Matt Loughran

All posts by Matt Loughran

1. How Okta Chased Down Severe System CPU Contention in MySQL

   May 22, 2015 |

   4 min read

   Sometimes fixing a problem causes or reveals a new one. And sometimes this sets off a chain reaction of problems and fixes, where each solution exposes a deeper issue. In technology, cascades like these are common, often painful, and occasionally welcome.

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2. Productionalizing ActiveMQ

   May 8, 2015 |

   4 min read

   This post describes our odyssey with ActiveMQ, an open-source version of the Java Messaging Service (JMS) API. We use ActiveMQ as the message broker among our app servers.

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