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How to Build a Probabilistic Sketch
Last month, we published our newest, free ebook, Sampling a Stream of Events With a Probabilistic Sketch, examining the way that SolarWinds® Database Performance Monitor uses a sophisticated technique to select…
Always On Availability Groups & VMs
As Data Platform Engineers, we are responsible for maintaining the Availability of data to those that are authorized to access it. We have many tools available to us in order…
Why an App-Centric View Isn’t Enough
Sylvia Botros, Sendgrid’s lead DBA, recently told us about one of the ways her teams have found unique value in SolarWinds® Database Performance Monitor. “Engineering managers and individual developers have…
Requirements for Selecting Effective Samples From an Event Stream
There are good and bad ways to select a sample from a stream of events. Depending on how you do it, the resulting sample might be biased or incomplete in…
Understanding Your SQL Server Monitoring: Part 3 – Memory (RAM)
In this series, I’ve tried to help you see the importance of SQL Server® monitoring, and also understand what that monitoring is telling you. So far, we’ve looked at how…
Drinking from the Firehose: How SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor Compresses its Metrics
Sometimes, when working with a top-of-the-line monitoring tool, having access to the best possible visibility, granularity, and reliability is simply not enough. Sure, those features represent the ultimate goals in…
Anomaly Detection for Monitoring – A New eBook
We’re excited to share Anomaly Detection for Monitoring a new, free eBook written by Preetam Jinka and Baron Schwartz. In the eBook, published in collaboration with Ruxit and O’Reilly, Preetam…
Queueing Theory: London Underground Escalator Policy Challenges Social Norms
In 2016, we published our eBook Everything You Need to Know About Queueing Theory, and as part of its launch, we blogged about one way (of the many) queueing theory…
Analyzing Spark’s MPP Scalability with the USL
Over at the Percona Performance Blog, Vadim recently published benchmark results for Apache Spark, and the shape of the graphs caught my eye. Here’s one of Vadim’s charts: The benchmark…
The Factors That Impact Availability, Visualized
We all want our systems to have high availability, but sometimes the exact meaning of “high availability” isn’t very clearly defined. However, availability — like scalability, performance, and so on…
