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…
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The American Rescue Plan Helps With Federal IT Modernization. Where Should Agencies Start?
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 …
Streamline incident management with BigPanda's offering in the Datadog Marketplace
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…
Do You Need an Alert for Your Alerts? Building Smarter Monitoring Systems
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…
A DBA’s Habit for Success: CMMI (Part Three)
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…
The Transformative Power of Technology: Understanding the Business and Economic Impact of Digitization
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…
Nothing is Ever Wasted (part 2)
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…
What Happens When I Execute a Query?
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…
Monitor Oracle Arm-based Ampere A1 instances with Datadog
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…
Why Does My Database Need Indexes?
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…
Monitor Amazon ECS Anywhere with Datadog
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…
New Integrations and more
This FireHydrant update focuses on enhanced integrations with Checkly and Google Meet, alongside improvements to Slack incident notifications and service management. Key updates in…