Category: General

Between now and the end of Passover, I’m sharing excerpts from my book “The Four Questions Every Monitoring Engineer is Asked“. It blends wisdom and themes from Passover with common questions (and…

As a counterpoint to my post last week, I wanted to talk about why I’m on social media at all, and the fine line I find myself sometimes walking in that regard….

DBA Mary, extraordinary,What makes your tables grow?When queries propel, through my TSQL shelldata ingests into neat little rows. This will likely be the last post in my series about monitoring the pihole…

Purim is over, Passover is on the horizon, which makes this the perfect time to grab a copy of “The Four Questions Every Monitoring Engineer is Asked“. The book blends wisdom and…

I was digging through some old posts, and found this one from 2014. I was shocked to realize it’s been almost 10 years since I completely shut down my Facebook account. It’s…

Recently I posted a tutorial on how I monitored my Raspberry-pi based “pihole” server using New Relic and Flex. Like many tutorials, what I shared was the end-result, a clear and concise…

While a lot of my inspiration for blog posts come from talking with New Relic users, it’s hard to share them as examples because they’re so specific and often confidential. So I…

(This post originally appeared on the New Relic Blog) “And you’re with me. And the journey’s finished. But after coming all that way I don’t want to give up yet. It’s not…

(This post originally appeared on the New Relic Blog) “It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no…

(This post originally appeared on the New Relic Blog) At last comes their answer through cold and through frost,That not all who wonder or wander are lost,No matter the sorrow, no matter…