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Community update: Discourse, community efforts

Open source and community have always been in the DNA of Netdata, with the Agent starting as a very popular open-source project. Since then, a lot has changed, with Netdata maturing into a company, and the Netdata Agent finding its place as an open-source project in a wider offering that redesigns the monitoring experience from the ground up.

Ronald van Loon & Sendur Sellakumar | Splunk Cloud Is Rebuilt for the Data Age

Data analyst Ronald van Loon sits down with Splunk’s Sendur Sellakumar to discuss how companies can succeed in the data age. The conversation covers shifting to a cloud-native experience, honing in on a data-to-everything strategy, and customer-centric approach to data and product development. The majority of organizations are not prepared for an influx of data on the scale promised by the dawning data age. To thrive, every organization needs a complete view of its data — real-time insights with the ability to take real-time action.

10 Tips for Increasing Operational Efficiency

Operational efficiency is crucial to the success of your company. Improving efficiency is a combined effort of measuring and refining processes, employees, technology, and financials. The goal is the continual improvement of these aspects to maintain and increase your business’s operational efficiency. Do you want to learn more about enhancing your operational efficiency? Check out StartingPoint, the platform for customer success and service management!

Cloud 66 Feature Highlight: Verified Backups

While backups are an excellent way to start protecting your data from disasters and human error, you can do more to ensure their integrity with Verified Backups. Verified Backups work by running a user-defined query against a restored backup to ensure the data is what you expected it to be. Once the query runs successfully, the backup is marked as verified.

Project Build: Custom CD Pipeline Tutorial (Node + TypeScript + Cycle API)

Need to create a CD pipeline for your containers running on Cycle? Learn the how to build a Node based API enabling you to automate the entire container reimage process. We are also in the process of creating a CD Pipeline builder to be used from within our Portal, which will be released very soon! Connect with us: Website: cycle.io Slack: cycle.slack.io Linkedin: linkedin.com/company/cycle-platform/ Twitter: twitter.com/cycleplatform Facebook: facebook.com/CyclePlatform

Need for Speed: How SolarWinds Supports Its Partners in the Age of Digital Transformation

One of the biggest challenges organizations face in the current age of digital transformation is the issue of complexity. As the technology landscape continues to expand, organizations are increasingly moving away from centralized management to a more decentralized model. For many enterprises, monitoring, managing, and securing traditional and cloud-based infrastructures is becoming more difficult.

Monitor Applications Running in DigitalOcean Droplets

We’re happy to announce SolarWinds is partnering with DigitalOcean, a cloud infrastructure provider offering cloud services to help deploy modern apps, to offer application level monitoring to applications running in droplets with SolarWinds® application performance management (APM) solutions.

2021: The Year We May Be Able to Predict

Although our Head Geek Leon Adato may have attempted to predict 2020 last year, no one could’ve prepared us for what was to come. Today as we work from various remote spaces including our living rooms, kitchens, bedrooms, or any room where we can find a good Wi-Fi signal, it’s hard to think of what our situation will look like in 2021.

The Business Case for Observability with Context

My team was not happy with me. I had just convened a meeting of my direct reports — and the managers that reported to them — to deliver the news personally. “No more new tools,” I told them. “We have everything we need to do our job. Our environment just doesn’t change that fast. So stop bringing me requests for new tools. The answer is no.” It was unquestionably the right call at the time, but today, it would be laughable.