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First Off, I want to thank Gary for giving me an opportunity to be a guest writer on his blog, it’s an honor.  My name is Dan Chilton and I have worked in technology for the past 20 years.  As an introduction, today I just want to tell the story of why I became a […]

There are a lot of explanations for the current Meltdown/Spectre crisis but many did not do a good job of explaining the core issue if how information is leaked from the secret side,  to the attackers side.  This is my attempt to explain it (mostly to myself to make sure I got it right). What […]

As performance analysts we often have to summarize large amounts of data in order to make engineering decisions or understand existing behavior.  This paper will help you do exactly that!  Many analysts know that using statistics can help, but statistical analysis is a huge field in itself and has its own complexity.  The article below […]

A downtime classic, for several months in 2013 the troubles of a very particular website were front page news across the US.  Full Story from Time Magazine (PDF) https://blog.newrelic.com/2014/03/26/depth-look-team-saved-healthcare-gov/