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Instrument your Python applications with Datadog and OpenTelemetry

This article highlights how Datadog and OpenTelemetry work together to provide comprehensive application tracing. By using OpenTelemetry for instrumentation and Datadog for analysi…

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…

Could 2020 Be the Year of the IT Professional?

07/29/20 IT professionals are used to change and disruption. From dealing with unexpected hardware malfunctions to troubleshooting dodgy Wi-Fi, IT pros are some of the most resilie…

Introducing the Datadog mobile app

Please provide me with the article! I need the text of the article "Reduce your mean time to repair with the Datadog mobile app" to be able to summarize it for you. Just paste th…

Stream logs to Datadog with Amazon Data Firehose

The Datadog Observability Pipelines feature allows users to significantly reduce AWS log costs by filtering, transforming, and sampling log data *before* it reaches Datadog. This m…

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…

Why Monitoring Can Be the Lifesaver the Public Sector Needs

07/28/20 One of the business consequences from the pandemic—increased remote working—is causing technology challenges across most industries, including the public sector. Most empl…

3 Foundational Elements of Zero Trust You Can’t Do Without

07/27/20 While the concept of zero-trust security has many IT organizations thinking in terms of identity, access, and cloud services, zero trust must run on a solid foundation. We…

Using Non-Enterprise Gear in an Enterprise World

07/24/20 Different IT organizations have different needs. The one-man shop might find the best success with open-source software, while enterprises often need something a little mo…

SD-WAN or WAN Optimization?

SD-WAN or WAN Optimization? I love that question. And, in order to answer it correctly, let me first dispel a common misperception. The question assumes SD-WAN and WAN Optimization…

Save the Date Because THWACKcamp Is Back

07/22/20 The IT Knowledge Fest—THWACKcamp—is back for another year of spectacular content in 2020. In this, the ninth year of THWACKcamp, you’ll join with thousands of other techno…

3 Ways to Maintain Your Agency’s Focus on IT Modernization

07/21/20 Congress set the stage for IT modernization across the federal government by passing the Modernizing Government Technology (MGT) Act, allowing agencies to apply for a loan…