Many organizations invest in high availability and disaster recovery for their key applications. Too many of these organizations, however, forego the most important aspect of this process—testing the failover process…
What is Chaos Engineering? A Guide on Its History, Key Principles, and Benefits
Pros and Cons of Horizontal vs. Vertical Scaling
Have you ever dealt with an application workload suddenly increasing and the demand on SQL Server begins to increase exponentially as a result? Maybe you’ve never had one of those…
Little Fires; Are They Worth IT? — SolarWinds TechPod 067
Have you ever heard someone say, “I’m too busy putting out fires”? What if the only way to get ahead of those fires was to make way for change—to improve…
Getting Started With Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Open-source software (OSS) relational database management systems (RDBMSes) are becoming incredibly popular in the cloud computing world. In this article, I’ll discuss one of the most popular OSS relational databases,…
Comparing DBA, DBRE, and SRE Roles
As I navigate further into my career, I’m finding the scope of my role has shifted over the years. I thought I’d take some time to help relay the differences…
Importance of Data Warehouse Automation
The enterprise data warehouse (EDW) provides access to business data stored in a denormalized structure called a star schema, which makes it easy to analyze, visualize, and forecast essential business…
Importance of Data Warehouse Automation
The enterprise data warehouse (EDW) provides access to business data stored in a denormalized structure called a star schema, which makes it easy to analyze, visualize, and forecast essential business…
How Customers Drive Our Continuous Innovation
With more than 300,000 customers, a thriving community of 185,000 THWACK® users, frequent SWUG™ events, and some 650,000 developers certified on SolarWinds® products, we have a unique ability to keep…
What’s a Webhook?
If you’re a developer or site reliability engineer, you might have noticed options to use webhooks in your cloud monitoring or automation settings. And if you have a great deal…
Three Ways a Proactive Defense Strategy Can Prevent Cyberattacks
Schools and local municipalities have always been vulnerable to cyberattacks, but in recent years, especially since the pandemic’s beginning, they have been increasingly more prone to threats. According to a…