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Tech Career Origin Stories — SolarWinds TechPod 047

08/31/21 The tech industry is booming, and there are many opportunities to transition from other career paths – or to change your path within tech. Join Head Geek Chrystal Taylor a…

Monitor feature releases with Statsig's offering in the Datadog Marketplace

This article argues against overly manual release processes ("babysitting") and advocates for leveraging guardrail metrics – automated checks that define acceptable performance dur…

Improved Usability with a New Incident Header

FireHydrant has improved incident usability with a redesigned Incident Header. This new header displays elapsed time, allows quick editing of key incident details (like severity an…

How the Pandemic Impacted the Government’s Cloud Migration Plans

08/30/21 “Cloud-first” has been a government imperative for many years, but the pandemic usurped this strategy, making “cloud-now” a priority. The results have been transformationa…

Deploy ASP.NET Core applications to Azure App Service

The Datadog extension for Azure App Service simplifies monitoring .NET applications running in Azure by automatically installing the Datadog agent. This allows developers to gain f…

Monitor Conviva with Datadog

Please provide me with the article "A new Host Map for modern infrastructure"! I need the text of the article to be able to summarize it for you. Just paste the article content h…

Making Your Service Desk the GOAT

08/24/21 Imagine every time you visited the service desk to submit a ticket, you were greeted by the boisterous drums from the medley of the Olympics—you’d feel like a gold medalis…

The Parallax View [of Your IT Career]

08/23/21 The Parallax View is a 1974 movie starring Warren Beatty. It’s one of many 1970s-style “conspiracy” movies, if you’re looking for something else to binge while we ride out…

Best practices for collecting and managing serverless logs with Datadog

The AWS article details improvements to their X-Ray service, making distributed tracing for serverless applications significantly more robust and easier to use. These enhancements …

Resilient Infrastructure for a Secure Future

08/19/21 Each year, SolarWinds® surveys IT professionals around the world to gauge what’s most pressing on their minds, but also to understand their organization’s challenges and h…

How to detect security threats in Linux processes

The Google Cloud Workload Protection Findings feature proactively identifies and helps remediate runtime security issues like vulnerable packages, misconfigurations, and suspicious…

Release code confidently with Automatic Faulty Deployment Detection

This article likely discusses a platform or tool that provides a unified dashboard for monitoring and managing application performance. It highlights features like collecting servi…