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Introducing DX Unified Infrastructure Management

Today, we are launching the newest feature of Broadcom’s Enterprise Software Academy: DX Unified Infrastructure Management (DX UIM) resource pages. DX UIM is redefining infrastructure management with full-stack observability, an open architecture, modern admin and operator consoles, and zero-touch configuration.

Do it Yourself: Generic REST API-Based Monitoring

DX Unified Infrastructure Management (DX UIM) has more than 150 monitoring probes, which enables IT administrators to monitor everything from traditional mainframe servers to modern hybrid clouds running on a wide range of platforms and operating systems. Traditionally, a separate probe has been required to monitor each specific technology. That’s because the interface that retrieved monitoring metrics was either proprietary or technology specific.

Full-Stack Infrastructure Observability with DX Unified Infrastructure Management

The IT infrastructure landscape has seen tremendous changes over last few years due to evolving technologies, newer business models, and ever-changing market demands. Business, market, and consumer demands are pushing such IT advancements as cloud, mobility, and IoT.

Managing the Complex Networks of Financial Services

It’s no surprise that monitoring and managing networks in the financial services industry is a complex task with plenty of challenges. In addition to the “standard” networking requirements, like high availability and traffic capacity planning, IT in the finance industry has to deal with regulatory and industry-specific challenges that create even more issues to deal with.

Understanding Alamofire Swift and Why is it So Powerful for iOS Development

The Alamofire Swift library is an open-source networking framework that has been designed to add the functionality of networking to iOS and macOS apps, being compatible with both. It can be used in both open source and commercial projects, and it is also the result of an international collaboration between people who are passionate about Swift. The main goal of this library is to reduce the amount of time and code that developers need in order to create networking applications.

Run UDP and WebSocket API tests to monitor latency-critical applications

Datadog Synthetic Monitoring allows you to proactively monitor your applications so that you can detect, troubleshoot, and resolve any availability or performance issues before they impact your end users. With our API test suite, you can send simulated HTTP requests to your API endpoints, check the validity of SSL certificates, verify the performance and correctness of DNS resolutions, test TCP connections, and ping endpoints to detect server connectivity issues.

Network AF, Episode 5: Building relationships as an internet analyst with Doug Madory

Network AF welcomes Doug Madory to the podcast. Doug is a veteran, a researcher, a writer and Kentik’s director of internet analysis. With his start in the U.S. Air Force within its Information War Center, Doug has now been working in the networking industry for 12 years. After the Air Force, Doug went on to work for Renesys, which was acquired by Dyn, which was later acquired by Oracle.

Building Relationships as an Internet Analyst With Doug Madory | Network AF Episode 5

In this week's episode, you'll hear our host Avi and guest Doug Madory's conversation around internet analysis. Doug is the Director of Internet Analysis here at Kentik, with previous experience at Oracle and Dyn in the same role. Today he shares how he got into technology and his career in the Air Force. Doug later dives into what it's like building relationships with the press and working with them as an internet analyst. You'll get to hear about some of the essential stories highlighted throughout his career, as well. Listen now!