No, You Still Don’t Need a Blockchain
08/06/20 A couple of years ago, I wrote about why you don’t need a blockchain. Blockchain is one long transaction log that always gets written to and is never backed up. It’s a led…
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An IT Pro’s Declassified School Success Guide
08/05/20 Class is almost in session, and this year will look very different than it did in years past. Depending on the state and district, school officials have decided to continu…
Monitoring and Securing Cloud-Based Databases Is the Developer’s Responsibility
08/04/20 Modern application development requires more work to ensure the development path and the data it produces are fully in sync, secure, optimized, and error-free. This respon…
Data Security and Privacy at Home
08/03/20 With one of the largest threats to a company’s security and privacy being its own employees, having employees work remotely only adds to the risk. While this year’s Verizo…
Nominations for SolarWinds Inaugural IT Pro Day Awards Now Open
08/01/20 2020 has been a challenging, yet outstanding year for IT professionals. “Unique” doesn’t begin to describe the pressures and urgency of the many projects they’re addressin…
SysAdmin Day 2020: Business as Usual During the “New Different”
07/31/20 I’m not going to even try to pretend SysAdmin Day arrives this year under conditions anyone would call “business as usual.” I’m going to avoid the cliched and empty platit…
Zero instrumentation serverless observability with AWS SAM and CDK integrations
AWS recently enhanced its X-Ray service to provide deeper visibility into serverless applications by automatically capturing and analyzing trace data from Lambda functions, API Gat…
Monitor your Windows containers with Datadog
This article details how to monitor Windows containers running on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) using Datadog's monitoring and logging capabilities. It outlines the necessary Data…
How Digital Transformation Has Evolved Through COVID-19
07/30/20 There’s no debating the value of digital transformation when it comes to optimal business performance, but for many IT leaders, some digital initiatives are pushed to the …
Instrument your Python applications with Datadog and OpenTelemetry
This article highlights how Datadog and OpenTelemetry work together to provide comprehensive application tracing. By using OpenTelemetry for instrumentation and Datadog for analysi…
Why Investing in Open Source Is Valuable to ISVs
07/29/20 Open source is a fact of life at most organizations today. Even if you don’t directly publish open-source software, you are almost certainly using it. If you or your compa…
Could 2020 Be the Year of the IT Professional?
07/29/20 IT professionals are used to change and disruption. From dealing with unexpected hardware malfunctions to troubleshooting dodgy Wi-Fi, IT pros are some of the most resilie…