Introducing Mezmo at Cloud Field Day 18

Observability is all the rage. Why? All of the platforms and applications we run will fail or have suboptimal performance. Errors happen. The only way you can understand what’s going on is with having as much data that can be mined for signals. Observability as a practice is about being able to ask questions of … Read more

What is a Jupyter Notebook?

A Jupyter Notebook is a powerful and interactive computational tool that has become essential for various tasks in data analysis, machine learning, scientific computing, and education. Technologists are digging in to how more data analysis can help with many active tasks we struggle with today. As the saying goes, “see a need, fill a need”. … Read more

JetStream Software at Cloud Field Day 17

You had me at DR. This was my first introduction to JetStream Software and they have done a great job of nailing the story of the VMware disaster recovery challenge. How can you get extremely low RTO and RPO without risking performance or cost? Optimizing VMware DR JetStream is purely focused on the VMware ecosystem. … Read more

Couchbase at Cloud Field Day 17

NoSQL is rapidly becoming a de facto database choice for many modern applications. The new Capella platform from Couchbase is a flexible DBaaS option for developers who love the NoSQL environment in a scalable, hosted platform. What problems does Couchbase solve? It’s not hard to guess that performance and costs are top if mind. Couchbase … Read more