What the Hell is 'Load Average' Anyway? A Guide to Actually Understanding System Load
Last Tuesday at 3:47 AM, my phone goes off. Alerts. Again.
"Load average critical: 18.45 on prod-web-03"
I grab my laptop, squinting at the screen, SSH in, run top.
CPU usage: 23%.
...what?
Look, if you've done DevOps for more than a month, you've be...
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