Workload Placement Is Science, Not Art
The terms “workload” and “application” are sometimes thrown around interchangeably, but they are not the same, and it’s important to understand the difference.
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#AskSleuth Is Progressive Delivery the future?
#ProgressiveDelivery is fairly new for most developers. Discover all the benefits that can improve your products and your customer experience. On this episode of #ASKSLEUTH, Don Brown from Sleuth.io answers your questions.
Have your say on the state of database monitoring in 2021
Since 2018, over 2,400 SQL Server professionals have provided valuable insights into how they monitor and manage their estates, and what challenges they’re facing, through the only industry-wide survey of its kind. The results of the annual survey have not only benefited the community but also helped us better understand how we could shape our own product development to deliver more value where organizations need it.
Monitor your SQL Server databases in the cloud and on-premises with one monitoring tool
There’s no doubt the cloud is having a big impact on the nature and make-up of SQL Server estates. The 2021 State of Database DevOps report from Redgate, for example, showed that 58% of organizations now use the cloud either wholly or in combination with on-premises servers, compared to 46% in the same report a year earlier.
How to Ensure Successful Remote Support
In recent times, particularly during the pandemic, working remotely has become the new normal. Not only is it a need of the time, but employers have also started acknowledging the benefits of a remote workforce. Some of these include cost elimination of renting a workspace, access to a wider talent pool, and increased productivity. Furthermore, a better work-life balance also relates to higher employee satisfaction, loyalty and retention.
How Would an SRE Conduct a Postmortem on the Suez Canal Incident?
The Suez Canal has been big news over the last couple of weeks. We wondered how a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) might conduct a postmortem on what happened with the Ever Given, and what that might mean if a comparable incident occurred at a modern tech company.
Enabling Profitable Business Services through OTN Switching
OTN Switching in the Access can change the equation for offering attractively-priced L1 business services. By eliminating the complexities of muxponders and transponders, DWDM optical and traffic engineering, OTN switching technology can enable most common services over a greatly simplified architecture. Efficiencies can be achieved in both capital as well as in operational costs allowing a competitive edge to your services portfolio.
Adding IaC security scans to your CI pipeline
The adoption of Infrastructure as Code(IaC) has skyrocketed in recent years as engineers seek ways to deploy cloud infrastructure faster and more efficiently. IaC refers to the technologies and processes that manage and provision infrastructure using machine-readable languages (code) as opposed to inefficient manual operations.
Puppet Announces General Availability and New Price Tiering for Relay
Relay's low-code workflow automation enables CloudOps teams to quickly and easily manage complexities of hybrid cloud infrastructure.
Monitor Azure Service Health events with Datadog
Azure Service Health continuously notifies you of issues that may affect the availability of your environment, such as service incidents, planned maintenance periods, or regional outages. We’ve recently enhanced our Azure integration to include additional support for monitoring Service Health issues, enabling you to keep tabs on the health of your Azure environment and take proactive measures to mitigate downtime.