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5 IT Service Management Resolutions for 2020

12/19/19 For many, New Year’s resolutions emphasize a fresh start and becoming better versions of themselves; adopting a healthier lifestyle, being more organized, starting a busin…

SAP HANA monitoring with Datadog

This article details how to monitor your Databricks environments using Datadog, providing full visibility into clusters, jobs, and SQL warehouses. It outlines how to leverage Datad…

Unplanned Obsolescence

12/18/19 As we head into the new year, people will once again start quoting a popular list describing the things kids starting college in 2020 will never personally experience. Exa…

Introducing Datadog Agent 7

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Monitor Cilium with Datadog

The article details common misconfigurations in Cilium network policies that unintentionally block legitimate traffic. Specifically, it highlights issues with selectors (targeting …

Using User Access Management to Defend Against Insider Threats

12/17/19 According to the SolarWinds 2019 Cybersecurity Survey, cybersecurity threats are increasing—particularly the threat of accidental data exposure from people inside the agen…

[De]Constructing Cloud With Mike Pfeiffer — SolarWinds TechPod 021

12/17/19 On this episode of SolarWinds TechPod, our host Patrick Hubbard, SolarWinds Head Geek, is joined by Mike Pfeiffer, a twenty-year tech industry veteran who’s worked for som…

Don’t Let Technical Debt Be Your Company’s Subprime Loan: Mapping Your Way to Better Software

12/16/19 I was in the pub recently for the local quiz and afterwards, I got talking to someone I hadn’t seen for a while. After a few minutes, we started discussing a certain app h…

Monitor systemd with Datadog

The article details how Netflix improved the efficiency of collecting and processing live process metrics by 100x. They achieved this by moving from collecting detailed, high-cardi…

Holt-Winters Forecasting and Exponential Smoothing Simplified

12/15/19 Holt-Winters forecasting is a way to model and predict the behavior of a sequence of values over time—a time series. Holt-Winters is one of the most popular forecasting te…

Lockdown: Improving SQL Server Performance for Vendor-Locked Applications

12/13/19 Application vendors support many customers, and they often need to impose some control over variables in order to do so. For example, for me to help someone with the perfo…

Just Throw It in the Cloud! The Battle of the Clouds Series

12/13/19 Scenario: a mission-critical application is having performance issues during peak business hours. App developers blame the storage. The storage team blames the network. Th…