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Application Performance Monitoring With SolarWinds AppOptics

AppOptics provides real-time visibility into any application by collecting both high-fidelity metrics and detailed transaction traces. Follow requests across processes, hosts, and data center with the distributed tracing functionality—no manual instrumentation required Quickly jump from visualizing trends to deep, code-level root cause analysis, and easily monitor applications across many different programming languages including: .NET, Java, Scala, Python, and PHP.

Is Kubernetes the Tool, or Are You?

This presentation ran at the DevOps Institute skilUP Day event on May 21, 2020. If Kubernetes exists to make your life easier, why is it such a nightmare to use? There are a million and one presentations on how to use Kubernetes in your DevOps workflow, but they all start from a flawed foundation. They all assume that you wanted to use Kubernetes in the first place. In the shiny world where Kubernetes is King, we are its subjects, forced to use it and smile while we grit our teeth.

Deploy a Rancher Cluster with GitLab CI and Terraform

In today’s ever-changing world of DevOps, it is essential to follow best practices. That goes for security, access control, resource limits, etc. One of the most important things in the world of DevOps is continuous integration and continuous delivery, or CI/CD. Continuous integration is a crucial part of an efficient deployment. We are all guilty of repeating manual steps over and over again – especially when it comes to node configuration.

#ITConnections - Building a Collaboration-Focused Remote Work Infrastructure

You’ve adapted your network for the influx of remote work. Your quick fixes to problems that unexpectedly came up, worked out. Now it’s time to build the services-focused IT infrastructure you need to keep remote collaboration working for the long haul. Embracing a hybrid cloud environment, including an Office 365 migration, can pose challenges. There are many ways to prepare your network and IT infrastructure for these changes to avoid downtime and deal with challenges.

10 Best Practices For Guaranteed ITOM Success

ITOM or IT Operations Management is an umbrella term that covers all activities involved in the setup, design, configuration, deployment, and maintenance of the infrastructure that supports business services in an organization. Simply put, ITOM is how the IT landscape is managed in your company. From network security, configuration, and monitoring to devices, applications, and personnel, ITOM is what keeps your IT going. Generally, ITOM leverages several tools to manage these activities individually.

7 Configurations to Enhance the Performance of Your Java Web Applications

There has been a lingering perception that Java applications are slower than applications written in other languages. So, if performance is important for your application, you should not be considering Java as the programming language to use. This perception was true about 20 years ago, when Java was initially used for developing applications. In the early Java implementations, it took a long time for the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) to start.