Today: Approaching the Infinite Hows, a Thermal Exchange, and the Internet at the Speed of Light

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1. The Infinite Hows Asking "how?" rather than "why?" in your next postmortem will get you the multiple and diverse perspectives that lead to solutions. John Allspaw gives hisargument against the Five Whys and offers an alternative approach you can apply today. 2. Easy and Elegant Time-Series Data If you're looking for an efficient and practical method of displaying time-series data, check out MetricsGraphics.js, a data-source agnostic library built on top of D3. Easily construct interactive narratives using a layout template based on Bootstrapand tell your stories in an elegant and concise way with this lightweight tool. 3. The Solid Conference Is Back! Solid, the O'Reilly Internet of Things conference, will be returning to Fort Mason in San Francisco June 23-25, 2015. It's already shaping up to be another amazing event and the Call for Speakers has just opened. If you're interested in speaking at Solid, take a look at the topics we're most interested in and get tips for creating a great proposal. Learn more → 4. Glitch Management Prepare yourself against unexpected outages by building resilient systems and testing them regularly. clumsy, a new tool for Windows, helps with the testing bit by randomly degrading a network connection, but in a managed and interactive way. 5. Distributed Thermal Exchange What if you could take all that excess heat data centers traditionally spend hefty sums to dissipate and use it to offset the office HVAC or provide your home with hot water? Germany-based Cloud&Heat is leading the way with a self-contained system that provides free heat and hot water in exchange for storing a cabinet full of servers. Sponsored Content You Can't Change What You Don't Measure Pinpointing the specific reason why your website's performance isn't what it could be is a lot harder when you're not measuring the right things. Join Mehdi Daoudi, CEO and Co-founder of Catchpoint Systems, as he explains the importance of measurement in serving your users and how to analyze the data you collect in order to draw sound conclusions. He'll also show you how to relate monitoring data to business metrics and institute a culture of performance within your organization. 6. The Internet at the Speed of Light Despite our best efforts, today's Internet can be orders of magnitude slower than the speed of light. A team from UIUC and Duke have taken on the challenge of finding out what causes such lag and have released a paper that will help us all get closer to building a speed-of-light Internet. 7. Automate the easy way with Ansible Among the many configuration management tools available, Ansible has some distinct advantages: it’s minimal in nature, you don’t need to install anything on your nodes, and it has an easy learning curve. Get a preview of O'Reilly's Ansible Up & Running and get started with Ansible today. Thank you toAnsible for sponsoring this free preview! 8. Come Celebrate Velocity Barcelona Early The O'Reilly Velocity Conference starts next week in Barcelona, but we're kicking things off early. Come celebrate the people and technologies that are building a faster, scalable, reliant, and responsive web. Whether you're in Barcelona, inspired to ramp up your automation, or at your own desk, deep into your own monitoring project, you'll find the resources and training you need to do your job faster, more easily, and more expertly—at half-price.