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Enterprises have enough data, in fact, they are overwhelmed with it, but finding the nuggets of value amongst the data ‘noise’ is not all that simple. It is bucket’d, blob’d, and bestrewn across the enterprise infrastructure in clouds, filesystems, and hosts machines. It’s logs, metrics, traces, config files, and more, but as Jimmy Buffett says, “we’ve all got ’em, we all want ’em, but what do we do with ’em”.
Digital transformation—and its intended benefits, including flexibility, scalability, agility, cost control, and more—is enabled by cloud computing. You need all these things because, now more than ever, businesses and markets are highly dynamic. Sometimes it’s an opportunity you want to capitalize on. Other times it’s a threat, such as a disruptive competitor, or a challenge, like new regulatory requirements. Some things you see coming, and others take you by surprise.
Teams has become more than just a handy platform to send the odd chat message or drop documents over to a colleague. In fact, it’s become fundamental to the way organizations across the world operate. But does it tick every box for modern businesses? Nearly, yes.
At one particular time, a developer would spend a few months building a new feature. Then they’d go through the tedious soul-crushing effort of “integration.” That is, merging their changes into an upstream code repository, which had inevitably changed since they started their work. This task of Integration would often introduce bugs and, in some cases, might even be impossible or irrelevant, leading to months of lost work.
Today's applications are incredibly intricate and interconnected, often relying on numerous third-party services and libraries. With this complexity comes an increased likelihood of things going wrong. However, an error doesn't usually announce itself with great fanfare and a detailed explanation. More often than not, it shows up as an unexplained crash, a suspicious slowdown, or a surprising output. Error logging shines a spotlight on these problems.
