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The DevEx Advantage: Understanding and Improving Developer Experience

Developer Experience (DevEx) is a general term that encompasses all of the interactions a developer has with their work environment. The tools that a developer uses, the processes they employ, and even the organizational culture, all play a role in establishing a great Developer Experience – or, unfortunately, a bad one.

ScienceLogic Wins TrustRadius's 2025 Buyer's Choice Award

At ScienceLogic, we’re dedicated to leveraging innovation to enhance customer satisfaction. Our mission is to transform the complexity of IT operations into a streamlined and straightforward workflow, empowering our customers to focus on what matters most. We’re thrilled to see this commitment recognized with the 2025 TrustRadius “Buyer’s Choice” Award (formerly the “Best of” Awards), a distinction we previously received in 2022 and 2023.

WordPress vs. WP Engine: Protect Your Sites

Recently, a public dispute erupted between WordPress and WP Engine, one of the most popular managed WordPress hosting platforms. The disagreement centers around WP Engine’s use of the WordPress brand, licensing concerns, and differing views on managing the open-source platform. This fallout could impact WP Engine customers especially those who rely heavily on WordPress for their sites.

Optimizing Application Performance with Contextualized Metric, Log & Trace Data

Every organization relies on mission-critical applications and services that ultimately generate revenue, so the user experience has never been more important. Companies trust their developer and operations (DevOps) teams to ensure important applications run smoothly. DevOps teams, in turn, trust application performance optimization tools to quickly identify and resolve issues or avoid them altogether in the first place.

Cloud Migration Benefits - and the Challenges to Overcome

Cloud migration has become a strategic priority for many organizations. By moving data, applications and IT resources from on-premises infrastructure to a cloud-based environment, they can see multiple benefits. But cloud migration also comes with its own unique challenges. Gaining a deeper understanding of both the benefits and possible pitfalls of cloud computing is crucial before embarking on your cloud journey.

NIST and the Evolution of Zero Trust

It’s important for every cybersecurity professional to understand the work of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). That’s because it plays a pivotal role in shaping the cybersecurity landscape, particularly through its groundbreaking NIST zero trust efforts. Zero trust is a security paradigm that transforms the traditional approach to network security.

Edit your Git-based Grafana dashboards locally

Grafana has grown to become one of the most prominent dashboarding tools available, with an extensive set of features that support organizations of all sizes. There can come a time, however, when you have too many dashboards. As a software engineer, you might think, “Why can’t I do with dashboards what I do with my code?” That is, you know how to keep your code in version control (e.g., Git). You know how to share and review your code with colleagues (e.g., pull requests).

Northern Exposure: the confidence connecting Scotland and the Nordics to drive data centre evolution

Scotland has a strong historical record in seeking out and supporting data centre investment. The Green Datacentres and Digital Connectivity: Vision and Action plan is already four years old. However, time has not dampened enthusiasm. The renewed interest in data centre investment that has followed encouraging comments from Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, has spread across the UK.

Consolidation and Modernization in Enterprise Observability

Organizations are seeing measurable benefits from investing in observability, including faster issue resolution, cost reduction, and improved business outcomes. However, challenges still remain, including rising costs, tool fragmentation, and the need for more comprehensive monitoring of internet dependencies and user experience. Let’s explore these challenges and the best practices organizations are adopting to address them.

From stateful to stateless: Sumo Logic's transition from Lucene to Parquet-based architecture

Ensuring scalability, performance, and cost-effectiveness is a constant challenge for cloud-native log management and observability. At Sumo Logic, we faced this challenge head-on by transitioning from a stateful, Lucene-based architecture to a completely stateless, Parquet-based architecture. This transformation lets us improve data storage efficiency, streamline operational complexity, and meet the demands of an ever-increasing data scale.