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Operational Envelopes
Boundary helps distributed systems operators by providing insights into their infrastructure using network flow data. Of the questions an infrastructure operator might ask, one of the most important is...
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Incuriosity Killed the Infrastructure: Getting Ahead of Riak Performance and...
Thursday and Friday of last week saw some major improvements to our Kobayashi/Riak cluster in terms of both resource consumption and performance. I originally circulated this writeup internally at...
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SIMPLE monitor real-time transaction data traffic flow to enable service...
Follow @boundary GUEST BLOG: Simple – Follow @simplify // Any time you want to build something, there is a gap to overcome: your desired outcome versus the available tools. At Simple, we want to...
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Lack of Speedy Insight Kills Applications in the Cloud
Yesterday, Amazon experienced a degradation of services — you probably heard about it. The incident started small, when EBS volumes in a single availability zone in the US-East-1 region experienced...
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Know Your IaaS: Boundary Identifies Performance Lags Introduced by the Cloud
With the holidays approaching – and along with them, a critical e-commerce season – vendors are spending millions to identify performance lags, ensure low latency and uniform performance across their...
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APM with AppDynamics and Boundary: Modern Performance Monitoring for Modern...
GUEST BLOG: Thanks to App Man | APM Crusader at AppDynamics – Follow @appdynamics Mattie Stepanek, an American poet, once said, “Unity is strength… when there is teamwork and collaboration,...
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Software Defined Networking: The conversation has begun (between applications...
The conversation has begun (between applications and networks) Guest blog. Thanks to David Lenrow at Plexxi In our last guest blog (Applications to Networks) at Boundary, we discussed the vision that...
View ArticleBoundary Tech Talks – Terence Parr: parser generator ANTLR
Two weeks ago we had the special parser edition of the Boundary tech talks. Our guest, Dr. Terence Parr, introduced the latest version of his parser generator ANTLR4 code named "Honey Badger". To...
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Passively Monitoring Network Round-Trip Times
This post describes how Boundary uses a well-known TCP mechanism to calculate round-trip times (RTTs) between any two hosts by passively monitoring TCP traffic flows, i.e., without actively launching...
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One Second Resolution
A question that I often get is, “why does Boundary collect and show one second data?” After all, so far the application monitoring and management industry has gotten by on sampling and averaging...
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Cripple the Prototype
My friend Zac shared an interesting idea with me: “If you’re working on a prototype of something that has you very excited, cripple it. Intentionally sabotage your project in a way rendering it wholly...
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Deploying Boundary within AWS OpsWorks Stacks
AWS OpsWorks is the latest addition to the AWS family of services. As mentioned here on the blog before we support OpsWorks. OpsWorks is built on Chef, here at Boundary we are big fans of Chef. We have...
View ArticleApproximate Heavy Hitters -The SpaceSaving Algorithm
Here at Boundary we do analytics a little bit differently than the standard “store it and batch it” approach. We’ve built a streaming analytics system that processes data as it comes to us in real...
View ArticleEarly Warning Alerts on Retransmits, Out of Order Packets and TCP Round-Trip...
I’m pleased to announce Boundary has added new early warning alerting capabilities for Retransmits, Out of Order Packets and TCP Round-Trip Time. Managing modern applications is difficult and if you’re...
View ArticleGuest Post: Using Boundary for Network Traffic Monitoring, Service Chatter
Guest post by Stephane Bailliez, Principal Software Engineer, Gilt Groupe (originally published on Gilt’s tech blog) We recently published a case study with Boundary regarding how we at Gilt Groupe are...
View ArticleCustomer viewpoint: Using Boundary to troubleshoot a new distributed system
Guest post from Colin Rand, Director of Engineering, Social Products at ExactTarget. Read more from Colin on his blog, Dataerous. The original post is here. I looked at the Boundary dashboard for one...
View ArticleBoundary Shout-Out @VisualDNA Adrian Cockcroft, Netflix
Adrian Cockcroft of Netflix was in London recently discussing how Netflix manage for scale and complexity. The discussion was captured and posted (See Below). Adrian talks about Netflix’s...
View ArticleFriday the 13th brings in more AWS woes
Today, Amazon experienced a degradation of services — you probably heard about it. It was reported that an encryption key storage service inside Amazon Web Services, the Hardware Security Module...
View ArticleThe Infrastructure Engineers Guide To Entrepreneurship
The Infrastructure Engineer’s Dilemma This guide is for the infrastructure engineers of the computing world. You might wonder what I mean by infrastructure engineer. Specifically I’m talking about the...
View ArticleBoundary Meter 2.0 – Design
C is a very simple and powerful language. Because it does not enforce a particular style or organization of code, it can also be very dangerous and easy to write spaghetti code. As they say, it gives...
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