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SolarWinds Lab Episode #71- FestivOps for the Rest of Ops

Confused about much hyped DevOps? Curious if developer's monitoring tools are different than those made for operations? Wondering if there are hidden cloud tools in the Orion® Platform modules you already have? As always, SolarWinds Lab™ is here to help. In a SolarWinds Lab first, Head Geeks™ Thomas LaRock and Patrick Hubbard travel to Las Vegas for AWS re:Invent to interview technology pros and SolarWinds customers about how much or even *if* they’re happily using DevOps and cloud technologies in production.

Elixir Overview and Tutorial (as told in a Wizard fable)

Interested in Learning the Elixir language? Join us in this entertaining Elixir tutorial and overview. This post will spin a yarn about an ambitious wizard, Alatar, and his quest to revamp a magic web storefront using Elxir. We will observe Alatar decide on Elixir as his development platform, and follow him on the journey of learning and implementation. Along the way, he will utilize several frameworks written for Elixir (including Phoenix, Ecto, and Poison).

Now Available: IBM Cloud Monitoring with Sysdig.

Today at Kubecon we announced the availability of IBM Cloud Monitoring with Sysdig. Together, IBM and Sysdig have launched this new offering to provide a fully managed enterprise-grade monitoring service for cloud-native applications on IBM Cloud. If you build, ship, and run applications on IBM Cloud, you now have direct, integrated access to Sysdig Monitor.

Moving Ahead: $85 Million in Funding and the Next Chapter in Our Journey

Patrick, Vincent and myself founded Nexthink because we believed in a future in which IT departments and employees work together to have a great digital experience. At that time, we observed that IT departments were traditionally focused on server, network and applications and often neglected the employee experience as a key driver for success and productivity. At best, organizations were reactive to support users, instead of proactively fixing issues before employees were impacted.