The Pros and Cons of Open-source Tools
02/15/19 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. …
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Automation, End Users, and Industry Trends — SolarWinds TechPod 002
02/14/19 This episode of SolarWinds TechPod features Stephen Foskett, discussing his takeaways from Gestalt IT’s Tech Field Day Austin event, including behind-the-scenes insight in…
IT Operations: How SecOps Saves the Day
02/13/19 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 Mon…
Monitoring MEAN stack applications with Datadog
The Datadog article details how to effectively monitor your Apache Kafka clusters using Datadog's integrations. It highlights Datadog's ability to collect key Kafka metrics—like me…
The Key Benefits of ESM in the Education Sector
02/12/19 Discover how the education sector can leverage enterprise service management (ESM) to drive efficiency and increase access to services better than ever before. The post Th…
Monitor CockroachDB performance metrics with Datadog
The article details a rebuild of InfluxData's time-series storage engine, TickDB, now written in Rust. This move significantly improves performance, particularly for high-volume, l…
To Cloud or Not to Cloud?
02/11/19 There’s a question I’m sure is keeping some IT managers and CTOs up at night. How do you know when it’s right to move a workload to the cloud? And when you finally make th…
Inspecting Index Usage In MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB
02/08/19 In my recent post about the Left-Prefix Index Rule, I explained how queries can use all or part of a compound (multi-column) index. Knowing what makes an index fully usabl…
Cloud Migration Is No Drama – Or Is It?
02/08/19 Great! You’ve made the decision to migrate to the cloud. What should be the first step towards that goal? The answer is: defining a cloud migration team that understands t…
Seeing IT Differently: Why IT Vendors Must Evolve
02/07/19 Companies don’t live forever, and when we see one go, we wonder what they did wrong, and more importantly, wonder how we avoid the same fate. The truth of the matter is, a…
Why You Should Start Seeing IT Differently
02/07/19 How new models could potentially shake up the future of IT While technology innovation has changed the world, the truth is the same big vendors have been running the same …