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Our networks are always changing and evolving. Network Testing for higher speeds, better application and network device performance, and after a new service deployment or migration, helps us understand the impact of changes on our network. In this article, we’re running you through how to test network performance using Network Testing and Monitoring tools.

Modern software development is a high-pressure affair. Competition means getting to market faster with higher quality code and being able to release software quicker, monitor it and both find and fix problems quickly. By using modern tools and building a new approach and workflow to allow for monitoring, observability, and intelligent and actionable alerts it is possible to achieve faster release cycles with higher code quality.

We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) platforms are great tools for helping teams work smarter, faster, and more efficiently against security risks. But, used on their own, SOARs are far from perfect for meeting the full security needs of the modern organization.

When you’re working with large data sets, having that data structured in a way that means you can use software to process and understand it will enable you to derive insights far more quickly than any manual approach. Logfile data is no exception.

Are you sure your Hive queries are performing at their best? You might be surprised. Apache Hive is the most prevalent query engine used in many of the largest enterprise environments today, but that doesn’t mean it works optimally automatically. To get the most out of the engine and achieve Hive query optimization, it’s important to tune its performance. But before we dive into that, let’s cover the basics of Hive performance tuning. What is Hive performance tuning?

Here are the articles, videos, and tools that we’ve been excited about this January. We hope you enjoy these links, and we look forward to hearing what you’ve been reading in the comments or on the Interrupt Slack.

The Project Calico community is one of the most collaborative and supportive communities in the open-source space. Our community has shown great engagement through the years, which has helped us maintain and grow the project. Thanks to our 200+ contributors from all over the world, Calico Open Source (the solution born out of the project) is powering 1.5M+ nodes daily across 166 countries.

System Administrators (SysAdmins) often represent the core of IT organizations. SysAdmins manage the organization's computing infrastructure, encompassing servers, virtualization, networking, and storage. For many years, the term System Administrator, or SysAdmin, was typically associated with Linux or UNIX systems.

Welcome to 2022! We hope it will be a great year. First, the team at SolarWinds® Pingdom® would like to thank all Pingdom users for their support and loyalty in 2021. Thank you for trusting us to monitor your websites, servers, and services in a more volatile internet ecosystem. And while we look back at 2021 web performance in review, we can’t wait to monitor, report, and analyze more online events in 2022.

AWS announced CloudTrail Lake on January 5th, 2022, as a fully-managed solution for storing and querying CloudTrail logs. At first glance, it is straightforward to set up, can be enabled for all your organization’s accounts with a radio button, and keeps data for up to seven years by default! It’s a huge time saver and headache eliminator for many, as getting CloudTrail from all organization accounts to a SIEM can be tedious and time-consuming. But all this comes with a cost.