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Bandwidth and Traffic: Hunting Hogs
Woes of FlowA poem for Joe It uncovers source and destinationwithout hesitation.Both port and addressto troubleshoot they will clearly assess.Beware the bytes and packetsbundled in quintuplet...
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The Actuator – February 13th
Had a great time in Austin last week for Tech Field Day 18. Now I am getting ready for my next trip, to Darmstadt, Germany, and SQL Konferenz. If you are reading this and near Darmstadt the week of the...
View ArticleIT Operations: How SecOps Saves the Day
Few messages strike fear in the hearts of IT operations staff like the dreaded scan results from your security team. These messages often appear in your inbox early on Monday morning, which means it’s...
View ArticleThe Pros and Cons of Open-source Tools
Cost plays a factor in most IT decisions. Whether the costs are hardware- or software-related, understanding how the tool’s cost will affect the bottom line is important. Typically, it’s the engineer’s...
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Up and running with ARM
After four months, it is time again to write another article about another product.As it happens, we’ve added a new toy to our portfolio:SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)Some of you may know it...
View ArticleIdeas for Using Your MGT Act Funding
By Omar Rafik, SolarWinds Senior Manager, Federal Sales Engineering Here’s another interesting article with suggestions about how agencies might approach legacy application modernization and cloud...
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Everything I Needed to Know About IT, I Learned From “Spider-Man: Into the...
This is part 3 in a series that began here and continued here, which found life-lessons for IT practitioners up on the big screen in the movie “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”. (I did something...
View ArticleReal World Experiences of Hybrid IT – Part 3
If you’re just joining the series now, you can find the first two posts here and here. Last time, I talked about the various decision points and considerations when using the public cloud. In this...
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The Actuator – February 20th
This week’s Actuator comes to you live from Darmstadt, Germany - and from SQL Konferenz. If you're here, please stop me and say hello—I'd love to talk data and databases with you. And maybe some speck,...
View ArticleThe Luck of the Tech Pro
St. Patrick’s Day is right around the corner, so dust off your “Kiss Me, I’m Irish” shirt and celebrate! Before heading out to show off your Irish stepdancing skills, tell us about your luckiest...
View ArticleYou Can’t Fix What You Don't Measure
All successful cloud migration projects start with up-to-date knowledge of a company’s current infrastructure and application landscape. While it may seem obvious, many organisations don’t have a clear...
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Intro to Jenkins X CI/CD for Kubernetes
Jenkins X (JX) is an exciting new Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tool for Kubernetes users. It hides the complexities of operating Kubernetes by giving developers a simpler...
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How to “Live Tail” Kubernetes Logs
DevOps engineers wishing to troubleshoot Kubernetes applications can turn to log messages to pinpoint the cause of errors and their impact on the rest of the cluster. When troubleshooting a running...
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Will HTTP/2 Make Your Site Faster?
Version 1.1 of the venerable HTTP protocol powered the web for 18 years. Since then, websites have emerged from static, text-driven documents to interactive, media-rich applications. The fact that the...
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How to Troubleshoot Kubernetes Network Issues
Kubernetes is a container orchestrator that provides a robust, dynamic environment for reliable applications. Maintaining a Kubernetes cluster requires proactive maintenance and monitoring to help...
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DevOps as Plumbing
Let me tell you a story about plumbing. As a young homeowner, I was house-rich and cash-poor, and because of that I needed to handle breakdowns myself as much as possible. I learned to do electrical...
View ArticleWhat is Pega BPM?
BPM or Business Process Management helps in overseeing work processes and procedures in an association. It for the most part incorporates steps like examination, plan, demonstrating, execution,...
View ArticleExamining Digital Transformation
In this blog series, we’ve been looking at various methods of utilisation with cloud infrastructure. While cloud adoption can be beneficial to almost any organisation, change for change’s sake can be...
View ArticleWanted: Skills for a Hybrid IT World
By Omar Rafik, SolarWinds Senior Manager, Federal Sales Engineering Here’s an interesting blog on skills needed by federal IT pros. My team and I run into hybrid IT more and more frequently, and it’s...
View ArticleWhat Kind of Monitoring Tools Do I Need?
Many organizations grow each year in business scope and footprint. When I say footprint, it’s not merely the size of the organization, but the number of devices, hardware, and other data center-related...
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