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There are a lot of important components needed to run a successful web application. The language you code it in, which developers are working on the project, and the integrations with other services are enormous aspects of the process. One essential part of running an application, however, is monitoring.

Microsoft's System Center Operations Manager, SCOM, is a resource-intense tool to work with. Not the least when it comes to competence and time. The SCOM platform can come across as rather heavy to work with and often requires some expertise to take advantage of its benefits fully. According to our experience, SCOM also lacks some attraction for the new generation of employees, even though they are prone to move towards a career in IT.

Now every developer can customize the performance monitoring charts and data views on the Performance page to see what is most important to them and their team, helping prioritize relevant performance monitoring metrics so they can take action faster. And when you jump back into Sentry Performance, the page is saved right where you left off. Say you’re working on a new release. You can edit your Performance page to include User Misery, Transaction Throughput, and Failure Rate.

According to a 2020 CNCF survey, the use of containers in production has been rapidly increasing for the past several years. Nutanix, a global leader in cloud software and a pioneer in hyperconverged infrastructure solutions, is part of that trend.

Software quality has been a topic and an area of interest since the dawn of software itself. And as software evolved so did the techniques and approaches to assuring its high quality. Better computers providing more computing power, bigger storage and faster communication have allowed software developers to detect issues in their code sooner and faster.

Observability is one of the most popular topics in technology at the moment, and that isn’t showing any sign of changing soon. Agentless log collection, automated analysis, and machine learning insights are all features and tools that organizations are investigating to optimize their systems’ observability. However, there is a new kid on the block that has been gaining traction at conferences and online: the Extended Berkeley Packet Filter, or eBPF. So, what is eBPF?

Welcome to the Cloud 66 Changelog. These are the changes that have gone out this month.

We all know the importance of managing our SAP landscape to ensure our systems are stable, secure and legally compliant. Most of us manage this primarily through the information we receive from SAP HotNews.

Many years ago, in my earliest IT jobs in Omaha, Nebraska, I realized the field of data was going to continue to evolve and, as such, there would always be a need for people who worked with and understood data. Regardless of which industry someone worked in—financial, medical, governmental, transportation, or retail—someone would have to work with and maintain business data, or the business would fail. This realization led me into the world of databases and SQL Server.

2021 holiday travel has been a rebound for the industry. Just this week, I was attempting to purchase flights for a long weekend before travel picks up for the holidays. However, after a failed attempt to sign up for their Executive Club and enduring slow page loads after every click, I abandoned the site and booked elsewhere. Just like that, I was a lost customer.