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There's More Than One Way to Monitor Database Performance - SolarWinds Lab Episode #96

In this episode of SolarWinds Lab™, Head Geeks™ Kevin Kline and Thomas LaRock will show you the basics of database monitoring using free features within Microsoft® SQL Server® like Extended Events and SQL Agent Monitoring. Then they'll show you how to extend and amplify your database performance monitoring effectiveness with SolarWinds products Server & Application Monitor, Database Performance Analyzer, SQL Sentry, Database Performance Monitor, and Database Insights for SQL Server.

Gremlin ALFI Demo - AWS RDS Unavailable - Chaos Engineering

In this demo, we'll share how you can use ALFI (Application Level Failure Injection) to make AWS RDS unavailable. This enables you to learn how your application handles different failure modes. We'll be using the ALFI Latency attack to perform this Chaos Engineering experiment.

DORA Metrics Explained

DORA metrics, also known as Accelerate metrics, are universally lauded as good metrics for tracking Engineering team productivity and software delivery performance. Learn the whats and whys of the four DORA metrics: Deployment Frequency, Change Lead Time, Change Failure Rate and Mean Time to Recovery, and how to use them the right way. LINKS SLEUTH A deploy-based Accelerate Metrics tracker both managers and developers love.

Tanzu Talk: How Kubernetes Helps Businesses, results from the State of Kubernetes 2021 survey

Coté goes over his highlights for the 2021 State of Kubernetes survey: rising production use, the benefits and business capabilities people are getting, hurdles for developers and operations, and the rising use in kubernetes distros.

What is MicroStack?

MicroStack provides a single or multi-node OpenStack deployment which can run directly on your workstation. Although made for developers to prototype and test, it is also suitable for edge, IoT, and appliances. MicroStack is an OpenStack in a snap which means that all OpenStack services and supporting libraries are packaged together in a single package which can be easily installed, upgraded or removed. MicroStack includes all key OpenStack components: Keystone, Nova, Neutron, Glance, and Cinder.