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Can Shift Left Go Too Far? Why Testing in DevOps May Never Be the Same

Nov 11, 2022 By Dan Sullivan In SolarWinds
Testing is commonly understood to be an essential and fundamental part of software development, but when and how to test is open to a wider variety of opinions. DevOps practitioners often advocate for performance and quality testing early in the development and deployment process. This is known as a “shift left” approach.
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From Smokestack to Full-Stack: Observability and the Digitization of Manufacturing

Nov 10, 2022 By Simon Abrahams In SolarWinds
The pandemic hit manufacturing hard, with the workforce, supply chains, and investment all taking heavy blows. The bounce-back has also been punishing on the sector, with severe global competition for materials, disrupted logistics, and workforce shortages, all exacerbated by the human and economic disaster of Ukraine.
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The Power of Harnessing DevOps for the Database

Nov 8, 2022 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds
Why do some organizations excel in streamlining their database operations and applications development while others find it immensely challenging? Why can some database teams embrace agility while others take months of cycles to deploy even a single line of code? What secret sauce can allow some database teams to work smarter (not harder), streamline database development lifecycles better, get to deployment faster, and create an overall stronger alignment across departments?
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8 Change Management Best Practices You're Probably Not Following

Nov 8, 2022 By Melissa Palmer In SolarWinds
 Change management methodologies are often seen as complex and clunky, which can lead to these initiatives having a high failure rate in many organizations—but why does change management have this stigma? At one point in my career, I was a regular at change advisory board (CAB) meetings and maintained our organization’s standard change catalog.
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Recapping Our Inaugural SolarWinds Day Event

Nov 2, 2022 By Chrystal Taylor In SolarWinds
Our inaugural SolarWinds Day event was a smashing success! From the announcement of our SolarWinds® Observability solution—which was built fully in the cloud—to important updates to our on-premises SolarWinds® Hybrid Cloud Observability solution, this was our biggest day of product launches since the founding of SolarWinds. It was exciting to be a part of the event and to see so many people participate and engage in the discussion.
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User Experience for Observability

Nov 2, 2022 By Pingdom In SolarWinds
Modern software applications involve multiple layers of code and services, working together to meet increasingly demanding user requirements. To achieve this, systems became distributed, providing improved scalability, fault tolerance, and complexity. However, this innovation brought new challenges to basic troubleshooting and performance monitoring to maintain the health of systems. It’s for these reasons that observability is trending.
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Containers vs. Virtual Machines: Rivals or Friends?

Nov 1, 2022 By Joey D'Antoni In SolarWinds
Containers have been the buzz among developers in recent years with the adoption of cloud-native orchestration tools like Kubernetes and DevOps workflows centered around containers. At the same time, virtual machines (VMs) still power many enterprise workloads, whether they’re running in a public cloud provider like Azure or an on-premises data center running VMware. In one of my early jobs, we built a private cloud—in 2012. This was a ground-breaking project at the time.
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SolarWinds Day October 2022 - Observability for All

Nov 1, 2022 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds
To kick off our first SolarWinds Day, we are pleased to announce the launch of SolarWinds Observability, our new cloud-native SaaS offering. It combines application, infrastructure, database, network, digital experience, and log analysis into a single, integrated platform. This full-stack approach provides a centralized view of your IT infrastructure and services and delivers powerful functionality to help businesses and organizations of any size maximize their time and resources.
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