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Istio vs. Linkerd vs. Envoy: A Comparison of Service Meshes

In a previous article, we examined service meshes in detail. Briefly, a service mesh takes care of network functionality for the applications running on your platform. As Kubernetes has matured as a technology, service meshes have become a hot topic, with various products being developed to solve the challenges associated with areas like traffic management, security, and observability. This article will compare three service meshes.

How to Quickly Identify Suspicious Network Behavior With Intuitive Dashboards in SolarWinds SEM

Log and event data are a boundless and valuable resource for identifying suspicious network activity and stopping potential breaches. However, analyzing lines and lines of text-based data can make this resource more trouble than it's worth. In this video, we'll explore the different ways you can customize log data in an easy-to-understand and visual dashboard in Security Event Manager to help turn it into something you can act on.

SolarWinds Server Configuration Monitor Overview

SolarWinds Server Configuration Monitor (SCM) is designed to provide insights into Windows® server and application changes to help you pinpoint the root cause of performance problems faster. Detect, track, and receive alerts when changes occur, allowing you to correlate system performance against configuration changes, know who made changes, and compare configurations over time. SCM integrates with SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor, allowing you to extend troubleshooting of system and application performance from one unified console.

Papertrail + Python Logging = Super Powers

Design applications to be modular. It’s a software design best practice. Modular programming is writing multiple independent programs that perform a single function but work together to achieve an overarching outcome. The benefit to this design is the smaller parts can be easily created and tested. New functionality can be slipped into the larger whole without interfering with other functions.

Citrix Monitoring in 2020

Now how many of you have better monitoring as part of your New Year’s resolution? You want to implement better monitoring into your Citrix environments, right?You want your end-users to experience less technical faults by having a system in place that allows you and the team to be more proactive. OK, probably not what you have been thinking as the clock struck midnight, but it should be part of your professional goals for 2020.

Beware These 5 Possible Dangers Lurking in Free Website Monitoring Tools

We’ve been told by the poets that the best things in life are free: A sunrise in spring, the scent of a flower, the coo of a baby, having a buddy who can get his hands on football tickets. It’s all so beautiful and uplifting (especially the football tickets). But at the same time, the economists remind us that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. And of course, we know from experience that this is often the case.

A Lesson for Every Startup from Bitcoin's 2017 Outage

In December 2017, significant declines were recorded on the exchange rate of the world’s most popular digital currency—Bitcoin. Investors who wanted to sell their currencies quickly, for fear of further declines, turned to the biggest cryptocurrency stock exchange, known as Coinbase. At Coinbase, they did not seem stressed. Their service was unavailable for several hours, and investors switched to selling their Bitcoins on other exchanges.