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In this episode of SolarWinds TechPod, hosts Chrystal Taylor and Sean Sebring explore the key differences between monitoring and observability with guest Jeff Stewart, GVP of Product Management at SolarWinds. Observability goes beyond traditional monitoring, offering AI-driven insights and a holistic view of system health. Like understanding the anatomy of the body, observability reveals how IT systems are interconnected—where one issue can ripple across the entire environment.

"Miri" (the plural of mir) derives from the Russian for "world"; and "way" is for Wayland, a protocol used by graphical shells (not the craftsman in European folklore). Together these make Miriway: an easy way to leverage the Mir compositor engine to build Wayland based desktop environments. There are many components to a desktop environment: backgrounds, panels, launchers, onscreen keyboards, notifications, etc. Miriway provides a Wayland compositor (which handles the display, input and window management) leaving the rest to be configured.

The EU plans to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 with Digital Product Passports (DPPs) playing an important role. DPPs will include verifiable data on a product’s materials, manufacturing processes, and lifecycle impacts, as well as recycling, reuse and resell. The passports offer a great opportunity for retailers to improve sustainability performance, build trust with consumers by authenticating genuine products, and significantly improving supply chains too.

The data center market is evolving—and fast. Raul Martynek, CEO of DataBank, explains how new markets are emerging as hubs for digital infrastructure as demand continues to surge.

“The best data center market I’ve ever seen.” Raul Martynek, CEO of DataBank, explains how the explosion of AI is creating unprecedented demand in the data center space—and why this moment is unlike any before it.

Chris Sharp, CTO of Digital Realty, shares how private interconnection is powering the future of AI, gaming, and enterprise networking.

In this video, Stefan Judis, Playwright ambassador, explores ways to apply schema validation for API responses. We dive into three detailed examples: By the end of this tutorial, you'll learn how to employ Playwright's native methods or a JSON validation library such as Zod to ensure your API responses meet expected schemas.

Parents need to tie up kids' Android devices before starting to configure kids' devices..

Join Stefan Judis, Playwright ambassador, as he shows different Playwright locators and explains why choosing "user-first" locators is the recommended end-to-end testing approach.

Optimize K8s pod resource allocation.