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Release It!
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Release It!

by Michael T. Nygard
March 2007
Intermediate to advanced
326 pages
9h 3m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Vital Signs

The incident had started about twenty minutes before Daniel called me. The operations center had escalated to the on-site team. David, the operations manager, had made the choice to bring me in as well.

Too much was on the line for our client to worry about interrupting a vacation day. Besides, I had told them not to hesitate to call me if I was needed.

We knew a few things at this point, twenty minutes into the incident:

  • Session counts were very high, higher than the day before.

  • Network bandwidth usage was high but not hitting a limit.

  • Application server page latency (response time) was high.

  • Web, application, and database CPU usage were low—really low.

  • Search servers, our usual culprit, were responding well. System stats looked ...

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