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3 Big Trends on My Mind
It’s safe to say we’re in the midst of big trends emerging in the IT industry. Technologies continued to develop, particularly mobile and cloud. The overall economic health of US and Europe remained precarious, forcing organizations to continue trimming fat and improve efficiencies. IT professionals are learning to do more with less and reevaluate how their organizations are structured (think DevOps). Here is a brief discussion of the three big trends in IT today. Read more
Is BSM Dead?
An event occurred recently which marked the end of an era. BSMdigest, an online publication covering our space, relaunced as APM digest. What exactly does this mean? This proves that the term BSM was never well equipped for describing our industry. The term should have never been applied in the first place. In my view, BSM is dead for a multitude of reasons.
Sometimes a Performance Problem Can’t Be Reproduced In a Test Bed
I attended the Greater Boston Computer Measurement Group’s fall conference a few weeks ago and was pleasantly surprised by the variety of topics discussed. However, among the plethora of bullet points described, one value proposition sticks out in my mind. Read more
Google Tries to Keep Google Plus from Getting Overloaded
When Google released its new social networking tool, Google Plus last week, it was confined to what they called a limited invitation-only Beta. Scoring an invitation was a precious commodity, but many new members (including me) quickly found that instead of accessing the system, we found a sign that indicated the system was temporarily over capacity.
I’m guessing that Google wanted to make sure there wasn’t so much traffic, that it would take down the system. Not exactly what you want to do in the first days of release of a hot service. Read more
