OnceUponATimeAServer

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From cycling to computer systems performance – Part 1

This is my first longer blog entry after getting back to a more frequent blogging schedule. It will be a two part blog entry. It may start with cycling,...

Workarounds - revisited

The example with the heating system is a better example than I thought. I learned some additional things over the course of the day. There are workarounds that...

Workarounds

Sometimes you may think that IT is the only business where workarounds are used. Today I was reminded that other businesses do the same and some even make...

The joy of solving performance problems - Part 1

It took me some more time to have this first part ready, because I revised it quite a lot and in the recent evenings I didn't want to spend the necessary time...

The joy of finding performance problems - A foreword

# A journey Many interesting journeys start with a first step. There are lessons in them and no matter how much you have seen in the past, you always learn new...

Visualize

"The Matrix" ruined it a little bit for all of us. Outsiders have sometimes the impression that admins can find errors on their servers just by staring at the...