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The below post is reposted with permission from its original source on the InfraCloud Technologies blog. This MySQL connection draining issue highlights the complexity of troubleshooting today’s complex environments, and provides a great illustration of the many rabbit holes SREs…
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Reposted with permission from LinkedIn. OpenTelemetry and the Path to Understanding Complex Systems Decades ago, the IETF’s (Internet Engineering Task Force) developed an innovative protocol, SNMP, revolutionizing network management. This standardization spurred a surge of innovation, fostering a ne
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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…
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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 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….
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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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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…