, wondering how the board and CEO created such an extreme…

Example of distributed tracing with sync communication

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Navigating Kafka and the Challenges of Asynchronous Communication

Welcome back to our series, “One Million Ways to Slow Down Your Application.” Having previously delved into the nuances of Postgres configurations, we now journey into the world of Kafka and asynchronous communication, another critical component of scalable applications. Kafka…

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Why do this startup thing all over again? Our reasons for creating Causely

Why be a serial entrepreneur? It’s a question that my co-founder, Shmuel, and I are asked many times. Both of us have been to this rodeo twice before – Shmuel, with SMARTS and Turbonomic, myself with ClearSky Data and CloudSwitch….

Application: Database Connection Noisy Neighbor causing service and infrastructure symptoms

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One million ways to slow down your application response time and throughput

This blog was originally posted on LinkedIn. Navigating the Perilous Waters of Misconfigured MaxOpenConnection in Postgres Applications Welcome to the inaugural post in our series, “One Million Ways to Slow Down Your Application Response Time and Throughput”. In this series,…

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DevOps may have cheated death, but do we all need to work for the king of the underworld?

This blog was originally posted on LinkedIn. How causality can eliminate human troubleshooting Tasks that are both laborious and futile are described as Sisyphean. In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was the founder and king of Ephyra (now known as Corinth). Hades…