Stephen Watts
Service Performance Monitoring Explained
In this blog post we’ll look at how service performance monitoring works, outline the benefits it brings to the enterprise and look at some of the related tools that can help you get started.
Real-Time Data: An Overview and Introduction
Real-time data has become fundamental to understanding and optimizing IT infrastructure for IoT and beyond. This blog post covers the basics of this important technology.
KPI Management: A Complete Introduction
This blog post covers the ins and outs of KPI Management to help you understand good vs bad KPIs and common pitfalls to avoid.
The Serverless Functions Beginner's Guide
In this article, we’ll look at how serverless functions work, how they can be used and how they can help your organization.
Service Delivery for IT and Business
In this blog post, we take an in-depth look at how service delivery is used in IT and business in general.
Service Assurance for IT, Telecom, & Cloud
This blog post covers the basics surrounding service assurance as it relates to IT service delivery, cloud, Telecom, & more.
IT Operations Analytics: An Introduction
This blog covers the history and current state of IT Operations Analytics (ITOA), a practice used to improve and manage IT systems.
Infrastructure Security 101: An Introduction
This blog post covers the basics around infrastructure security, network infrastructure security, cloud infrastructure security and more.
Infrastructure Analytics: A Beginner's Guide
This blog post covers all the basics around Infrastructure Analytics for IT, IoT, and more.
CloudOps: An Introduction to Cloud Operations
Learn the basics of Cloud Operations (CloudOps) in this in-depth blog post.
Kotter’s 8 Steps for Leading Change in Organizations
Organizational change is hard. But following 8 steps will help! Read on for practical tips and insights for success with the Kotter 8 step process.
DevOps Release Management Concepts & Best Practices
Explore DevOps release management best practices that help your team automate and maintain rapid deployment schedules for releasing reliable software faster.
Common Event Format (CEF): An Introduction
In this blog post, we'll take a look at common event format (CEF) s a standard for the interoperability of event- or log generating devices and applications.
Using Splunk for SEO Log File Analysis
This blog post will showcase just a few of the ways we’re using Splunk to improve our own technical SEO.
Splunk MINT: A Complete Introduction
Looking for Splunk MINT? This blog post explains in detail what Splunk MINT was, what happened to Splunk MINT, and much more.
Splunk Light: An Introduction and Beginner's Guide
Looking for Splunk Light? This blog post explains in detail what Splunk Light was, what happened to Splunk Light, and much more.
Is Blockchain Dead? No. Is Web3 Dead? Maybe.
This blog post explores trends around Web3, Blockchain, NFTs, Cryptocurrency, and related technologies.
Cloud Network Monitoring: An Introduction
Network monitoring vs cloud monitoring: do you really need both? Find out why cloud network monitoring is the key to business success in this article.
Trunk-Based Development vs. GitFlow: Which Source Code Control is Right for You?
Understand trunk-based development and GitFlow, two source code management approaches, so you can decide which is right for your developer environment.
What Is TBD? Trunk-Based Development & Its Role in CI/CD
Trunk-based development is a popular way to control source code when developing apps. Learn how TBD works, how it supports CI/CD, and when to avoid it.
Status Pages: The Ultimate Guide
Status pages show real-time status of applications and services. See how these best practices make status pages succeed — and why that’s crucial for business.
Production Environment Review: The Ultimate Checklist
Make releases smoother! Check this list for all the areas you want to review in production environments to improve release quality and cadence.
When and Why To Adopt Feature Flags
Learn all about feature flags, a powerful way to fine-tune your control over which features are enabled within a software deployment.
Best DevOps Books: The Definitive List
In this blog post we’ll look at the core, fundamental books that have played the largest role in creating the modern DevOps movement.
