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In case you missed it, Hacker News had an extremely rare outage last week.

Playing online games is not only a mere leisure activity, but a main job for some people. Working as a game player is not something odd or unheard of anymore. Some gamers generate more income than corporate workers. It’s true. For example, Johan Sundstein earns more than $7 million per month just for playing games. What a life! The most recent trend in the online gaming industry is blockchain games. They have received a lot of recognition for utilizing cryptography-based blockchain technologies.

Insights from the 2022 Results That Matter study Correlating data across multiple silos and applications to derive meaningful and actionable insights is an ongoing struggle. These challenges are only set to increase as high-speed connectivity becomes more ubiquitous and enables data-heavy, digital experiences.

One of the easiest ways to see if the application running in our nodes is in an optimized state or not is by monitoring them. It is the last yet critical stage of any software development lifecycle. It opens up many possible improvements in your application, networking, IT automation, and other miscellaneous configurations. As we move towards microservice architecture, containerization and orchestration tools are rising. Containers are special processes that run in isolation from other processes.

It’s January 1969, and the pressure is on. Paul, John, George, and Ringo have 17 days to write and record 14 songs. Peter Jackson’s epic documentary, “Get Back,” captures their creative process. We witness individual genius at work, but it’s when the Fab Four play together that we experience the magic of the Beatles. I think the same is true of field service. Our industry is full of talented individuals who are often under pressure.

The "atop" is an advanced system and process monitor used in the Linux environment to analyze the server performance. It is necessary to analyze the performance of the server continuously. It is a performance monitor which gives us a report on all the activities of processes running on a server.

Like most large software development organizations, SolarWinds uses many programming languages to build our applications, including Go, Java, C++, Python, and more. The predominant language for our Orion® Platform is C#, based on Microsoft’s.NET Framework. As you are likely aware, the directions Microsoft has taken the.NET Framework over the past few years have created exciting new opportunities.

Kentik Synthetics is all about proactively testing and monitoring specific elements of your network, the services it relies on, and the applications it delivers. That means using artificial traffic instead of end-user traffic to test a variety of aspects of digital experience monitoring like device availability, DNS activity, web application page load times, and BGP activity. But to test an end-user’s experience interacting with a website, we need to approach things differently.