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List of .Net Profilers: 3 Different Types and Why You Need All of Them

.NET Profilers are a developer’s best friend when it comes to optimizing application performance. They are especially critical when doing low level CPU and memory optimizations. But did you know that there are three different types of profilers? All are very valuable but serve relatively different purposes and different types of performance profiling. Let’s explore the different types.

How to Set Up This Next-Level Personal Home Dashboard in Your Kitchen

We saw Cameron’s impressive dashboard in a Grafana Experts Facebook group and asked him to break it down for us. When friends and visitors see my personal home dashboard in my kitchen, they’re normally of the opinion that it’s “really neat” and looks “impressive.” Often that’s what they take away from it. It’s “cool”… and as much as that may be true, that is not its purpose.

Accelerating Your Deployment of the SolarWinds Orion Platform to Microsoft Azure

The SolarWinds Orion Platform and its modules are now Azure Certified applications and available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. During this video you'll see how to find SolarWinds within the Azure Marketplace, and how easy and fast it is to automate the deployment of the Orion Platform onto Azure virtual machines.

Monitoring Azure MariaDB Instances with LogicMonitor

Released in 2009, MariaDB is a popular open-source fork of the MySQL relational database management system. MariaDB is intended as a drop-in replacement for MySQL, so data and table definitions, protocols, structures, and connectors require little to no modification in order to migrate. MariaDB also contains several enhancements, including faster indexes and cache, increased connection thread pools, and support for more storage engines.

The Future of IT Operations is Agile

Reinvention is the key to modern IT operations in a DevOps world. Headline after headline after headline tells the same story: Modern IT operations is an exercise in managing complexity. As the IT ecosystem increases in flexibility, scalability, agility, and possibility, the IT operations management workload is becoming increasingly unruly.

What Does Wi-Fi 6 Mean for MSPs?

Wi-Fi 6, or 802.11ax if you want to get technical, is the latest version of the 802.11 standard for wireless network transmissions that we all know as Wi-Fi. And if you’ve been on any tech news websites lately, you’ll know the topic is taking the tech world by storm. To get to the bottom of all the Wi-Fi 6 buzz, we talked with Lee Badman, a wireless network architect and expert, about what it means for MSPs and whether they should buy into the hype.

Good IT Support? Or Just a Pain In The Bits?

Good IT Support is harder to pin down than you’d think but deciding which technology is better than the next is pretty straightforward for most of us. Who wouldn’t pick the latest iPhone or Android device over a flip-phone? Actually, most senior citizens—but to their credit flip-phones never really die, they just regenerate into larger flip-phones. Bad example. Point is we can rate, compare, trial, and study just about every digital technology on the market.