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No, You Still Don’t Need a Blockchain
A couple of years ago, I wrote about why you don’t need a blockchain. Blockchain is one long transaction log that always gets written to and is never backed up.…
Monitoring and Securing Cloud-Based Databases Is the Developer’s Responsibility
Modern application development requires more work to ensure the development path and the data it produces are fully in sync, secure, optimized, and error-free. This responsibility has increasingly fallen upon…
Why Investing in Open Source Is Valuable to ISVs
Open source is a fact of life at most organizations today. Even if you don’t directly publish open-source software, you are almost certainly using it. If you or your company…
Strategies for Staying at the Same Company Long Term
On Being a Lifer If you look at my bio, you might notice I have been at SentryOne for 9 years. That is a mini lifetime in tech. I like…
Agile Practices: Agility in the Unknown
What Does Agile Mean in Today’s World? Agility requires a certain mentality. One must constantly evaluate and adapt, and we are currently witnessing that on a global scale with the…
SentryOne Plan Explorer: An Origin Story
This year, SentryOne Plan Explorer is 10 years old. Recently, I reminisced with Greg Gonzalez (b|t) and Aaron Bertrand (b|t) about the decade-long journey of our favorite query tuning tool.…
Building Stellar Orion Reports From the Ground Up – SolarWinds Lab Episode #88
Reports are among one of the most powerful and ubiquitous aspects of the Orion Platform. Despite being right at people’s fingertips, they’re often overlooked or under-appreciated as a tool to provide robust…
The Importance of an Effective Disaster Recovery Plan
A few weeks after I started with an insurance company as a rookie COBOL developer, Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast and New Orleans. Because I worked for…
Orion SDK 101: Intro to PowerShell and Orion API – SolarWinds Lab Episode #86
In this 100-level class, Kevin M. Sparenberg, Technical Content Manager for THWACK®, presents a simple introduction to the SolarWinds® Orion® Software Development Kit (SDK). Instructions include how to download the…
