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How to Monitor Amazon DynamoDB with CloudWatch
By Mark Siebert on March 19, 2019

Amazon DynamoDB is a key-value and document database that allows you to easily scale to huge numbers of records with single digit millisecond performance. However, since it’s a managed...

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Guardian Devops

Introducing Guardian DevOps
By Matthew Barlocker on March 15, 2019

I started Blue Matador in 2016 to help people like me. Site reliability engineers' and devops engineers' time is in short supply while the demands keep growing. We support an increasing...

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How to Monitor Amazon RDS with CloudWatch
By Mark Siebert on March 12, 2019

Amazon RDS allows you to store your application data in databases without having to actually manage the servers the databases are hosted on. It also allows you to easily set up read...

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What to Expect from a Next-gen Monitoring Tool, Blue Matador 2018 Review
By Matthew Barlocker on January 8, 2019

What do you expect from a monitoring tool? What should you expect? The Blue Matador team has spent 2018 making a next-gen monitoring tool. Our design goals came from thrilled customers and...

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5 Tips to Avoid Deadlocks in Amazon RDS Part 2
By Matthew Barlocker on December 27, 2018

If you missed the first 2 tips, go back and read 5 Tips to Avoid Deadlocks in Amazon RDS (Part 1), and then come back for the last 3 tips on deadlock avoidance.

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5 Tips to Avoid Deadlocks in Amazon RDS Part 1
By Matthew Barlocker on December 20, 2018

Last week, I wrote A Beginner’s Guide to Deadlocks in Amazon RDS. This week, I’d like to lay out my 10 years of experience about how to avoid deadlocks altogether. Often times, this will...

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