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Backlog of pull requests for Python module
Hi SWI Team There is a currently a backlog pull requests in the Git for the Python modules. There are a number of warnings/deprecation of certain items Please can this be reviewed - @Lofstrand FYI following our previous discussions. Thank you! Usage of dash-separated 'description-file' will not be supported in future…
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is Orionsdk-python still maintained, or is there a mature alternative?
There are multiple pending PRs that fix open issues, and no maintainers seem to be responding. https://github.com/solarwinds/orionsdk-python/pulls Has Solarwinds been abandoning the community use of the API, at least from Python? Should this github repository (which is owned by Solarwinds' organization) be…
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Who monitors the OrionSDK Git?
Does anyone know who maintains the SWI OrionSDK Git? I have a a pull request for updating the documentation but it needs approval/merging to update. github.com/.../374
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Could someone add CTEs or Subqueries to the SWQL functions github documentation page? (also aliases)
They work in some specific ways in the select statement, and in the from statement at least, and seem to be close-to-required for modern dashboards. If you're asking a DBA for the way they'd write the SQL to solve a problem, the WITH they'd normaly use doesn't work, and it looks as if there's no option for this, which…
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The Actuator - January 22nd
Back from Austin and home for a few weeks before I head...back to Austin for a live episode of SolarWinds Lab. Last week was the annual Head Geeks Summit, and it was good to be sequestered for a few days with just our team as we map out our plans for world domination in 2020 (or 2021, whatever it takes). As always, here's…
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The Actuator - October 16th
In Austin this week for THWACKcamp. I hope you're watching the event and reading this post later in the day. We tried a new format this year--I hope you enjoy what we built. As always, here are some links I found interesting this week. Enjoy! GitHub renews controversial $200,000 contract with ICE “At GitHub, we believe in…
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The Actuator – January 16th
Still no sign of snow here in New England, but baby it's cold outside! Looks like snow will get here soon enough, just in time for ice dam season. Lucky me. As always, here are some links from the Intertubz that I hope will hold your interest. Enjoy! Top 10 IoT vulnerabilities A good list that applies to IT security in…
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The Actuator – June 6th
The big news this week is Microsoft agreeing to purchase GitHub for $7.5 billion USD. Microsoft continues to push into an area where it can be viable for the next 20 years or more. Amazon and Microsoft are slowly cornering the marketing in infrastructure hosting and development, leaving Google and Apple behind. As always,…
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Infrastructure as Code
Infrastructure as Code is about the programmatic management of IT infrastructure, be it physical or virtual servers, network devices, or the variety of supporting appliances racked and stacked in our network closets and data centers. Historically, the problem has been managing an increasing number of servers after the…
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IT Trends for 2016 Part 5 – Containers
For the last couple years, the single hottest emerging trend in technology, a topic of conversation, the biggest buzzword, and a key criterion for designing both hardware and application bases has been the concept of containers. At this point, we have approaches from Docker, Google, Kubernetes (k8s), Mesos, and notably,…