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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…

Developers Are Not Building Shiny New Things

Some, maybe. But not most. Look, I have this theory. I also have data. And as with most stories in my life, it all starts with a trip to Las…

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.…

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…

Outcomes From Home

This post is not meant to be a typical “here’s how you work from home” post. This is not a post about routines, habits, equipment, or if you should shower…

The SolarWinds Guide to Work From Home: Introduction

Like so many things at SolarWinds, this blog series arose out of a genuine desire to help our fellow IT practitioners by sharing our experiences and offering lessons we learned…

When APM Isn’t Enough: Why DBAs Need Power Tools for Database Performance Monitoring

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is taking the cloud by storm. 2019 saw very successful IPOs from DataDog and Dynatrace with multi-billion dollar valuations, as well as the $1 billion acquisition…

5 Ways to Protect Your Databases From Ransomware

Ransomware attacks are on the rise—it feels like not a week goes by where you don’t hear about some company or municipality being the victim of a ransomware attack. While…

Building the People, Processes, and Technology for a Data-Driven Culture with Intelligent DataOps

The SentryOne team has kicked off 2020 with changes to our product portfolio that aren’t just enhancements. This evolution includes the introduction of new options for documenting and mapping your…