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On this episode of SolarWinds TechPod, our host Patrick Hubbard, SolarWinds Head Geek, is joined by Mike Pfeiffer, a twenty-year tech industry veteran who’s worked for some of the largest technology companies in the world, including Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS). We’ll help you make sense of cloud and application…
There’s a revolution underway with application deployment, and you may or may not be aware of it. We’re seeing a move by businesses to adopt technology the large public cloud providers have been using for many years, and that trend is only going to increase. In my previous post on digital transformation, I looked at…
It’s almost that time of year! We’re in full preparation mode for THWACKcamp 2018 and can’t wait for you to experience our sessions. Covering everything from network monitoring and management, virtualization, logging, and more, this year’s lineup goes further into making sure you hear the best from our pool of tech…
In a distributed tracing architecture, we need to define the microservices that work inside it. We also need to distinguish the “component” behavior from the “user” behavior and experience – similar words, but totally different concepts. We should think of the multitude of microservices that constitute a whole…
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. -Lao Tsu In this, my second post in a five-part series, I’m approaching the concept of microservices as being analogous to my life. Hopefully, my experience will assist you in your life as an IT pro, and also serve as a life hack. I’ve written about microservices…
Continuous integration. Continuous delivery. Cloud. Containers. Microservices. Serverless. IoT. Buzzworthy tech constructs and concepts are signaling a change for IT professionals. As IT pros adapt and evolve, the application remains the center of the change storm. More importantly, the end goal for IT remains essentially…
By Joe Kim, SolarWinds Chief Technology Officer With container adoption on the rise, I wanted to share a blog written in 2016 by my SolarWinds colleague, Kong Yang. While the initial inroads are primarily still in the education phase, container technology has started making its way into federal IT networks, and the appeal…
Devops, the process of creating code internally in an effort to streamline the functions of the administrative processes within the framework of the functions of the sysadmin, are still emerging within IT departments across the globe. These tasks have traditionally revolved around the mechanical functions the sysadmin has…
In traditional IT, the SysAdmin’s role has been established as supporting the infrastructure in its current dynamic. Being able to consistently stand up architecture in support of new and growing applications, build test/dev environments, and ensure that these are delivered quickly, consistently, and with a level of…
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