Monitorama 2014: This One Weird Time-Series Math Trick
Tue, May 6, 2014 in Programming ConferencesMonitorama 2014 Portland has been a great show. I’ve enjoyed the technical nature of the talks, the diversity of the speakers, the topics from hilarious to thought-provoking, and the stage in a theater, set up for a Shakespearean tragedy.
I have also taken a lot of notes. For example, Toufic from Metafor Software suggested that the audience look into the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. I am proud of the slide that made its way into my talk as a result:
My slides are embedded below. Enjoy. I’ve also uploaded an Excel spreadsheet you can use to tinker with the math and reproduce my results. Let me know if I did anything wrong, please!
I'm Baron Schwartz, the founder and CEO of VividCortex. I am the author of High Performance MySQL and lots of open-source software for performance analysis, monitoring, and system administration. I contribute to various database communities such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, Redis and MongoDB. More about me.