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Scout Monitoring
Company blog · blog.scoutapp.com/blogprogrammingweb
Scout Monitoring is the company blog at blog.scoutapp.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2008, 35 different Hacker News readers have linked it 104 times, most often “Understanding Linux CPU Load - when should you be worried?”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Scout Monitoring provides error monitoring, log management, and APM for Ruby, Python, PHP, and Elixir applications.
Most-linked posts?
- Understanding Linux CPU Load - when should you be worried?4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2009-08-03
- From MySQL+MMM to MariaDB+Galera Cluster: A High Availability Makeover3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-09-24
- Understanding Disk I/O - when should you be worried?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-02-10
- A six pronged Rails performance philosophy2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-06-15
- Understanding CPU Steal Time - when should you be worried?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-07-25
- 3 pleasantly surprising PostgreSQL Indexing tricks2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-06-03
- Restricting process CPU usage using nice, cpulimit, and cgroups2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-11-04
- Running a freemium web app? Here's a big reason we're growing.2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-11-06
- Why we don't schedule deployments during off-hours2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-10-21
What Hacker News says?
20% sound ridiculous high, and I would ask where in the world of sanity that people got that number. If we look at freemium to paid conversion rates, 20% seems out-of-this world large. Almost no one has that high. Looking around, 1% or 2.5% is said to be the average for games[1][2][3]. Why would a pirate be 10 times more likely to be incited to buy a game, rather than those who play a game designed from the ground u…
Comment linking /articles/2009/11/04/running-a-freemium-web-app-heres-a-big-reason-were-growing
on “Pirates playing a game dev simulator complain about piracy”Submitted Docker: Git for deployment as a story · 318 points
HN discussionScout also detects these for Django, ordering by the most performing N+1s: http://blog.scoutapp.com/articles/2018/04/30/finding-and-fix...
Comment linking /articles/2018/04/30/finding-and-fixing-n-1s-in-django-apps
on “How not to structure database-backed web apps: performance bugs in the wild”Submitted Understanding Linux CPU Load - when should you be worried? as a story · 151 points
HN discussion[..] just start a blog. Nope, that's also not for you. Because blogging is a nearly full-time occupation, so don't expect to gain readership with that little precious time you have left from coding your product and working your day job. Successful blogs are written by well-funded competitors who don't have to code 18 hours a day and have capital to keep staff on payroll to blog/tweet/whatever and make as much attent…
Comment linking /articles/2010/10/21/why-we-dont-schedule-deployments-during-off-hours
on “After 4 years of self-funded coding marathons I feel "finished", care to talk?”Submitted Running a freemium web app? Here's a big reason we're growing. as a story · 125 points
HN discussionhttp://blog.scoutapp.com/articles/2013/09/24/from-mysql-mmm-... That explains how they chose to minimize deadlocks. Yes, if you use it incorrectly and/or for the wrong problem space, you will have issues. It isn't a magical solution to all problems. It is, however, an effective solution for a specific problem space.
Comment linking /articles/2013/09/24/from-mysql-mmm-to-mariadb-galera-cluster-a-high-availability-makeover
on “CoreOS Stable Release”Submitted We Just Undid Three Months of Dev work. Here's What We Learned. as a story · 98 points
HN discussioncan confirm. That said, one can often capture much of the performance benefit with Postgres indexes - basically, instead of trying to tightly-pack the base tables, copy the data into indexes which are tightly packed exactly as you need. Put another way, Postgres indexes are synchronously updated materialized views - and yes, the Postgres planner/optimizer will automatically answer queries from an index if it's faste…
Comment linking /articles/2016/05/31/3-postgresql-indexing-tricks-that-surprise-everyone
on “At 22 years old, Postgres might just be the most advanced database yet”Submitted Why we don't schedule deployments during off-hours as a story · 85 points
HN discussionActually we're also able to spend a lot more time now on things that really matter to our customers -- things that customers request, like more graphing options and better support for cloud instances. The cloud functionality is already available, and graphing is coming up fast. It's a real pleasure to finally have time to address these things, in addition to the sales and partnership efforts. Also, performance is si…
Comment linking /articles/2009/10/01/simplify-get-an-order-of-magnitude-speedup
on “We Just Undid Three Months of Dev work. Here's What We Learned.”Submitted Understanding CPU Steal Time - when should you be worried? as a story · 83 points
HN discussionI had an article published about MySQL tuning a while ago: http://blog.scoutapp.com/articles/2011/02/10/understanding-d... Always tune for your workload. Be sure to index your damn tables. And yes, measure.
Comment linking /articles/2011/02/10/understanding-disk-i-o-when-should-you-be-worried
on “Rails + MySQL scaling on a budget”Submitted "So, what do you do?" as a story · 62 points
HN discussionWe actually just talked about the monitoring stack we use at Scout. There isn't one do-it-all tool (if there is, it'd be pretty ugly). Scout,Monit,Hoptoad,New Relic, and Pingdom: http://blog.scoutapp.com/articles/2010/10/19/monitor-rails-c...
Comment linking /articles/2010/10/19/monitor-rails-cluster
on “Ask HN: What tools do you use to monitor your LAMP server(s)?”Submitted From Ruby to Go: a rewrite for the future as a story · 46 points
HN discussionJust read an article about it ( http://blog.scoutapp.com/articles/2013/09/24/from-mysql-mmm-... ), seems awesome; gonna take a deeper look at it. Thanks !
Comment linking /articles/2013/09/24/from-mysql-mmm-to-mariadb-galera-cluster-a-high-availability-makeover
on “Ask HN: What are Amazon RDS (multi-AZ DB hosting) alternatives?”Submitted Small Teams Need Redundant Skills as a story · 41 points
HN discussionYou can measure it quite easily with NewRelic installed. You will have a nice chat looks like this: https://cl.ly/232r1k1r2z0p Some good links about stolen cpu: http://blog.scoutapp.com/articles/2013/07/25/understanding-c... https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/understanding-aws-stolen-cpu-...
Comment linking /articles/2013/07/25/understanding-cpu-steal-time-when-should-you-be-worried
on “Ask HN: Experience DigitalOcean stolen cpu is very high?”Submitted When tech startups == closed restaurants as a story · 40 points
HN discussionSubmitted CouchDB in production as a story · 39 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is your Rails app under-provisioned? as a story · 35 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding Linux CPU stats as a story · 33 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Page Load Paradox as a story · 33 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scout Launches New Relic Alternative as a story · 31 points
HN discussionSubmitted From MySQL+MMM to MariaDB+Galera Cluster: A High Availability Makeover as a story · 31 points
HN discussionSubmitted (Part 2) We Just Undid Three Months of Dev work. Here's What We Learned. as a story · 30 points
HN discussionSubmitted Restricting process CPU usage using nice, cpulimit, and cgroups as a story · 29 points
HN discussionSubmitted Competitive advantages of developer-run businesses as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSubmitted The MySQL MyISAM and InnoDB engines and a grocery checkout as a story · 23 points
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