Managed Desktop Devices at Scale — SolarWinds TechPod 029
07/21/20 What do IT managers and managed service providers (MSPs) have in common? They both manage a sea of desktop devices. Join the SolarWinds MSP™ Head Nerds while they discuss …
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Best practices for maintaining end-to-end tests
This Datadog article highlights how Synthetic Monitoring proactively identifies issues *before* real users encounter them by simulating user behavior across websites and applicatio…
Is This Real Life? An Unconventional Path to Head Geek
07/20/20 My Leslie Knope Moment Long-time listener, first time caller Liz Beavers here… Head Geek? It’s like when Leslie Knope won the election for Pawnee City Council. I’m pinchin…
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…