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StackStorm v3.4.0 Released

With version 3.4, StackStorm code itself will only run on Python 3. For the v3.4 release, we have chosen to run on Python 3.6 across all of our supported platforms. For users still on Ubuntu 16.04, you will need to source your own Python 3.6 packages, but we have been using the Python 3.6 Ubuntu PPA without many issues. Looking forward to StackStorm 3.5, we will be removing the ability to install Python 2 packs.

Best Practices for Monitoring Your End-User Experience - SolarWinds Lab Episode #94

Knowing if a server has high CPU is helpful, but does it really matter if your end users can still access their apps without performance issues? If you're only monitoring the server side, then you don't have a complete picture of your environment. End-user monitoring can be an extremely valuable tool—if you know how to you use it. Join Product Manager Katie Cole and Head Geek Patrick Hubbard as they dive deep into best practices for Pingdom®, the SaaS-based, end-user experience monitoring tool from SolarWinds.

Why we're partnering with Elastic to build the Elasticsearch plugin for Grafana

As I’ve often talked about before, we have a “big tent” philosophy at Grafana Labs. We believe our users should determine their own observability strategy and choose their own tools; Grafana allows them to bring together and understand all their data, no matter where it lives. In practice, that means that we want to support data sources that our users are passionate about.

Validating the resilience of your API gateway with Chaos Engineering

Get started with Gremlin's Chaos Engineering tools to safely, securely, and simply inject failure into your systems to find weaknesses before they cause customer-facing issues. API gateways are a critical component of distributed systems and cloud-native deployments. They perform many important functions including request routing, caching, user authentication, rate limiting, and metrics collection. However, this means that any failures in your API gateway can put your entire deployment at risk.

Why we went passwordless on our new product

Passwords are dying. The cost of creating and maintaining passwords is becoming untenable. Which can be seen in the rise of users logging in with social products and developers outsourcing their pain to Auth0 and the likes. We decided to sidestep the password based authentication and went passwordless on our new product. Read on to see how you can go passwordless too.

Microservices vs APIs: One Doesn't Always Imply the Other

When it comes to conversations around application architecture or working with integrations between applications, you’ve likely heard a couple terms pop up a few times: microservice and APIs. You might also have run across the common misconception that microservices are just a way to implement APIs so they can communicate with each other. As you’ll see in this article, there are alternative ways to architect our microservice applications.

4 Reasons Why Sales Engineering Resources are Essential for Growth?

Sales engineers play a significant role in bridging the gap between internal teams and customers. This shared services team has product experts who possess a sound technical background and a deep understanding of customer expectations. With that, they support several business functions like Sales, Customer Service, Research and Development, and so on. Sales engineering professionals can wear many hats because of their in-depth understanding of the products and the business itself.

The future of SCOM

'SCOM is here to stay'. Please read the following extract from an article written by Richard Benwell, CEO at SquaredUp. Gartner predicts that 30% of Enterprise IT spending will be on cloud and outsourcing by 2023. That’s 70% spending on non-cloud and outsourcing – the in-house infrastructure and software we have today. And if you’re running traditional Windows and Linux workloads at scale, SCOM remains the best tool on the market.

Deploying Ruby on Rails to Hetzner Cloud with Cloud 66

Ruby on Rails is one of the most popular frameworks for developing web applications. If you're looking for an easy and reliable way to deploy your Rails application to production on Hetzner Cloud with Cloud 66, you're in the right place. Based on your infrastructure requirements you can choose between two Cloud 66 products: you can either natively deploy your Rails app with Cloud 66 for Rails, or deploy a containerized Rails application with Cloud 66 Maestro.