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Network Monitoring & eBPF

I’m not going to lie, I have a strong hatred towards the Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF). There are a lot of reasons mainly having to do with having to support BPF on a network monitoring tool. There’s also the challenge of writing BPF filters and the weird way they work. So when I first heard about eBPF, I was more than a little reluctant to be excited. As I dug in further, I became much more excited about the technology and the benefits it can bring. So, what is eBPF then?

One codebase, many projects: Drupal multisite fleet management

For years, Chromatic managed virtual servers on behalf of our clients. As tools like Platform.sh matured, our team realized we were spending much of our clients’ budgets on simply maintaining those servers—instead of making their sites better (which is kind of our reason for existing).

Platform.sh hires Leah Goldfarb as Environmental Impact Officer to oversee greener web hosting strategy

Platform.sh has announced Leah Goldfarb as its new Environmental Impact Officer. In what is the first hire of its kind for the PaaS industry, Goldfarb will oversee the company's greener web hosting strategy as Platform.sh looks to further reduce the digital carbon footprint of its large enterprise clients.

Monitor user-facing bugs with LambdaTest's subscription in the Datadog Marketplace

As your products and client base scale, maintaining effective test suites and providing rapid response to user-facing issues becomes increasingly challenging. Without thorough testing, bugs are more likely to go undetected, which creates poor user experiences and slower release cycles. LambdaTest is a cloud-based platform that supports real-time and automated testing for over 3,000 browsers, real devices, and operating systems.

SecurityDAM's NOC Management Takes Off With MoovingON.ai Platform

When SecurityDAM (acquired by Radware), a DDoS protection service provider, needed to upgrade their NOC operations, they tested out multiple solutions before choosing MoovingON.ai. From increasing efficiency and visibility to improving ticket resolution times and runbook automation, MoovingON.ai provided the NOC manager and team with everything they needed to run operations more smoothly and effectively.

DevOps 101: Unlocking the value of frequent deployments

In this DevOps 101 series, I introduce the concept of DevOps and talk about how you can include the database as a natural partner. In the previous post in the series, I discussed how automation introduces faster and more frequent deployments as a key benefit. We’re now going to take a deep dive into the value you can unlock through frequent deployments using database DevOps, along with how you get started doing them.

RIA Vendor Selection Matrix for AIOps 2022

In July, the research firm Research In Action (RIA), published the 2022 edition of their annual Vendor Selection Matrix™. Despite AIOps being a well established technology (Moogsoft has customers who have been reaping the benefits of AIOps for many years) selecting a vendor can still be quite difficult, given the plethora of vendors who quickly re-branded their solutions as AIOps. So a vendor selection guide is a valuable resource.

Changes are Observability's Biggest Blind Spot

Classically, the space of observability lies within layers of information on a dashboard. It operates by using the fundamental trio of data — metrics, logs and traces — from each layer of the environment to assess the health of an IT infrastructure. However, a time component is critical, making the stack observable at any point in time. Gathering reliable data and insights into your IT infrastructure remains the primary role of observability tools and services.