Data centers are the backbone of modern business operations, providing the necessary infrastructure for data storage, management, and processing. These facilities play a pivotal role in ensuring the smooth functioning of IT and communication systems, facilitating cloud computing, e-commerce, data analysis, and much more. Their importance has grown exponentially with the digital transformation of businesses, highlighting the need for reliable, efficient, and scalable data management solutions.

Have you ever wondered what exactly "network monitoring" and "network management" mean? Many people mix up these terms, thinking they're the same thing. But they're not! You might think you need a big, complicated network management system to keep your network in check. But that's not always the case! Sometimes, all you need is good network monitoring. This article will help you understand the differences between monitoring and management and figure out what's best for your network.

When it comes to welcoming new developers into a team, a well-thought-out onboarding process is key. It all starts with setting clear goals and expectations right out of the gate, helping everyone understand their role and how it fits into the bigger picture of the company’s objectives. This, paired with a structured training program, can blend the often confusing process of learning the ropes with actual hands-on experience.

The average 100-person company has 126 SaaS applications and 40% of the apps in an MSP client’s environment are likely shadow IT (Gartner). That creates an interesting challenge for MSPs and their clients. SaaS platforms are a key enabler for modern businesses, and frankly, we’re better off as a result. SaaS solutions enable businesses to focus less on infrastructure and more on outcomes. However, they also create new security, governance, and cost management challenges.

Selector has received the 2024 Data Breakthrough Award for Data Observability Innovation of the Year in the Data Management category! This accomplishment marks the second year Selector has received a Data Breakthrough Award, winning Best AIOps Platform in 2023. In this post, learn more about this award and how it reflects our unique approach to data observability.

Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) is where the layout of a web page unexpectedly shifts after the initial content loads and new content pops in. At its best, it’s a little inconvenient. At its worst, it’s an accidental click of a “BUY NOW” button that suddenly appeared under your mouse cursor after an ad loaded, resulting in an unwanted purchase.

In the last week of March 2024, Datadog hosted its latest Datadog Summit in London to celebrate our community. As Jeremy Garcia, Datadog’s VP of Technical Community and Open Source, mentioned during his welcome remarks, London is the first city that has seen two Datadog Summits, with the first one in 2018. It was great to be able to see how our community there has grown over the past six years.

In parts one and two of this series, we covered how to limit deployments to Platform.sh when a tag is pushed or created. Focusing first on using GitHub and the GitHub Actions platform, and then progressing onto Gitlab and pipelines to accomplish this goal. But in the spirit of being a polyglot PaaS, let’s look at how we can accomplish the same goal—limiting deployment to Platform.sh only when adding a git tag—using Bitbucket and their CI/CD system.

It’s 1am, and something has gone very wrong. The head of sales is in the incident response channel because our top customer is reporting a system-wide outage. Everyone’s running around trying to figure it out. As you look at service maps and traces, you get a sinking feeling. Earlier the previous evening, you got an alert that user-access-service was running out of memory.

Redundancy is a core strength of Kubernetes. Whenever a component fails, such as a Pod or deployment, Kubernetes can usually automatically detect and replace it without any human intervention. This saves DevOps teams a ton of time and lets them focus on developing and deploying applications, rather than managing infrastructure.