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Observability To Smooth Cloud Application Migration

Jarec

The ongoing trend among enterprises is the migration of systems to cloud-hosted platforms. Nearly 90% of respondents to a survey of CIOs stated that their company had some plan or strategy in place to migrate from on-premises deployments to the cloud...
- 23 Feb 2023
What is Modern Infrastructure?

peter.distefano

Understanding modern software applications isn’t just a question of what; it’s also a question of why. Why do we choose to use a particular technology? How does that technology serve the overall business needs? And when you have a problem...
- 10 Feb 2023
"Cloud Native" - What does that really mean?

Eric.Seidman

Ask a hundred IT pros and their managers what “cloud native” is, and you’ll get as many different definitions. In part it’s because public cloud providers (PCPs) seek to provide all things to all IT teams, but it’s also ...
- 2 Feb 2023
Observability for Microservice and Service Mesh Architectures

yfang

The Move to Microservices A microservice architecture is a service-based approach that breaks down applications into multiple discrete processes or services. A microservice development architecture offers significant advantages, such as better fault ...
- 24 Jan 2023
Application Observability

daniel.jackson

Today’s cloud environments rely on microservices, service meshes, containers, and orchestration tools and are too complex for traditional tools to measure and monitor performance metrics effectively. The number of interdependent services—...
- 23 Oct 2022
The Difference between DevOps and DevSecOps

melanie.achard

DevOps and DevSecOps are two strategies businesses use to achieve agile software development and streamline software pipelines. While DevOps and DevSecOps sound similar, there are some important differences. Let’s dig in and see how they s...
- 13 Jun 2022
DevOps: A Philosophy? A Job? An Entire Industry?

peter.distefano

When I came to SolarWinds in 2020, I was quickly immersed in the world of developers, application engineers, and IT operations. As I started talking to more customers about their roles, I came to understand each of the job functions uniquely—ea...
- 11 Mar 2022
What is CI/CD and How to Build ETL Processes

jmorehouse

In today’s world of heterogeneous data ecosystems, managing and consuming data can be cumbersome. Organizations often have multiple systems of truth in corresponding to the applications managing the data. While data engineers dream of software ...
- 14 Oct 2021
How Converting YAML to Build Pipelines Can Help Engineering Teams Be More Efficient

solarwinds_worldwide_llc

Engineering teams can only be as efficient as the processes they employ during development. The need for increased efficiency is why software development has shifted from the “waterfall” approach to a more responsive, agile methodology. I...
- 27 Jul 2021