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The Evolution of Applications and Current Trends To Know

IT industry veterans have seen significant changes in the way applications are not only developed but also used. This evolution has been driven by several factors, including the ever-growing need…

SolarWinds Observability: Helping to Accelerate Application Development

By Scott Sinclair, Enterprise Strategy Group Practice Director; and Monya Keane, Senior Research Analyst Today’s businesses are digital, with applications playing a big role in their success. This means they…

Can an Application Exist Today Without a Database?

As a data professional, I often think about all the things around me generating data and consider where this data is ultimately being used. Have you ever taken a minute…

What to Know Before Becoming an Application Engineer

Application engineers play a crucial role in bridging customer needs and the efforts of application development teams. Applications are becoming more complex—businesses are seeking to deliver more services while the…

Five Reasons Why Python Is Popular

One of my first projects as a consultant created a web application for a small tax software company in Omaha, Nebraska. They were looking to improve their online presence by…

What is System Integration? How Your Organization Can Benefit and Implement

Most IT systems don’t operate in a vacuum—they have dependencies on other systems. And as organizations attempt to grow while trying to maximize their bottom lines, they soon discover it…

What’s a Webhook?

If you’re a developer or site reliability engineer, you might have noticed options to use webhooks in your cloud monitoring or automation settings. And if you have a great deal…

The Papertrail SaaS Add-On in DigitalOcean Centralizes Everything You Need for Log Management

The SolarWinds® Papertrail™ software as a service (SaaS) Add-On in the DigitalOcean Marketplace is one of the most exciting developments to come out of the DigitalOcean and Papertrail partnership. With…

How to Optimize Your WordPress Site With Pingdom Real User Monitoring

Learn how to capture insights from the end user down to the application To keep their applications and websites available and accessible, today’s businesses put a lot of emphasis on…

How We Monitor Elasticsearch With Metrics and Logs

As an architect at SolarWinds, it’s essential to work with our own monitoring tools as a form of quality control and source for innovation. As one of the largest players in the…