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SQL Server Performance Tuning: Best Practices

Getting tired of slow queries? Wondering how you can improve SQL performance? The answer lies in SQL performance tuning or SQL server audit. Developers and database administrators (DBA) can significantly improve SQL server performance by fine-tuning how it carries out the queries. Optimal performance is crucial for relational databases and the applications that use them.

Console Connect Ecosystem Update October 2020

The Console Connect ecosystem is rapidly expanding. To help you keep up-to-speed, each month we are bringing you updates on all our latest data centre, cloud and SaaS interconnect locations, as well as introducing you to some of our newest ecosystem partners. This month, we’ve extended your reach even further! We have on-boarded over 40 data centres and over 20 new SaaS PoPs! Here is the full list of our new locations and clouds.

Three meetings your remote startup must have (and one to avoid)!

As a small startup, and a fully remote one to boot (thanks COVID), having only the “right” amount of meetings is crucial. Over-index on meetings and your team will get nothing done. Go too far the other way and your team won’t understand the vision, why you are doing what you are doing, and won’t be able to form the personal bonds that are required for a small team to succeed. We set aside 45 minutes every morning to discuss pretty much anything and everything.

Developer Sneak Peek | Folded reply threads

Folded reply threads are one of our most-requested features at Mattermost. In this Developer Sneak Peek, Caleb Roseland shares an update of how we're kicking off our overhaul of reply threads. Want to learn more? Join the Mattermost Community to ask questions, share feedback and connect with other Mattermost users.

Go HAM on Your ITAM Strategy by Avoiding These 6 Mistakes

Okay, now we have you thinking about ham and that delicious holiday meal on the horizon. While not quite as delicious, hardware asset management, or HAM, is something IT should have on its plate this season. “What would it cost to replace all the desktops and laptops in your organization?” A hypothetical question posed on a recent webcast by Jon Hauser, IT director at the University of Washington School of Social Work.

Setting up Graphite from Scratch on Icinga Web 2

In this post, I will show you how easy you can integrate Graphite with Icinga Web 2. I assume you have a Icinga 2 ready with Icinga Web 2 Server running, and you have an additional Linux Server where you will install Graphite. It’s recommended to have Graphite in a Linux box out of your Icinga Web 2 Server. This scenario was tested on two Linux Servers with Centos 7. Let’s rock.

AWS Lambda Extensions: What are they and why do they matter

There is a growing ecosystem of vendors that are helping AWS customers gain better observability into their serverless applications. All of them have been facing the same struggle: how to collect telemetry data about AWS Lambda functions in a way that’s both performant and cost-efficient. To address this need, Amazon is announcing today the release of AWS Lambda Extensions.