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Monitoring System Health and Availability, and Logging: Part 4
One more piece of context must be added to the discussion I’ve written up here, here, and here, and that is the place of these operations in the 7-layer OSI communications model. The image above is copied from and linked … Continue reading
Monitoring System Health and Availability, and Logging: Part 3
Now that we’ve described how to sense error states and something about how to record logging information on systems running multiple processes, we’ll go into some deeper aspects of these activities. We’ll first discuss storing information so errors can be … Continue reading
Monitoring System Health and Availability, and Logging: Part 2
Continuing yesterday’s discussion of monitoring and logging, I wanted to work through a few specific cases and try to illustrate how things can be sensed in an organized way, and especially how errors of various types can be detected. To … Continue reading
Monitoring System Health and Availability, and Logging: Part 1
Ongoing Monitoring, or, What’s Happening Now? Any system with multiple processes or machines linked by communication channels must address real-time and communication issues. One of the important issues in managing such a system is monitoring it to ensure all of … Continue reading
Understanding and Monitoring Microservices Across Five Levels
Did I know anything about microservices (or DevOps, or…) when I landed at Universal recently? No, I did not. Did that stop me from figuring it out in short order? Nope. Did that stop me from being able to reverse-engineer … Continue reading
Station or Process Block Description
I have described the components of a solution here and have recently realized they should actually be referred to as components of a process. An overall process is composed of a bunch of stations or process blocks, generally joined together … Continue reading
Data Flow Diagrams
There are a couple of ways to represent the flow of data in any existing or proposed system. One is by creating a flow diagram using any notation you prefer that communicates the necessary understanding to all participants. I have … Continue reading
What To Be Aware Of Going Into A Project
Short answer: everything! Long answer: let’s actually talk about it. The more you understand about the things you might encounter when you try to solve a problem, the more likely you will be to make use of the right people’s … Continue reading
Interface Analysis
I’m pursuing yet another certification, this time the IIBA‘s CBAP, for Certified Business Analysis Professional. I chose a 35-hour training course run as a series of interactive webinars over seven successive weekend days and during the second session this past … Continue reading
What Drives The Scale Of A Business Or Simulation System?
The scale of a business or simulation (continuous or discrete-event) system can be driven by a number of factors. Scale can be measured in terms of CPU cycles, communication bandwidth, disk storage, dynamic memory usage, power consumption, and perhaps other … Continue reading
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