SolarWinds

Automation, End Users, and Industry Trends — SolarWinds TechPod 002

02/14/19 This episode of SolarWinds TechPod features Stephen Foskett, discussing his takeaways from Gestalt IT’s Tech Field Day Austin event, including behind-the-scenes insight in…

Migrating to the Cloud — SolarWinds TechPod 001

02/07/19 With SolarWinds, IT pros are discovering a smarter way to manage apps, servers, databases, and hybrid clouds. The shift starts here. It can be a struggle to find the right…

PostgresConf Silicon Valley

10/30/18 Did you miss us at PostgresConf Silicon Valley in San Jose? Have no fear! Here’s a sneak peek video of Baron Schwartz delivering his talk on database indexing: How to Inde…

How NOT to Monitor Your Database

06/28/18 Do you have experience putting out backend database fires? What were some things you wished you had done differently? Proactive database monitoring is more cost efficient,…

SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor & Grafana: Better Together

06/19/18 Many of our customers have asked us to integrate with Grafana, the popular open platform for analytics and monitoring. The wait is over: we’ve released a plugin that lets …

Monitor Critical Databases Confidently with the Sensitive Data Vault

06/01/18 Building extremely deep monitoring as a SaaS product has a drawback: we capture too much data for some customers’ compliance requirements. As a result, some companies have…

New Stats Exposed in Go’s database/SQL Package

05/22/18 If you keep up with the Go development cycle, then you’ll know Go recently entered its feature-freeze for the Go 1.11 release. One of the changes for this upcoming release…

SolarWinds Lab Episode 59: Cisco ASA Firewall Special: VPN, ACL, HA, Multi-context, and More

05/15/18 Cisco ASAs are the world’s most popular security appliance. Getting them online with basic firewall features is one thing, but how do you ensure you’re really protecting y…

How to Select the Right Queries to Optimize

04/18/18 Why is selecting the right queries to optimize so important? There are several reasons. Penny-Wise, Pound-Foolish Look at the forest, not just the trees, and optimize glob…

Numeric Optimization in Golang With Nelder-Mead and Gonum

03/12/18 Numeric optimization is a set of techniques for fitting a function to a dataset by iteratively refining estimates. Numeric optimization is one way to do things like curve-…

Announcement: p99 Percentile Metrics

03/01/18 I’m pleased to announce that SolarWinds® Database Performance Monitor (DPM) offers 99th percentile metrics to help understand latency outliers in a query workload. These m…

How To Buy Software 2018

02/26/18 Buying software solutions for your company is a skill just like any other business practice. To be effective at purchasing it is necessary to have a clear understanding of…