Time, but Faster
Every once in awhile, you find yourself in a rabbit hole, unsure of where you are or what time it might be. In this post, I’ll show you a computing…
Rapid Resolution With The Right Tools
Here at Circonus, we obviously monitor our infrastructure with the Circonus platform. However, there are many types of monitoring, and our product isn’t intended to cover all the bases. While…
LuaJIT and the Illumos VM
I’m about to dive into some esoteric stuff, so be warned. We use LuaJIT extensively throughout most of our product suite here at Circonus. It is core supported technology in…
The Uphill Battle for Visibility
In 2011, Circonus released a feature that revolutionized the way people could observe systems. We throw around the word “histogram” a lot and the industry has listened. And while we’ve…
Percentages Aren’t People
This is a story about an engineering group celebrating success when it shouldn’t be… and their organization buying into it. This is not the fault of the engineering groups, or…
Understanding API Latencies
Today’s Internet is powered by APIs. Tomorrow’s will be even more so. Without a pretty UI or a captivating experience, you’re judged simply on performance and availability. As an API…
