By Nate Rich, Senior Director, ITSM and Observability Management at Foulk Consulting Every modern enterprise engineering team has experienced the classic 3:00 AM war room scenario: A critical customer-facing service degrades.…
When performance bottlenecks hit production, Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools are invaluable for pointing out where the fire is. But why are we waiting for the alarm to sound at…
By Caleb Billingsley, AI Testing and Performance Expert, Foulk Consulting For decades, enterprise ERP landscapes were defined by pervasive customization. When business logic required unique billing rules, bespoke pricing algorithms,…
By Miguel Pacheco, SAP Principal Engineer at Foulk Consulting In enterprise IT, “DevOps” is easy to put on a PowerPoint slide. But inside a traditional SAP shop, making it a…
By Nate Rich, Principal Engineer at Foulk Consulting Every enterprise observability rollout follows a familiar trajectory. Phase one begins with genuine momentum. Executive sponsors sign off on the New Relic contract, leadership…
By Caleb Billingsley, AI Testing and Performance Expert, Foulk Consulting For years, performance engineering carried a simple, high-stakes value proposition: prevent the catastrophic outage. We pointed to the high-profile eCommerce…
By Miguel Pacheco, SAP Principal Engineer at Foulk Consulting If you’ve managed SAP landscapes over the last two decades, SAP Solution Manager (SolMan) has almost certainly been the operational nervous…
By Nate Rich, Principal Engineer at Foulk Consulting Every year, enterprise IT teams invest heavily in state-of-the-art observability software—from Dynatrace and New Relic to Datadog and OpenTelemetry. The pitch is…
By Caleb Billingsley, AI Testing and Performance Expert, Foulk Consulting You’ve spent months planning. The architecture design was meticulously reviewed, development hit every major milestone, and functional testing cleared with…
By Miguel Pacheco, SAP Principal Engineer, Foulk Consulting When IT leadership thinks about SAP risk, they usually envision the titans: a massive S/4HANA migration, a global instance consolidation, or a…
