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The Case for a conf.yaml Linter and Quick Tester: An Experience with Datadog
A Tale of a Typo: How a Small Error Revealed UX Issues in Datadog As an ardent user of Datadog's monitoring and analytics platform, I...
kyle Hailey
Jun 30, 20233 min read
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Why does my Postgres have major Replication Lag ?? ( monitoring with Datadog)
TL;DR Set hot_standby_feedback on to get rid of replication delay. All the documentation on replication I found only talked about network...
kyle Hailey
Jun 29, 20234 min read
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Unleashing Pandora's Box: The Risks of AI Interacting with the Real World"
In numerous conversations about AI, its agency, and its capacity to interact with the real world, it's astonishing to me that Blake...
kyle Hailey
Jun 21, 202310 min read
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AI Art: The Uncharted Frontier of Creativity
Is AI art truly art? The question seems simple, but it's one that has provoked impassioned debate among artists and audiences alike. A ...
kyle Hailey
Jun 17, 20235 min read
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AAS : THE metric for Monitoring DB Performance
Embarcadero DB Optimizer Datadog DBM Oracle OEM Amazon Performance Insights Average Active Sessions, or AAS, is the core metric...
kyle Hailey
Jun 15, 202316 min read
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Most important performance metric on a database
This applies to Operating Systems and Application Servers, it is just that no one has synthesized the data as simple as I have on...
kyle Hailey
Jun 14, 20234 min read
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Postgres Partition Pains - LockManager Waits
1000 Fetch errors a second, 500 sessions waiting on LockManager, 150,000 locks In above graphs, our production system hit the wall by a...
kyle Hailey
Jun 13, 20239 min read
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Postgres : monitoring active users in Dbeaver
The core of performance monitoring on Postgres is pg_stat_activity. While tools like RDS Performance Insights, Datadog DBM or GCP Query...
kyle Hailey
Jun 8, 20233 min read
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The UCAV AI kills the operator for hindering its objective
NOTE: Make what you will of this blog post. This blog post is about an article from Royal Aeronautical Society , describing an AI...
kyle Hailey
Jun 1, 20234 min read
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Embracing Diversity in AI: A Lesson from Biology
Recently, someone on Twitter posed a question: "Why should I follow women in AI thought leadership?" This question, laden with...
kyle Hailey
May 23, 20232 min read
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AI: The Prodigy Child of Humanity - Shaping the Future through Love and Guidance"
In the garden of AI, a tender seed takes root, a reflection of our own humanity, sprouting from the loam. As children, they seek...
kyle Hailey
May 17, 20233 min read
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AI as Therapy : The Hero's (Mid ) Journey
Users go through an evolution in 3 months that artists go over in 10 years. It’s is rapidly evolving our sense of selves and aesthetics.
kyle Hailey
May 17, 20234 min read
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AI: The Death Knell of Traditional Art, or the Dawn of a New Creative Era?
The advent of photography in the mid-19th century acted as a catalyst for a fundamental shift in the art world. Prior to its invention,...
kyle Hailey
May 16, 20232 min read
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GraphGPT and Visual SQL Tuning
Graph GPT, https://github.com/varunshenoy/GraphGPT , looks like it could be used in Visual SQL Tuning, https://www.kylehailey.com/post/w...
kyle Hailey
Apr 27, 20231 min read
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Exploring GCP's Postgres Throughput: Insights from Explain Analyze
Was wondering what the the throughput was on Cloud SQL so ran some tests. I have about 20 partitions ranging from 10-100GB. I iterated...
kyle Hailey
Apr 26, 20233 min read
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Critical Upgrade Crisis: When Datadog on GCP Stalled Amid RAM Issues - How It Happened and Lessons
So I had to make modifications on a 15,000 query a second 10TB database with as little downtime. Many of the operations had potential to...
kyle Hailey
Apr 22, 20234 min read
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Warning: PQ not monitoring in Datadog nor Query Insights (nor Performance Insights)
Say you want to test out the speed of Parallel Query on Postgres You kick off a query ... well how do you know it is running in parallel?...
kyle Hailey
Apr 22, 20231 min read
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Google Cloud SQL API to get a list of Cloud SQL instances and generate a yaml for datadog
TL;DR result is on GIST at https://gist.github.com/kyle-hailey/b7527e38128660ad7c35f06fe820d1be guess I'm a grumpy old man, but computer...
kyle Hailey
Apr 21, 20234 min read
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Unlocking AI's True Potential: Shifting Focus to Create a Brighter, More Equitable Future
Thoughts for this week In a world full of abundance, yet unevenly distributed, it's time to shift our perspective on AI from potential...
kyle Hailey
Apr 17, 20232 min read
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Unleash Your AI Artistry: Join Our Graffiti Mural Hackathon for a Unique Live Art Experience
Hackathon with $200 for the winner Are you ready to push the boundaries of your creativity and leave your mark on an unforgettable live...

Artwave.ai
Apr 17, 20232 min read
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