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The era of ultra low interest rates is over. Tech has painful adjustments to make.

The Agile Manager

As fiduciary measures lapse, so does investment performance. Similarly, businesses where there is a tech arms race on because innovation offers competitive advantage, such as in-car software , it will be business as usual. This is the Agile Manager blog, as it has been since I started it in 2006. There are ramifications to this.

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An Unbelievable Demo

Brendan Gregg

I was an independent performance consultant and Sun Microsystems had just released DTrace, a tool that could instrument all software. This gave performance analysts like myself X-ray vision. tools (2006). However, I was doing training and consulting for Sun, helping their customers with system administration and performance.

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An Unbelievable Demo

Brendan Gregg

I was an independent performance consultant and Sun Microsystems had just released DTrace, a tool that could instrument all software. This gave performance analysts like myself X-ray vision. tools (2006) As I wasn't a Sun Microsystems employee I wasn't privy to Sun's internal projects. DTraceToolkit v0.96 Yeah, sure."

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Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). It was at this point that we realized we needed to make a significant change in our approach towards performance, and that we must embrace performance as part of our culture. Dan Shappir. Large preview ).

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What is distributed tracing and why does it matter?

Dynatrace

As legacy monolithic applications give way to more nimble and portable services, the tools once used to monitor their performance are unable to serve the complex cloud-native architectures that now host them. Monitor key performance metrics that can be with interactive visual dashboards. Where traditional methods struggle.

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What is distributed tracing and why does it matter?

Dynatrace

As legacy monolithic applications give way to more nimble and portable services, the tools once used to monitor their performance are unable to serve the complex cloud-native architectures that now host them. Monitor key performance metrics that can be with interactive visual dashboards. Where traditional methods struggle.

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Why Waits Alone Are Not Enough

SQL Performance

"Waitstats helps us identify performance-related counters. But waits information by itself isn't enough to accurately diagnose performance problems. The queues component of our methodology comes from Performance Monitor counters, which provide a view of system performance from a resource standpoint.".

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