Talk:Mark Burgess (computer scientist)

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I (as the subject of this page) have checked through the information and will attest to its general correctness. :) (Mark Burgess)

The notion of an equilibrium or steady state operation thus became the baseline, replacing arbitrary thresholds used in the monitoring software of the day. The software CFEngine became the proof of concept platform using these methods for system state anomaly detection, from 2002 to the present, but received little use. Modern monitoring companies Circonus (founded 2010) and Vivid Cortex (founded 2012) now implement these concepts in dedicated software products.

The statement of little use is utter bullshit which is repeated over and over... Maybe some people actually believe that. Truth is CFEngine has been the most widely used configuration management software and also, even now, still has substantial use especially in very large environments. Both due it's age / maturity / scalability it's reigned in environments with many thousands of systems with just few expections. Only Opsware (HP SA) and later (post-ERLANG rewrite, which was done specfically to become a CFEngine alternative for Facebook) have proven as viable alternatives. Yeah, so if you need a reference as to CFEngine scalability, refer to the Facebook talk, and keep in mind that their decision to switch was based on the very old CFEngine version 2.

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I am the subject of this page. How can I assist someone in cleaning it up, since I am not allowed to do this myself? There is plenty of reference material at markburgess.org — Preceding unsigned comment added by MarkBurgess (talk • contribs) 12:25, 25 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]