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Datadog API client libraries now available for Java and Go

This Datadog article details how to build effective executive dashboards by focusing on key business metrics, not just technical details. It emphasizes using clear visualizations, …

Webinar: Microsoft and Riverbed on Work-From-Anywhere Challenges and Exciting New Cloud Innovations

Are you using collaboration apps, joining video events and streaming more video? Of course you are — we all are! With the onset of COVID-19, businesses responded almost immediately…

Friendship Is Magic. And Harder Than It Looks.

07/17/20 Building relationships is no easy feat. It’s been my experience that it’s common for people (especially, but not exclusively, men) to connect with each other through activ…

How Gremlin monitors its own Chaos Engineering service with Datadog

This article details how to integrate Apache JMeter, a popular load testing tool, with Datadog for comprehensive performance monitoring. By utilizing the Datadog JMeter plugin, use…

A Successful ITSM Implementation Starts With 4 Checkboxes

07/16/20 You’ve been contemplating adopting a new ITSM solution for some time. The current one handles the bare minimum—it helps your team churn through a ticket queue—but you know…

Introducing the Datadog IoT Agent

The article details how the authors significantly reduced the size of their Go Agent binaries—by up to 77%—through a combination of techniques. These included utilizing UPX compres…

2020.2 Releases: Orion Map Updates, New Security Product Features, and More – SolarWinds Lab #89

07/15/20  SolarWinds 2020.2 product releases contain upgrades, improvements, and new features across the entire stack. Solutions for IT operations management, software-defined inf…

The Next Norm: Improving Network Resiliency and Security to Support Work-From-Anywhere (Part 4)

In Part 1 of this blog series, The Next Norm: Prepare to Work-from-Anywhere, we looked at the recent, explosive growth in work from home and the transition to the new norm, work fr…

The Harsh Realities of Working From Home

07/15/20 To the companies who’ve practiced remote work for years or are solely online, congrats! You’re probably thriving in this environment. But as IT practitioners we need to ac…

Future of Work Survey: How Companies Are Planning for a ‘Work from Anywhere’ World

As the “new normal” becomes just normal, companies are preparing for a large-scale, long-term shift to remote work, where increasingly employees will ‘work from anywhere.’ Although…

Supporting a Mobile Workforce Across the Public Sector

07/14/20 Over five million people work in the U.K. public sector, representing over 16% of all people in paid work, according to government figures. And mobile working is a reality…

Distributed Computing – When Everyone Is Working From Home

07/13/20 We’ve officially made it past day 100 in quarantine. I hope you’ve found your groove, perfected your at-home office/workspace, learned a new language, tested six new bread…