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Performance Alerting: Is Louis Gray the Canary in Your Coal Mine?

Started by Stephen Pierzchala · 9 months ago

Yesterday in the Fast Company Live Fail Whale session [mention on Scoble's blog here], Paul Bucheit of FriendFeed jokingly said that his company’s external alerting mechanism was Louis Gray.
I cringed when I read that, as the last people who should be letting you know you hav ... Continue reading »

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  • I would say I'm fairly objective. :-)

    To be honest, FriendFeed knows about issues and typically solves them before I know about it. Paul's a good guy, but he gave me too much credit here.
  • I know. I was using you as a very public example of how not to do it. Too many firms actually rely on their customers to tell them when their site is down.

    The objective is to get companies to consider that internal monitoring is not enough - you can have the world's fastest site, and if no one can get to it, no one cares. :-)

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