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Continuous Service Virtualization, Part 1: Introduction and Best Practices

Service virtualization (SV) has evolved as a popular technique and technology over the last decade. Traditionally, SV has primarily been used by testers to simulate other application components that the application under test interacts with. Typically, virtual services have been created and maintained by center of excellence (COE) teams.

Continuous Service Virtualization, Part 2: Steps for Optimizing DevOps

In my prior blog, Continuous Service Virtualization, Part 1: Introduction and Best Practices, we offered an introduction to continuous service virtualization (SV) and discussed some key best practices. In this, the second and final post in the series, we will discuss the continuous SV lifecycle and how it helps to optimize DevOps and the continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline.

Dashbird now integrates with 5 new AWS services

TL;DR: Dashbird launches observability for five new AWS services (ELB, SNS, RDS, OpenSearch, and HTTP API Gateway) to allow for a faster, more secure, and smoother serverless observability experience. Dashbird, the leading monitoring platform for serverless AWS applications, announces five new AWS integrations.

How Reliability and Product Teams Collaborate at Booking.com

With more than 1.5M room nights booked per day, Booking.com requires a solid infrastructure that’s constantly monitored. And indeed, Booking.com now has a footprint of 50,000+ physical servers running across four data centers and six additional points of presence. The sheer size of this server fleet makes it viable for Booking.com to have dedicated teams specializing into looking only at the reliability of those servers.

Getting Ready for a smooth, speedy migration to the Splunk Cloud Platform

This video shows you how a little bit of preparation before you kick off your cloud migration can lead to a speedy, smooth ride. Additionally, this video will help you decide on your migration strategy that is best for your environment and show you how to assess the efforts required for migrating your environment to the Splunk Cloud Platform.

A (de)bug's life: Diagnosing and fixing performance issues in Grafana Loki's read path

Beep, beep, beeeeeeeep. Read path SLO page, again. And I’ve almost found the noisy neighbor! That was me. And will probably be me again at some point in the future. As we continue to scale up the team that builds and runs Grafana Loki at Grafana Labs, I’ve decided to record how I find and diagnose problems in Loki.

Ask the Product Experts | THWACK Livecast

We were all new once, stumbling in the dark, feeling our ways along the walls looking for the light. Searching blindly isn’t a good way to approach any technology project, so hearing from the experts is one of the better ways to expound on your knowledge. It doesn’t matter if you’re new to monitoring or a long-time SolarWinds professional; we’re sure there are questions you’ve got for our seasoned veterans.

Press Release: Kubernetes Management Pack Announcement

Today OpsLogix announces the upcoming release of their new Kubernetes Management Pack. This product is designed to help organizations monitor their Kubernetes clusters using System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). The management pack provides comprehensive monitoring of all aspects of your Kubernetes environment, from individual nodes and pods to entire clusters.