Trending is all the rage and rightfully so. To put it as simply as possible this allows us to know what is going to break before it does. We have been using tools like cacti and HitBox for some time now to try and predict what to expect in our upcoming events.

One thing I have always struggled with is the bigger picture. What does the trend look like over the year or into next? Are we, as a whole, gaining ground or loosing it? What makes up those metrics? A new tool similar to Amazon’s Alexa has come out recently called compete.com Compete really isn’t that different but it does something important for me. It reinforces the data that Alexa has had a lock on for years. Using this data I can confidently say yes it does appear we are down 18% year over year.

The next step in all this is translating that into operations speak.. So this means we can reduce our footprint by 18%? Well no not exactly we are serving more dynamic content then ever and oh did we mention the new video service launching next week.. This is in part what makes operations interesting trying to find better ways to help scale but with reduced cost, smaller footprints, and oh right less POWER. Sounds like a topic for another post…..