Platform engineering started appearing in 2017 and was identified as a distinct DevOps role in 2019 in the book Team Topologies. Adoption quickly accelerates, and by 2022, there are platform…
The exponential growth of applications and digital commerce has met with unprecedented security breaches across software supply chains. At SolarWinds Day: Secure by Design, I closed a panel led by…
Organizations implementing observability in their digital services architecture should be familiar with OpenTelemetry (OTEL) framework. While our OTEL guide provides an in-depth examination of the benefits of this open-source framework,…
By Tony Palmer, Principal Validation Analyst; and Justin Boyer, Validation Analyst Modern application architecture focuses on microservices and cloud-first architecture, which means there are many smaller applications connecting to each…
Security is a never-ending journey that evolves as you add new products and applications. There’s no such thing as being 100% secure because things constantly move and adjust within your…
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…
We’ve heard a lot about hyperscalers over the last several years as public cloud adoption began to rise. Now, they’ve become a central part of global IT infrastructure and essential…
Over the past several years, there has been a big focus on streamlining infrastructure operations. Many organizations have begun using DevOps principles in their software development and operations activities. We’ve…
Both DevOps and ITIL are two popular frameworks in the IT space and get a lot of attention. However, while both are frameworks, DevOps is more of a collaboration method…
Digital services are increasingly built as a collection of components working in concert to deliver significant business functions. Understanding how these components of a system are working is crucial to…
