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A main focus for database administrators (DBAs) is to ensure server environments are optimized and performance is at its peak. Whether you’re a DBA starting in a new role and are evaluating an existing environment for the first time, or you’re a senior database professional with the ongoing task of maintaining optimal performance, following key SQL Server best practices for installing, configuring, and ensuring new instances of SQL Server are consistently deployed is all in a day’s work.

Another major outage on the Internet has taken place today. Telia, a major backbone carrier in Europe, suffered from a network routing issue between 16:00 and 17:05 UTC. This had a huge ripple effect, causing issues for multiple key companies providing critical cloud and infrastructure services. Companies affected include: - Google Cloud - Equinix Metal - Cloudflare - Fastly - NS1 It’s always arresting to see the secondary and tertiary effects that a major outage can have.

On October 4, 2021, an outage took Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram down for six hours. This major outage is a powerful and high-profile example of the difficulties facing those tasked with managing modern network architectures.

Developing modern applications is harder than ever, with microservices and cloud deployment models making it harder to get things working than ever before. However, anyone who’s deployed an application knows that that’s just the beginning of the work. The biggest part comes later: ensuring it works correctly, with maximum efficiency and great performance.

Your website is critical to your business. It is your digital shopfront where you engage with the world and turn prospects into customers. To convert the maximum number of people, you need to monitor your website to ensure an optimal experience. This guide will discuss six monitoring metrics that every business should track. By monitoring these metrics, you can ensure that you're providing the best experience to site visitors. Let's jump into this guide.

Business growth can be measured by the performance of IT infrastructure, which is an integral part of any organization. According to research done by Riverbed, 73% of C-suites say that granular visibility into the network and other components opens the door for business innovation. Simply put, fostering the growth of business health lies in enhanced visibility and well-organized management of IT infrastructure.

Datadog’s template variables help you quickly scope your dashboards to specific contexts using tags, so you can visualize data from only the hosts, containers, services, or any other tagged objects you care about. This helps you build more flexible dashboards so you can access the insights you’re looking for as quickly as possible. We’re proud to announce new features for the template variable workflow that enable you to make highly dynamic, shareable dashboards more efficiently.

A good deal of sites redirect visitors to a specific more relevant page. Think, for instance, of a site that redirects you from / to a page in a relevant language, for instance /en or /nl. A single redirect is often not a problem, but having multiple redirects in a chain can hinder your site's user experience. Modern browsers also limit the number of redirects.

Take a look at the two versions of the website below. Can you can spot the one that has a website performance mistake that would result in a £2.5 million loss in sales each year? It’s impossible to tell from the screenshots above because they appear identical.