Did you know that ignoring customer feedback has resulted in 14% of startup failures within the last few years? Besides sketchy products, poor pivots, and lousy marketing strategies, they all boil down to one factor - the lack of constructive criticism. As a startup business, it's essential to solve problems the right way. Therefore, having a strong personality when facing constructive criticism is necessary, as it will lead to further improvement of your products and services. And your startup's best critics are your customers. As such, listening to what your customers have to say will help your company produce better quality items in the future.

It's impossible to learn about containerization without hearing about Docker and Kubernetes. These two tools together dominate the world of containers, both being the de-facto standard in what they each do. When you're first getting started learning about containers, it can be quite a challenge to figure out what the differences are between these two tools.

Errors are an inevitable part of building software. But while you can't eradicate them, you can definitely mitigate them. If you don't measure, track or resolve errors, you're ignoring a loss in revenue. It's time to pay attention to how much software errors are costing your company and take action, catching them early with methods like smarter testing and crash reporting. Using a few industry averages, you can put a number to the real cost of software errors in your company and start to plug cash leaks like wasted developer time and lost customers.

Regardless of which role a person has in an organization, they will always need access to one or more databases to be able to perform the functions of their job. Whether that person is a cashier at McDonald's or a technical account manager supporting a Fortune 500 company, data entry and retrieval is core to the services they provide.

When conducting business online it is vital to be able to track all parts of any financial transactions conducted by your organization. Where different companies are working together on different steps in the process, this isn't always simple to achieve. It is important to ensure that there is an appropriate level of observability at the heart of all of your systems and that it is easy to track the result of business decisions to real-world actions.

Exoprise customers are already enjoying the full benefits of 24*7 active monitoring for their enterprise applications. Don't believe us? Take a look at one of our case studies. While synthetic monitoring (aka Active Monitoring) is great for proactively detecting SaaS, network, and Internet outages, the IT world has now switched to Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) solutions. Thanks to Covid, that took the world by storm.

The Great Resignation has been a time of reckoning and disruption for many businesses. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than 40 million people voluntarily left a job in 2021, the highest such rate in more than four decades.