Over the past 15 years, Agile and DevOps have accelerated application delivery, enabling faster, more reliable releases. Yet the database layer often remains a blind spot for observability and performance monitoring.

In this article, Kevin Kline shows why closing the database observability gap is critical to improving performance, efficiency, and resilience for DBAs, developers, and the businesses that depend on their data.

This article was updated on August 28th 2024 Application engineers, sometimes called software development engineers, play a crucial role in bridging customer needs and the efforts of application development teams.…

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