Stephen Watts
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
