The Blog. From Circonus
Our Values
Values Create Value In the tech industry, you read more blog posts on product features than you do on core values. At Circonus, we see them as inextricably linked – values create value – which is exactly what positions us to deliver results for our customers. Values...
High Volume Ingest
Like it or not, high-volume time series databases face one relentless challenge: ingestion. Unlike many other databases, TSDBs tend to record things that have already happened. Records are inserted with "past time stamps" (even if they're often just a few milliseconds...
UI Redesign FAQ
Today, the Circonus team is releasing the first round of our new User Interface changes. Since we started developing Circonus 7 years ago, we’ve worked with many customers in different spaces with different needs. Our team talked with many engineers about how they...
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 libmtev platform on which we build most of our high-performance server apps. Lua (and...
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 made great progress, it seems that somewhere along the way the industry got lost....
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 the operations team, or any one person. This is the fault of yesterday’s tools not providing...
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 provider, it is more critical than ever to understand how your system is performing....
Pully McPushface
The Argument for Connectivity Agnosticism It’s about push vs. pull... but it shouldn’t be. There has been a lot of heated debate on whether pushing telemetry data from systems or pulling that data from systems is better. If you’re just hearing about this argument now,...
What’s new in JLog?
Introduction There is a class of problems in systems software that require guaranteed delivery of data from one stage of processing to the next stage of processing. In database systems, this usually involves a WAL file and a commit process that moves data from the WAL...