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The other day, as is often the case when an engineer is deep in a troubleshooting task that requires a restart if interrupted, I got a request for advice. “Hey, if you have a second I wanted to ask a question about standardizing DevOps tools. Should my friend use Chef, Puppet, or something else to get DevOps going?” He…
I’ve come to a crossroads. Regular SolarWinds Lab viewers and new THWACKcamp attendees might have noticed my fondness for all things programmable. I can’t help smiling when I talk about it; I came to enterprise IT after a decade as a developer. But if you run across my spoor outside of SolarWinds, you may notice a…
So at the end of the day, somehow the bills have to be paid. Many companies may "absorb" the cost of SolarWinds. I personally am at a crossroads where I want to recoup the costs for SolarWinds, especially as I move the platform to a more application centric monitoring model. The business (non -IT), development, and…
I attended DevOpsDays last week, and have had time to get my head around what’s going on with SolarWinds customers. And this being thwack, (my safe place), I want to brag on you all a bit. Something amazing is happening, and you, the members of thwack, are at the center of it. Sharp IT admins, from very small companies all…
I've mentioned it before, but The Big Bang Theory is one of my absolute favorite TV shows and if you're a geek like me you really ought to check it out sometime. Spoiler alert - if you watch the show I'm just about to discuss this week's episode... This week they did a bit where the guys had been following Adam West around…
As I'm trying to explain Towel Day to the non-geek folks in my life, I'm struck yet again with how few people know about the brilliance of Douglas Adams. The conversations always seem to go something like this. "Seriously?! You've never heard of Hitchhiker's Guide? Hollywood even made that one into a (bad) movie?! I…
I can't believe I get to say that. I have been using SolarWinds products since 2003, and a member of Thwack for almost as long. But until this week, I hadn't thought about how it would feel to write a blog post like this. It's been an interesting journey to this point I started out 25 years ago as a classroom trainer…
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