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Chef vs. Puppet vs. Ansible: Comparing Configuration Management Tools

Configuration management is an essential process for DevOps teams. It allows engineers to manage dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of machines in a consistent and automated way. While there are many configuration management tools available, three of the most popular are Chef, Puppet, and Ansible. In this post, we’ll explain how these tools work and the unique benefits that they offer.

How I Got Comfortable Building with Serverless

A few months back, I blogged about my experience arriving at Stackery after code school. Months later, each day is still interesting and challenging and I’m so glad to have decided to pursue serverless as my concentration. I credit my AWS certifications for narrowing my focus enough to lead me to this point. The serverless community puts so much emphasis on exploration and getting started on your work or experiments today that, getting some exposure to AWS, you can get started right away.

Web performance monitoring load-time variations: Causes & fix

When looking at the performance of your website, web service,or API over a span of time, you will notice variations in the performance reported by the monitor. You may also notice inconsistencies between the performance reported from different monitors. Why? Why do you see spikes in your charts?

SolarWinds Cloud Monitoring for DevOps

SolarWinds cloud monitoring portfolio—which includes Pingdom®, AppOptics™, Papertrail™ and Loggly®—helps DevOps professionals identify and troubleshoot problems quickly and easily. These purpose-built tools help provide full-stack visibility from user experience to custom metrics, distributed traces, and log management.

Two Geeks and a Goddess II: Azure® the Easy Way - SolarWinds Lab Episode #72

If there’s one customer takeaway in 2018, it’s that most of you are now running at least some production workloads in somebody else’s data center, especially Azure®. The great news is you can monitor cloud resources with the tools you already have, and we’ll show you how.