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The Orion Platform and the SolarWinds Platform - What's the Difference?

For the better part of twenty years, the SolarWinds Orion Platform has provided the consolidated web console, alerting engine, reporting engine, and the API upon which our Network, Systems, Virtualization, Storage, and other management solutions rely. That technology was always evolving release-to-release, and the next stage in that evolution is a new name. Now called the SolarWinds Platform, it's built on the same technology that's been part of our customers' experiences for years.

Is Kubernetes Still the Best Container Orchestration Tool?

Over the last few years, containers have been one of the hottest topics when it comes to radically changing the way we develop, operate, and maintain our applications. And it’s no coincidence the rise of containers has occurred right alongside the rise of the cloud and the DevOps movement. This shift in development and operations has brought new challenges as container technologies have evolved.

Comparing Cybersecurity Trends Since the Pandemic

The pandemic has brought a great number of changes with it for businesses, from remote work to increased cyber threats. The IT concerns we had pre-pandemic are simply not the same now, especially when it comes to cybersecurity. With October being Cybersecurity Awareness month, I wanted to reflect on these changes and what we as a community have learned over the past couple of years.

A Demonstration of SolarWinds Observability | SolarWinds Day Virtual Showcase (Oct 22)

Join Head Geek Chrystal Taylor and VP of Product Josh Stageberg as they show off SolarWinds Observability— our new SaaS offering that unifies application, infrastructure, database, network, digital experience, and log analysis into a single, integrated platform. It lets you group together elements like microservices, hosts, databases, and websites and quickly determine the holistic health of your online application and how it impacts your business performance. Reduce cost, optimize performance, and ensure reliability for all your business-critical systems with SolarWinds Observability.

A Demonstration of Hybrid Cloud Observability | SolarWinds Day Virtual Showcase (Oct 22)

Head Geek Chrystal Taylor and GVP of Product Brandon Shopp walk you through the latest updates to SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability. HCO gives teams a more proactive solution, making them better informed and enabling them to focus on the most business-critical issues. This full-stack approach provides a centralized view of your IT infrastructure and services, and delivers powerful functionality to help businesses and organizations of any size maximize their time and resources.

A Demonstration of Hybrid Cloud Observability | SolarWinds Day Virtual Showcase (Oct 22)

Head Geek Chrystal Taylor and GVP of Product Brandon Shopp walk you through the latest updates to SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability. Hybrid Cloud Observability gives teams a more proactive solution, making them better informed and enabling them to focus on the most business-critical issues. This full-stack approach provides a centralized view of your IT infrastructure and services, and delivers powerful functionality to help businesses and organizations of any size maximize their time and resources.

How Do MySQL Indexes Work? An In-Depth Tutorial on Creating Clustered and Secondary Indexes and The Effect on Database Performance

MySQL is the most used database in the world. And as it continues to grow in popularity as an open-source database system for developers, understanding how these indexes work is an important step for database developers and administrators. This tutorial is going to explore clustered indexes and secondary indexes in MySQL. MySQL also has other types of indexes besides the B-tree indexes I’ll be discussing, such as fulltext indexes and hash indexes.

The Roblox Outage

Just before Halloween 2021, Roblox engineers experienced a horror story: a service outage that also took down critical monitoring systems. It seemed like the issue was a hardware problem, but it wasn’t. Users were frustrated, and the clock was ticking. After three full days of downtime, service was finally restored on Halloween day. While the incident itself was an IT nightmare, Roblox’s detailed technical post-mortem several months later was an excellent way to bounce back.