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As EVP, chief customer officer, I regularly speak with enterprise-level customers to provide continued support and strategize how SolarWinds can best support their goals. When my team or I meet with executives who have chosen to partner with us, we always start with two things in mind: 1) what the change looks like and 2) how we can facilitate it. Our goal is to provide solutions to the challenges our customers face.

Digital transformation is accelerating across organizations of all sizes around the world, and a survey by Mckinsey reveals COVID-19 accelerated the speed of adoption of digital technologies by several years.

The arrival of Docker container technology brought with it an amazing array of capabilities. By encapsulating an entire software package, including its dependencies and libraries, into a single, portable container, Docker has made deployment across platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Apache a simple and straightforward process. When people talk about Docker, they probably talk about Docker Engine, the runtime that allows you to build and run containers.

SD-WAN technology is a hot topic in the networking world, with many businesses transitioning to SD-WAN networks for the promise of improved performance and reliability. However, after migrating, numerous companies find themselves lacking in SD-WAN network visibility. This makes it difficult to identify and address performance issues and determine whether their SD-WAN service is meeting expectations. Are you tired of feeling like you're driving blindfolded when it comes to your company's network?

Businesses are increasingly adopting distributed microservices to build and deploy applications. Microservices directly streamline the production time from development to deployment; thus, businesses can scale faster. However, with the increasing complexity of distributed services comes visual opacity of your systems across the company. In other words, the more complex your system gets, the harder it becomes to visualize how it works and how individual resources are allocated.

The IT security landscape has been fundamentally transformed with the advent of cryptocurrencies, which have enabled hackers to easily monetize their activities without being tracked. This is one of the key drivers behind ransomware attacks becoming more numerous and more frequent.

Welcome to our monthly product newsletter - SigNal 22! Last month our team worked on improving the logs tab and improved the correlation between telemetry signals to drive contextual insights faster. We were also trending on GitHub and crossed 2000+ developers in our slack community. Let’s dive in to see what humans at SigNoz were up to in the month of February 2023.

Version control systems are valuable tools for tracking and managing changes to software projects. They record every modification to software code and store the complete project history in a database, enabling developers to collaborate, experiment with new features, and roll back changes when necessary. Git is the most widely used version control system today.

Release notes provide essential documentation when a new software version is released. For release notes to be most effective, dev teams must consolidate all of the work that has been done since the previous release. It is a hectic task that requires a lot of effort and time sorting through weeks or even months of software issues and pull requests. Why not make the life of the release team easier by automating the creation of release notes?

What's the difference between SLAs vs SLOs vs SLIs. Understanding these little nuances are critical for DevOps folks. Here's a simple reckoner on what each of these mean.