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We now support Playwright!

We are really excited to announce that you can now use Playwright in your browser checks. If you didn't know yet, Playwright is Microsoft's headless browser library. It's very similar to Puppeteer. In fact, it was built by the original creators of Puppeteer and has mostly the same features and a remarkably similar API. This was in our public roadmap and cooking for some time now and we're glad to have it out the door!

AWS vs Firebase - Is It Even a Fair Fight?

Now that you’ve chosen to go the serverless route, which vendor option should you go for? That’s one of the major questions that anybody asks themselves when they make the switch. Should you choose Amazon Web Services (AWS), which is a mature service that will serve you well, or should you go with e Google’s younger Firebase? Before the comparison of AWS vs Firebase, we should understand what serverless really means. This one server can be responsible for several different functions.

Five engineering productivity lessons from Covid-19

The world became a different place post Covid-19, and how we work, communicate and collaborate has been redefined—possibly forever. When “shelter in place” hit the entire world, we were not sure how we’d be able to execute our projects, customer commitments, and day-to-day operations. OpsRamp, an ITOM provider, has a distributed team across the U.S. and India for development and operations, and most of our engineers rarely worked from home.

4 Cloud Monitoring Capabilities That Really Matter

With nearly every organization moving at least some portion of their infrastructure into the cloud, the value is well understood—we’re not going to re-hash those umpteen benefits here. But when you migrate, you cede some control. That’s by design and it’s not inherently bad. It does, however, mean that you need to keep an eye on those deployments to make sure you’re getting the performance and benefits you expect. And you need to watch it over time as things evolve.

Headless Recorder: Record Puppeteer and Playwright scripts

The Headless Recorder is a Chrome extension that records your browser interactions and generates a Puppeteer or Playwright script. It massively simplifies the process of generating scripts for scraping, testing, and monitoring. Install it from the Chrome Webstore, hit "Record" and watch how it generates native Puppeteer or Playwright scripts when you interact with the browser.

Galileo and Splunk: Ensuring Patient Trust with Serverless Observability

When it comes to patient care, convenience and trust are critical to success. Healthcare startup Galileo prioritizes just that through technology that gives people 24/7 access to medical care and improves the dialogue between patients and their doctors. Galileo ensures uptime, minimizes latency, and reduces errors so patients get the help they need when they need it and can ultimately live better, healthier lives.

Tags: set once, access everywhere

Tags are essential for aggregating and contextualizing monitoring data across your infrastructure; they enable you to monitor your entire system at a high level, drill down to individual services for more comprehensive analysis, and easily correlate data from every application component. Implementing a consistent and effective tag schema for your applications can be challenging, especially as they grow in complexity.

Progressive Delivery- Using feature flags & observability to ship confidently

Level up your deployments for better resiliency and reliability. After 15 years, the basic revelations of the CI/CD revolution are no longer news—small-batch changes with more frequent releases tend to be more stable and recover faster than lengthy big-bang release cycles. Automated is better than manual, instrumentation is key, and speed is critical. But the promise doesn't stop there.

CMDB

The service desk is full of data that can improve service delivery. Tracking relationships and record history through a configuration management database is a great way to leverage this data. Watch this video to learn more about the visual CMDB in SolarWinds Service Desk and how to maximize it within ITIL practices.