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Monitoring: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You
In my last post, I mentioned network and application monitoring as one of those best practices that’s unfortunately not practiced as often as it should be. The importance of monitoring systems cannot be overstated. You want to know that your computers are functioning as you expect them to and that the applications running on them…
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Best Practices vs. Practical Reality
I’m struck by the huge gap that I see between acknowledged best practices and what companies are actually practicing. More than once, I have researched a product direction and decided not to pursue it because it seemed to me that the market must already be saturated. Later, when talking to customers, I’m stunned to find…