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Documenting with Types
I've said this before: elegant code is pedagogical. That is, elegant code is designed to teach its readers about the concepts and relationships in the problem domain that the code addresses, with as little noise as possible. I think data types are a fundamental tool...
Post-Mortem 2017.1.12.1
TL;DR: Some users received spurious false alerts for approximately 30 minutes, starting at 2017-01-12 22:10 UTC. It is our assessment that no expected alerts were missed. There was no data loss. Overview Due to a software bug in the ingestion pipeline specific to...
Introducing IRONdb
Software is eating the world. Devices that run that software are ubiquitous and multiplying rapidly. Without adequate monitoring on these services, operators are mostly flying blind, either relying on customers to report issues or manually jumping on boxes and spot...
The Problem with Math: Why Your Monitoring Solution is Wrong
Math is perfect – the most perfect thing in the world. The problem with math is that it is perpetrated by us imperfect humans. Circonus has long aimed to bring deep numerical analysis to business telemetry data. That may sound like a lot of mumbo-jumbo, but it really...
Wrangling Elephants in the Cloud
Yonah Russ is a hands-on Technology Executive, System Architect, and Performance Engineer. He is founder of DonateMyFee. You can read more articles by Yonah on LinkedIn where you will also find the original version of this post. You know the elephant in the room, the...
Underneath Clean Data: Avoiding Rot
When many people talk about clean data, they are referring to data that was collected in a controlled and rigorous process where bad inputs are avoided. Dirty data has samples outside of the intended collection set or values for certain fields that may be mixed up...
Our Monitoring Tools are Lying to Us
I posted the article below to LinkedIn a few weeks back. Since it was relatively popular and relevant to the Circonus community we decided to repost to our Blog. You can find the original here. I came across this vendor blog post today extolling the virtues of...
One-Minute-Resolution Data Storage is Here!
Have you noticed your graphs looking better? Zoom in. Notice more detail? That's what our switch from 5 to 1-minute-resolution data storage has done for our SaaS customers. Couple that with our 7 years of data-retention and you’ve got an unrivaled monitoring and...
Video: Math in Big Systems
Every year the esteemed Usenix organization holds their LISA conference. LISA has transformed slowly over the years as systems, architectures, and the nature of large-scale deployments have changed, but this year represented the largest change to date. "The format of...