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SOLID design principles: Building stable and flexible systems

To build stable and flexible software, we need to keep software design principles in mind. Having error-free code is essential. However, well-designed software architecture is just as important. SOLID is one of the most well-known sets of software design principles. It can help you avoid common pitfalls and think about your apps’ architecture from a higher level.

Monitoring Unicast Flooding Traffic

Unicast Flooding Traffic is associated with the learning process of network switches. In fact, with this method, switches identify the MAC addresses of the devices that are accessible by each of their ports, thus constructing a table that will then be used to decide the destination of each frame that arrives at the switch.

Web performance monitoring load-time variations: Causes & fix

When looking at the performance of your website, web service,or API over a span of time, you will notice variations in the performance reported by the monitor. You may also notice inconsistencies between the performance reported from different monitors. Why? Why do you see spikes in your charts?

SolarWinds Cloud Monitoring for DevOps

SolarWinds cloud monitoring portfolio—which includes Pingdom®, AppOptics™, Papertrail™ and Loggly®—helps DevOps professionals identify and troubleshoot problems quickly and easily. These purpose-built tools help provide full-stack visibility from user experience to custom metrics, distributed traces, and log management.

Two Geeks and a Goddess II: Azure® the Easy Way - SolarWinds Lab Episode #72

If there’s one customer takeaway in 2018, it’s that most of you are now running at least some production workloads in somebody else’s data center, especially Azure®. The great news is you can monitor cloud resources with the tools you already have, and we’ll show you how.

OpsRamp Joins the CNCF

OpsRamp is proud to announce that we’ve joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). As cloud-native adoption within the enterprise grows at an accelerated pace and Kubernetes emerges as the leading orchestration platform for containerized applications, we’ve been actively developing new enhancements and features to support these innovative technologies.