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Synthetic Monitoring for CI/CD Pipelines

For DevOps teams, delivering quality software has long required reconciling a major tension: In a perfect world, you’d catch every issue in each new release of your application before you deployed the release into production. But in the real world, doing so is tricky, not least because it’s hard to collect data about application performance before the application is actually deployed.

On-Premises Application Monitoring: An Introduction

In the present age of cloud-native everything, it can be easy to forget that some applications still run on-premises. But they do and managing the performance of on-premises apps is just as important as monitoring those that run in the cloud. With that reality in mind, here’s a primer on how to approach on-premises application performance monitoring as part of a broader cloud-native performance optimization strategy.

Gimlet launches new learning resources to build a developer platform on Civo

Hey Civo users, at Gimlet, we think that best practices in the Kubernetes ecosystem have solidified so much, that they can be packaged into tools, so that you don't have to make nuanced decisions every corner. This is what we have been doing with our CLI tools, and nowdays doing with the Gimlet Dashboard! We have been following Civo for over a year now and see how much the Gimlet team shares the Civo community's spirit.

Automating Flask deployments with PythonAnywhere

Now that development teams know about CI/CD, there is no reason for deployments to become a time-consuming and cumbersome process. CI/CD may start with continuous testing, but adding automated deployments takes your CI/CD practice to the next level. Continuous deployment slashes the time it takes to release so you can spend more time improving the quality of your applications.

What To Do When Your Shopify Site Goes Down

Shopify downtime can be a real risk to your business. It can cause you unprecedented losses. For example, it can prevent clients from accessing your ecommerce store. Anytime you experience situations like slow browsing or outage, it’s crucial to act swiftly to troubleshoot the issues and fix them. How should you go about it? In this article, we will.

How to Pick the Best Incident Response Software

With the rising complexity of our digital ecosystems, incidents are occurring at an unprecedented rate. To combat the additional strain, incident responders are looking to software to help them establish a scalable, repeatable incident response process that reduces toil and noise and gets the right people on the scene at the right time. The best incident response software addresses the entire lifecycle of an incident.

Papertrail Now A DigitalOcean SaaS Add-On

A little over a year ago, we announced a partnership with DigitalOcean to make it easier for users to add log management and monitoring for applications running in DigitalOcean Droplets (VMs). Since then, we’ve created a DigitalOcean Marketplace Listing, provided a direct link to the signup page, and shared many ideas on how to use SolarWinds® Papertrail™ to troubleshoot and optimize applications running in DigitalOcean Droplets.

How SAP built a Dojo Community of Practice to support a cultural shift to DevOps

by Sam Fell, VP, Product Marketing, Observability, Sumo Logic I love technology, and I’m thrilled to work in a profession where I’m steeped in it! In my career as a developer, consultant and marketeer I've learned it’s not “the cool new tech stack” that helps win the day.

AIOps' certainty in an uncertain future

BigPanda’s recent coronation as a Unicorn has prompted its leaders to look to the future of IT Operations and how it relates to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine lifiearning (ML). What is BigPanda’s role in improving IT Ops? How can AIOps contribute to greater achievement in global enterprises? These are questions a VP of Product Marketing like BigPanda’s Mohan Kompella, who has spent 15+ years in IT Operations, has been asking.