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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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…
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…
Strategies for Staying at the Same Company Long Term
07/28/20 On Being a Lifer If you look at my bio, you might notice I have been at SentryOne for 9 years. That is a mini lifetime in tech. I like to joke that I am the longest servin…
Agile Practices: Agility in the Unknown
07/08/20 What Does Agile Mean in Today’s World? Agility requires a certain mentality. One must constantly evaluate and adapt, and we are currently witnessing that on a global scale…
Is SQL Dead, Yet? NoSQL’s Rise in Popularity
07/01/20 Periodically, we hear proclamations that SQL is “dead.” For a long time, people have been commenting on how NoSQL stores are the inevitable grim reaper as far as RDBMS sys…
SentryOne Plan Explorer: An Origin Story
06/17/20 This year, SentryOne Plan Explorer is 10 years old. Recently, I reminisced with Greg Gonzalez (b|t) and Aaron Bertrand (b|t) about the decade-long journey of our favorite …
Building Stellar Orion Reports From the Ground Up – SolarWinds Lab Episode #88
06/17/20 Reports are among one of the most powerful and ubiquitous aspects of the Orion Platform. Despite being right at people’s fingertips, they’re often overlooked or under-appr…
The Importance of an Effective Disaster Recovery Plan
05/28/20 A few weeks after I started with an insurance company as a rookie COBOL developer, Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast and New Orleans. Because I worked for …
Orion SDK 101: Intro to PowerShell and Orion API – SolarWinds Lab Episode #86
04/15/20 In this 100-level class, Kevin M. Sparenberg, Technical Content Manager for THWACK®, presents a simple introduction to the SolarWinds® Orion® Software Development Kit (SDK…
When APM Isn’t Enough: Why DBAs Need Power Tools for Database Performance Monitoring
03/18/20 Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is taking the cloud by storm. 2019 saw very successful IPOs from DataDog and Dynatrace with multi-billion dollar valuations, as we…
5 Ways to Protect Your Databases From Ransomware
03/18/20 Ransomware attacks are on the rise—it feels like not a week goes by where you don’t hear about some company or municipality being the victim of a ransomware attack. While …