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IT Operations: Coping with Cloud

You’ll find no shortage of blog posts and thought pieces about how cloud computing has forever changed the IT landscape. The topic is usually addressed in an “adapt or die”…

2019: The Year of Meshing Around and Creating Chaos

It’s that time of year again—the time to reflect on the past year and anticipate the year ahead. For a number of years now, organizations of all sizes have been…

Surviving and Thriving in the Ephemeral World of Containers and Functions

With containers, microservices, and FaaS becoming even more integrated into hybrid and cloud environments, you must remain diligent to make sure you’re navigating these aspects of the modern app development…

Expanding Observability to Help DevOps Live Up to New Expectations

DevOps has grown from being seen as simply a supporting function to becoming an extremely value core part of the business which drives growth. As a result of this noticeably…

Giving Developers the Tools They Need to Innovate

The word “innovation” has come to mean various things. For many, it draws up images of great modern innovators. For developers, it’s the driving force behind a day’s work. It’s…

Making Dev + Ops Possible with Log Management

You know how the saying goes—you can’t optimize what you can’t measure, and you can’t measure what you can’t monitor. Perhaps this isn’t a time-tested proverb just yet, but it…

Think You Don’t Need User Experience Monitoring? Think Again.

Unless your user is actually experiencing a service or website as it’s meant to be experienced, it doesn’t matter if your monitoring tool says it’s up or down. These are…

Assessing the Need for Cloud Certifications

As the demand for cloud continues to grow, so does the demand for hiring the best engineers who understand how to manage and leverage public cloud services. Earlier this month,…

THWACKcamp2018 Preview – “Observability”: Just a Fancy Word for “Monitoring”? A Journey from What to Why

Have you registered for THWACKcamp™ 2018? What are you waiting for? This year’s event offers multiple sessions from both industry experts and SolarWinds Head Geeks™ on topics important to you,…

THWACKcamp 2018 – There’s an API for That: Introduction to the SolarWinds Orion SDK

We’re sure getting excited for THWACKcamp™ 2018, and I’m particularly excited for you to join me at one of my sessions, There’s an API for That: Introduction to the SolarWinds®…