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Finding the Sweet Spot Between Innovation and Optimization

04/08/24 Balancing growth and performance optimization is a constant tension in all aspects of business. This is particularly true in DevOps, where there’s a drive to release more …

Saving Customers Money Through Thoughtful Solutions to Long-Term Problems

03/07/23 We strive to understand not only the unique challenges they face but how those challenges affect their business on daily and in the long term. In doing so, we’ve been able…

Three Critical Questions for Healthcare

07/13/22 Why Should Healthcare Bother With IT? Healthcare has always been people-centric—so should IT even be a consideration when the real issue is people? Before the pandemic, he…

SolarWinds Expands Global Intern Program With Virtual Career Fairs in 2022

02/22/22 At SolarWinds, we are a people-first company. Our purpose is to enrich the lives of the people we serve—including our employees, customers, shareholders, Partners, and com…

Don’t Fear the Automation

01/21/22 Automation is often portrayed as a scary thing. Whether it’s artificially intelligent robots conquering the planet or a world where no one can find work because automatons…

Are We Still Scared of IT Automation?

10/07/21 This thread came in a weird way as a result of seeing yet another re-run of the classic movie “Back to the Future” the other day. Bear with me on this one, and hopefully i…

You Can Only Fix What You Measure (So Measure What You Want to Fix)

08/13/21 Recently, my colleagues Pete Di Stefano, Ashley Adams, and I hosted a webcast on the topic of capacity planning and optimization. You can listen/watch it here, it was a re…

Building a Network Architecture to Support the Next Phase of Remote Work

08/02/21 The global pandemic continues to fluctuate, but the reliance on IT services and teams to support service continuity in the public sector remains steady. To ensure network …

Finding Zen in the Tedium

07/26/21 As often happens, I was recently talking about my son and his attitude regarding chores. Doing the thing parents do, commiserating and getting advice from another parent w…

Confidence

07/02/21 Imposter syndrome is, unfortunately, an evergreen topic within IT circles. For whatever reason, many of us who make our living in technology—who put in long hours acquirin…

You Have to EARN the Gorilla Suit

06/29/21 There’s an old joke that goes something like this: back in the days of vaudeville, comedy acts were all the rage. This young guy wants to get into the business, but he’s n…

No Experience Left Behind

06/25/21 While Leon beat me to it, I was inspired by this Twitter post by @Gabsmashh to write a more involved post about what I learned from past work experience that has helped me…