Cameron Laird's personal notes on writing for Real User Monitoring
In July 2012, I substituted for vacationing
Ron Miller in his
more-or-less daily
blog for Real User Monitoring. A month later, I resumed posting. Since that time,
the publisher has tinkered with the frequency, and, most recently,
settled on two tracks, the "Real User Monitoring blog",
and the "Application Monitor". I've posted
- "More Than Just One Thing: the many faces of Application Performance Management", a DZone Big Link,
- "Three upcoming events for performance specialists",
- "Subtle but important: three smart performance pieces",
- "Emphasis on flexibility elevates IT to strategic realm",
- "IT Important Part of 'Balancing Act' of Modern Medicine",
- "Eliminate Outages: the engineering challenge",
- "'Continuous Operations' a great idea--but details of execution still matter",
- "VDI stuck in niche",
- "Do What Matters: Improve System Performance",
- "Services and Subscriptions: the future of software",
- "Mobile particularly needs DevOps",
- "Monitor even what you trust: a non-linear imperative",
- "TestOps: catching a new trend in performance management",
- "Quickstart Guide to DevOps", a DZone Big Link,
- "Bottlenecks and flowmeters: models for performance management",
- "Assets and Liabilities in the Datacenter", a DZone Big Link
- "Webpage bloat accelerates"
- "Whither VDI"
- "Strategic Thinking in the Datacenter"
- "Five networking thoughts you should be thinking"
- "Freedom, responsibility, and testing: lessons for DevOps"
- "VMware redefines its strategy for availability monitoring; so should you"
- "Two good independent surveys of application performance management practices"
- "'Performance' means something new in a rationalized cloud architecture"
- "Networking progress is more than just incremental bandwidth and lower prices"
- "Make the many ROIs work for you: correct analysis of service-oriented architecture"
- "High-profile RFP application in Washington a showcase for mash-up approach"
- "Standardize the Datacenter: Single-source for success"
- "Application Performance Management indispensable for your career"
- "Application performance management crucial as gaming expands in geographic, technical, and social reach"
- "The sky is falling: leading e-commerce sites degrade customer experience", a DZone Big Link
- "APM pays off"
- "Choice of technologies for leak monitoring in Java applications", a DZone Big Link
- "New era for network pricing"
- "Lawsuit Provides Peek Behind Curtain of Online Financial Transactions"
- "Windows functions make for better SQL", a DZone Big Link
- "Information Technology in the 2013 Kenyan national election"
- "Marissa reads logs: Yahoo management and data"
- "Non-traditional APM multiplies profits"
- "When Data and Application Come Together: Specific Performance Opportunities"
- "VBCA: Big Risks, Big Rewards in the Cloud"
- "Bring Data and Applications Practices Together for Best Performance"
- "Quality independent trade publication endorses importance of APM"
- "BigData too often BadData"
- "'Technical debt' in modern business"
- "The Rocky Relationship of APM and SIEM"
- "Virtualize Everything"
- "Character Traits for Success in APM"
- "Not all Distribution Networks are the same: ADN vs. CDN"
- "Forgotten scaling: the role of APM in customer support"
- "Top-level categories: APM's potential with big-budget items"
- "A diagram for cloud analysis: the big picture"
- "A Thoughtful Report on the Future of APM"
- "End-User Mechanics of APM"
- "Anticipations: APM in 2013"
- "APM future bright--if more focused"
- "APM for HPC"
- "APM the antidote to stale metrics"
- "The heartbreak of packet loss-cured!"
- "Storage now dominates performance"
- "The efficiency of branch office IT"
- "RUM only beginning its APM relationship"
- "VARs a natural home for APM"
- "Trends to watch: SDN"
- "No time to give up on APM"
- "APM for mobile apps"
- "Goldilocks' APM: not too little, not too much"
- "High-level and low-level revision-control tips for the datacenter"
for the latter.
For the "Real User Monitoring blog",
I've written:
- "Safety of WebSockets and other advanced parts of HTML5", a DZone Big Link,
- "Error-handling: a fable in code", a DZone Big Link,
- "Server-sent events a good choice for datacenter monitors',
- "Three performance tips: measurements and techniques to pay off for the long haul", a DZone Big Link
- "True scientfic revolution: radical sharing",
- "PowerShell to the Rescue! Tactical language with strategic impact"
- "HTML5 vs native an important, but not obvious, choice", a DZone Big Link,
- "Hail humble CGI: active Web pages for the working sysad",
- "Three main choices for advanced communications in HTML5", a DZone Big Link
- "The true meaning of 'declarative'", a DZone Big Link
- "Your Next Computing Language Should Be ...", a DZone Big Link
- "Performance matters when writing, too: more SQL tips", a DZone Big Link,
- "Monitoring tools leverage expertise, not replace it",
- "Expect for DevOps",
- "Four tips for DevOps migrating to the software-defined datacenter: techniques for managing technical debt",
- "Quality matters: invisible lines of code and their all-too-visible real-world impacts", a DZone Big Link
- "Technical debt in system administration", a DZone Big Link
- "Combinatorics of technical debt: communicative power of a metaphor"
- "Blessings of technical debt and the impact on SDN"
- "HTML5 realities: practical, constrained, and promising"
- "Trends in online gaming"
- "End-user experience more important than technology to gaming customers"
- "Outage happens"
- "'Social' more important than flawed IBM sales pitch"
- "Chromebooks in the datacenter"
- "Datacenter trends: energy and siting"
- "Idiomatic Programming and the Fitness of APM"
- "The Programmers Shall Always Be With You" (a DZone Big Link)
- "Datacenter Geography"
- "Optimism about datacenter energy use"
- "Larger realities of energy in the datacenter"
- "Pick the right monitoring tool"
- "Energy costs, energy savings"
- "An analyst's APM insight"
- "Strategic approach to security in a cloudy environment"
- "APM supports other IT functions"
- "What's In? What's Out? Where the Edges Are in the World of Application Monitoring"
- "Sky's the limit: strategic APM"
- "Start your cloud journey in the right direction"
- "Bloat costs millions"
- "Higher-level datacenter planning"
- "Lessons in tooling: OBI 11g"
- "Trends for successful datacenters: virtualization, cloud, storage"
- "Appliances in the Datacenter: Challenge for Judgment"
- "Bank attacks more, and less, serious than earlier feared"
- "Chicken Little in the Datacenter"
- "Letting go"
- "Evolve or die ... or hunker down"
- "Get what you're after with your private cloud"
- "Customize your APM"
- "Scripting Oracle WebLogic and other resources: another level of refactoring"
- "Four reactions to 'MySQL Benchmarking Best Practices'"
- "The good and bad of virtualization: make the most of it in your own career"
- "Improve efficiency--but also improve strategy"
- "The moving APM target: through to ADN"
- "Taking Your Career into the Cloud"
- "Letting go the hardest part of some careers"
- "Storm of APM Challenges"
- "RFID Timely in the Datacenter"
- "Varieties of Application Performance Management"
- "A Day in the IT Life: saying the obvious"
- "How much does IT globalization pay off?"
- "Introspection: making the best of broken database operations"
- "APEX continues rapid ascent"
- "Africa does IT"
- "The Time for Application Performance Management is Now"
- "Oracle and HTML5 Forms:
Validation is Another Form of Early Error-catching", a DZone Big Link
- "Oracle, encodings, deployment discipline, and other performance considerations", a DZone Big Link
- "Lost in the Cloud"
- "Little Mystery in Amazon's Outage";
- "Mission-Critical App Delivery";
- "Reliability of Cloud-based applications",
picked up as a DZone Big Link.
Other columns I've written in recent years appear
here.
I've also published over five hundred commissioned
articles
on information technology and related topics.
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Cameron
Laird's personal notes on writing for Real User
Monitoring/claird@phaseit.net