Geek Pride Day, The Extended Cut
06/08/21 Recently, in recognition of Geek Pride Day, PressBox asked Chrystal Taylor, Sascha Giese, and me to share our thoughts on what it meant to us to be a “geek” and how our ge…
06/08/21 Recently, in recognition of Geek Pride Day, PressBox asked Chrystal Taylor, Sascha Giese, and me to share our thoughts on what it meant to us to be a “geek” and how our ge…
06/07/21 Last summer, federal agencies responded to a request from Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) for insights into their IT modernization strategies and how Congress can help in the …
The new Bits AI SRE boasts significantly improved reasoning capabilities and is twice as fast as its predecessor, enabling it to resolve complex incidents more effectively. This up…
06/02/21 Traditional systems monitoring solutions poll various counters (typically simple network management protocol [SNMP]), pull in data and react to it. If an issue requiring a…
06/01/21 Welcome back! As we enter the halfway point of this five-part series, we’ll discuss Level 3 of the capability maturity model (CMM) and the role it plays in helping DBAs gr…
According to the Harvard Business Review, only 23% of companies are non-digital with few, if any products or operations that depend on digital technologies. The vast majority of or…
05/31/21 Last week shared some of my early experiences working in non-technical jobs, and the lessons I learned which turned out to be relevant to my IT career as well. If you miss…
05/28/21 To many developers and system administrators—and even to some database administrators—database engines are a black box. They’re complex pieces of software that, in some ca…
This article details how to integrate Datadog with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) for comprehensive monitoring. By utilizing the Datadog OCI integration, users can gain visibili…
05/27/21 Have you ever deployed a new application that ran fine at first, then slowed to crawl as more and more data was added? Or tried to run a report that took minutes or even h…
This article details how to monitor Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) managed instances using Datadog. It explains how to leverage Datadog's ECS integration to collect metrics…
This FireHydrant update focuses on enhanced integrations with Checkly and Google Meet, alongside improvements to Slack incident notifications and service management. Key updates in…