Today, my blog turned 18 years old! I published my first blog entry on June 18, 2007 and have since published over 300 posts. The first blog entry, like most of my others, was about systematic troubleshooting and performance optimization of various (Oracle) database workloads and especially their touchpoint with underlying Unix/Linux operating systems, storage and network I/O. The articles covering interactions between multiple layers of your application stack and how to navigate troubleshoot...