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Business lessons learned

Oct 07 by Andre

Scout, our server monitoring service, has grown quite a bit in 2009.

We've documented two big lessons learned on the Scout blog. The main points:

  • You will underestimate the ongoing cost of complexity in your product
  • Cool new capabilities don't sell themselves

Give it a read! We will have more hard-earned business lessons coming, so stay tuned.

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Load Averages, Explained

Aug 03 by Andre

Just did a writeup on Understanding CPU Load Averages over on the Scout Blog ... it uses a traffic analogy to illustrate what load averages numbers depending upon how many cores/processors you have.

If you like the post, feel free to upvote on hacker news!

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