Java: Simulating various connection problems with Toxiproxy

Clojure – comparison of gnuplot, Incanter, oz/vega-lite for plotting usage data

What is the best way to plot memory and CPU usage data (mainly) in Clojure? I will compare gnuplot, Incanter with JFreeChart, and vega-lite (via Oz). (Spoiler: I like Oz/vega-lite most but still use Incanter to prepare the data.) The data looks like this: ;; sec.ns | memory | CPU % 1541052937.882172509 59m 0.0 1541052981.122419892

How I got fired and learned the importance of communication and play time

When I came to the office one late autumn morning in 2005, I have been shocked to find out that – without any warning signs whatsoever – I hd been fired. That day I have learned the importance of communication. Their criticism was justified but the thing is, nobody bothered to tell me anything during

How good monitoring saved our ass … again

You know how it goes – suddenly people complain your app does not work, your are getting plenty of timeouts or other errors in your error tracking tool, you find the backend app that is misbehaving and finally “fix” the problem by restarting it. Phew! But why? What caused the downtime? A glitch an an

Beware the performance cost of async_hooks (Node 8)

I was excited about async_hooks having finally landed in Node.js 8, as it would enable me to share important troubleshooting information with all code involved in handling a particular request. However it turned out to have terrible impact of our CPU usage (YMMV): This was quite extreme and is likely related to the way how