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During the course of execution, software programs accumulate several data objects that serve no purpose in the program and need to be let go. If not dealt with, they can keep eating up memory and significantly hamper performance. Garbage collection is the process of cleaning up all these useless data objects that continue to reside in memory. It frees up the corresponding RAM to make room for new program objects.

Recently our CMO, Nik Koutsoukos, and VP Operations, Tony Ferelli, joined Heavy Network on a podcast discussing Digital Experience Monitoring, and how effective monitoring requires a focus on the user experience. Most monitoring tools monitor from the network or application perspective. Now that microservices and multi-cloud environments are commonly used, monitoring is more challenging. The better monitoring approach is being user-centric.

The new Honeycomb Kubernetes agent is out! This post describes how infrastructure metrics contribute to observability, and then walks you through the steps to start sending your own Kubernetes data into Honeycomb. Follow the steps to start observing your infrastructure in production!

Elastic on Google Cloud gives you the power of Elastic Enterprise Search, Elastic Observability, Elastic Security as well as the Elastic Stack so you can quickly and easily search your environment for information, analyze data to observe insights, and protect your technology investments. Elastic Cloud lets you deploy your way, whether as a managed service, or with orchestration tools you manage in your Google Cloud environment.

Product-led growth has become a popular go-to-market strategy in the digital age. In its superlative form, everything a company does from marketing, sales, operations, development and support is driven by and through the product. The goals are to make products easier to acquire, onboard, use and achieve quick time to value. The product-led growth market strategy revolves around the user and is best geared toward engaging with smaller accounts rather than large enterprise companies.

You’ve heard that old Chinese proverb that says a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. It’s sound advice … except if the journey you’re talking about is the one from the data center to the cloud. With cloud deployment at the center of virtually any digital transformation effort, the journey itself can have a profound impact on the successful outcomes you seek at the destination. So you have to get it right. But what does that actually mean?