I have spoken before about how important it is for me and my team to make as many parts of the database stack match our larger infrastructure. One of the most crucial ways to do this is to make sure that not only are we deploying and managing databases using...

In case you don’t follow SysAdvent (in which case, why?? you are missing out on great content every year!), the post on December 6th this year was by Alice Goldfuss. I have tweeted a link to that post that day and since then my tweet has been quoted, responded to...

Sensu for monitoring Here at Sendgrid we spent the last couple of years porting a lot of our service and host monitoring to Sensu. Its solid API support meant we could write all sorts of tooling around it. We also liked the idea of standalone, client side checks that push...