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SolarWinds Gives Data Pros the Tools for DataOps Success With Database Mapper and Task Factory

Company enables data pros to accelerate data delivery and cloud migrations more efficiently; showcases database management solutions and educates on database strategies at upcoming industry events.

Use these metrics to get the most out of your engineering team

I’ve been leading software teams for more than 20 years and one thing I’ve learned about metrics is that leaders tend to put too much emphasis on engineering metrics alone, without considering the bigger picture. After speaking to a range of engineering industry leaders, and poring over millions of jobs processed from software teams worldwide, we found that the most insightful and relevant metrics fall into three categories: What metrics are meaningful for your team to measure?

Podcast: Break Things on Purpose | Leonardo Murillo, Principal Partner Solutions Architect at Weaveworks

Sit down with Ana and Jason for this week's show with Leonardo (Leo) Murillo, principal partner solutions architect at Weaveworks, and former DJ, who joins us from Costa Rica. Leo shares his take on GitOps, offers a lot of excellent resources to check out, and shares his thoughts on automating reliability. He also defines how to account for the “DJ variable” and “party parameters” alongside some fun anecdotes on DevOps.

Oracle Management Pack Update Release (21.9.2568.0)

We’re happy to announce a new update release of our Oracle Management Pack for SCOM. The 21.9.2568.0 release contains new features, fixes, and changes. On top of this, we have also released a new datasheet and a white paper that you can find more information about further down in this article.

Application Whitelisting | How to whitelist applications with ManageEngine Application Control Plus

Application whitelisting is the process of limiting the applications running in the network to only what is absolutely trusted. It follows the Default Deny strategy where all applications other than the trusted ones get blocked automatically. ManageEngine Application Control Plus seamlessly acts as an application whitelisting solution that leverages the rule-based policies offered to facilitate easy list building and maintenance. The rules offered by this application whitelisting tool can be based on trusted vendors, product name, file hash, verified executables, store apps and folder path.

The Absolute Fastest Way to Get Started with Mattermost Apps

This post outlines the quickest path available for a developer to use a basic Mattermost app on a local setup. It makes use of Docker containers, a Node.js app, and — of course — a Mattermost instance! When you’re ready to get started with the Mattermost App Framework, here are the steps that you will need to take.

Rollbar Pro Tips: Versions

Rollbar allows you to see which versions of your code are throwing exceptions. This is particularly helpful if you are continuously deploying your apps/services because you can see if recent occurrences are coming from the latest deployed version. Rollbar is the leading continuous code improvement platform that proactively discovers, predicts, and remediates errors with real-time AI-assisted workflows. With Rollbar, developers continually improve their code and constantly innovate rather than spending time monitoring, investigating, and debugging.

Rollbar Pro Tips: Deploy tracking

Notify Rollbar every time you deploy or release your app to unlock several features that will help your debugging process. Rollbar is the leading continuous code improvement platform that proactively discovers, predicts, and remediates errors with real-time AI-assisted workflows. With Rollbar, developers continually improve their code and constantly innovate rather than spending time monitoring, investigating, and debugging.