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Stephen Watts

Stephen Watts works in growth marketing at Splunk. Stephen holds a degree in Philosophy from Auburn University and is an MSIS candidate at UC Denver. He contributes to a variety of publications including CIO.com, Search Engine Journal, ITSM.Tools, IT Chronicles, DZone, and CompTIA.

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Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) vs. Load Balancers: What’s The Difference?

CDNs and load balancers fulfill similar roles, but they are different tools. This article breaks down the differences so you can decide which is right for you.
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The Bulkhead and Sidecar Design Patterns for Microservices & Incident Resolution

This article looks at Bulkhead and Sidecar design patterns, including how they’re used in microservice designs — and how they help overall incident support.
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CVE Severity & How To Respond To CVEs in Builds

CVEs can be serious enough to reject a build. These approaches and best practices help you assess CVE severity and determine how to manage a build.
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Kubernetes 101: How To Set Up “Vanilla” Kubernetes

Kubernetes 101: Set up the most basic K8s cluster — also known as Vanilla Kubernetes — with this hands-on tutorial that gets you started quickly and easily.
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Network vs. Application Performance Monitoring: What's The Difference?

Monitoring networks and application performance are different practices. Understand the changes and see how, together, both can offer end-to-end observability.
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Common Anomaly Detection Challenges & How To Solve Them

Anomaly detection is a key use case for machine learning, but it comes with challenges. Learn how to address issues of data quality, imbalance and sample size.
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State of Kubernetes: Report Roundup

In this blog post, we’ll take a look at a variety of surveys and data that collectively describe the Kubernetes landscape.
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Monitoring Windows Infrastructure: Tools, Apps, Metrics & Best Practices

Learn how to monitor your Windows infrastructure, including the best tools and apps to use, the top metrics to monitor and how to analyze those metrics.
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NoOps Explained: How Does NoOps Compare with DevOps?

Take a look at NoOps, the concept of automating IT and development: how it works, pros and cons and whether it’s an evolution — or the end — of DevOps.
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Splunk Tutorial: Getting Started Using Splunk

Whether you are new to Splunk or just needing a refresh, this post can guide you to some of the best resources on the web for using Splunk.
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Common DevOps Roles and Responsibilities

Understand the core principles of DevOps — collaboration, automation, transparency and accountability — to see how DevOps can help you drive business value.
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How To Prepare for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Interview

Prepare for your SRE interviews. These are common questions and answers to expect in any site reliability engineer interview.
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Using the Density Function to Create Adaptive Thresholding with Splunk

Past data supports adaptive thresholding with Splunk. Learn how — and when — to use the probability density function to create adaptive thresholding.
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Time Series Forecasting Use Cases and Anomaly Detection

Understand time series forecasting — a way to or predict behaviors based on historical, timestamped data — with anomaly detection to prevent IT problems.
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CI/CD & DevOps Pipeline Analytics: A Primer

In this article, we explain why and how to add DevOps pipeline analytics to your observability strategy.
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Continuous Performance Management Basics

In this blog post, we will walk you through how to develop a continuous performance management playbook for your business.
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On-Premises Application Monitoring: An Introduction

This blog post explains how to approach on-premises application performance monitoring as part of a broader cloud-native performance optimization strategy.
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Kubernetes Monitoring: An Introduction

To help you get started with Kubernetes performance management, this article offers an overview of which metrics you’ll want to monitor and how to collect them.
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CI/CD Pipeline Monitoring: An Introduction

This blog post explains how to monitor the CI/CD delivery pipeline and how to correlate that data with other metrics in order to achieve optimal overall performance of your applications.
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API Testing vs Monitoring: What's The Difference?

Learn about the difference between API monitoring and testing, and when to use which approach in this blog post.
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API Testing: An Introduction

Learn why API testing is critical for digital businesses and the basics of how and what test in this blog post.
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Kubernetes Logging: Introduction & Challenges

Learn the basics of Kubernetes logging and the role that logging plays in your overall observability strategy in this blog post.
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API & HTTP Headers: How to Use Request Headers in API Checks

Learn about API & HTTP request headers and how to use request headers in API checks in this blog post.
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SRE Metrics: Four Golden Signals of Monitoring

Learn about the critical SRE metrics and how the four golden signals define what it means for a system to be “healthy” in this blog post.