How to monitor Apache
Editor's note: An earlier version of this article was published on Oct, 2, 2014. Apache HTTP Server been around since 1995 and it's deployed on the majority of web servers out there (although losing...
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5 Ways to Reduce Alerts for Better Productivity
We’ve long been proponents of HumanOps—the idea that a top performing Ops team is a healthy, well rested Ops team. With that conviction in mind, we recently launched Alert Costs to help teams estimate...
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New attack that cripples HTTPS crypto works on Macs, Windows, and Linux Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL Using NATS instead of HTTP for inter service communication Real–world...
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Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL HTTPS Adoption *doubled* this year Machine Learning over 1M hotel reviews finds interesting insights Fixing the Internet for Real-Time Applications...
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I wanna go fast: HTTPS' massive speed advantage On Uber’s Choice of Databases How MIT’s new biological ‘computer’ works, and what it could do in the future In-memory query execution in Google BigQuery...
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Monitoring Amazon resources with CloudWatch
There are some very good reasons for moving your stack to the cloud—I bet you knew that already. RightScale’s survey shows that, almost ten years after its launch, AWS is the prevalent choice for...
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more, less, and a story of typical Unix fossilization Scaling Rails to 125,000 Requests per Minute on Heroku NoSQL Databases: a Survey and Decision Guidance Do’s and Don’ts of AWS Lambda Throughput vs...
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Best Practices for Building a Microservice Architecture Scaling Rails to 125,000 Requests per Minute on Heroku How to get people who installed a leaked build to stop using that build? NoSQL Databases:...
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HumanOps Events: Get excited
The health of your infrastructure is not just about hardware, software, automations and uptime—it also includes the health and wellbeing of your team. Sysadmins are not super humans. They are...
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Editor's note: This is an updated version of an article originally published on 21/03/2009. Back in 2009 we introduced a new location preference feature for Server Density. Users could now specify...
View ArticleCloud vs dedicated pricing – which is cheaper?
Editor’s note: This is an updated version of an article originally published on GigaOm on 29/11/2013. Using cloud infrastructure is the natural starting point for any new project because it’s one of...
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A Loud Sound Just Shut Down a Bank's Data Center for 10 Hours How Uber Manages a Million Writes Per Second Using Mesos and Cassandra Across Multiple Datacenters Why Shopify Moved to The Production...
View ArticleSpotify Engineering: Making Ops Human
If you've read us for awhile, then you've probably heard us sing the praises of HumanOps—a set of principles that restores our focus away from systems and towards humans. In equal measure. As it turns...
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Safe and unsafe operations for high volume PostgreSQL Optimizing optimizing: some insights that led to a 400% speedup of PowerDNS Astonishing disappointment with AWS’s API Gateway – Where Did All...
View ArticleHow GOV.UK Reduced their Incidents and Alerts
Did you watch last week’s HumanOps video—the one with Spotify? How about the one with Barclays? Keep reading gentle reader, this is not some Friends episode potboiler joke. We just can't help getting...
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Automatic timezone conversion in JavaScript
Editor’s note: This is an updated version of an article originally published here on 21/01/2010. It’s been awhile since JavaScript charts and graphs became the go-to industry norm for data...
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Systemd programming, 30 months later A Comprehensive Guide to Terraform On Finding Root Causes Excited to be working on another #HumanOps meetup – this one at Facebook London. Tickets going fast. Join...
View ArticleDatacenter efficiency and its effect on Humans
Did you know? About 2 percent of world energy expenditure goes into datacenters. That's according to Anne Curie, co-founder of Microscaling Systems who spoke at the most recent HumanOps event here in...
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How breakpoints are set Faster PostgreSQL Counting Help us demonstrate the crucial role of SaaS monitoring to technical buyers. On-prem is old school. We're hiring: Streaming Messages from Kafka into...
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