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James Barnes

Blog post author James Barnes
Senior Product Manager

James Barnes

James is a Senior Product Manager at SolarWinds in Austin, Texas. In addition to his current role, James has spent time as a Senior Sales Engineer, Systems Engineer, Software Developer, and Network Administrator spanning nearly 25 years. When James isn’t busy keeping products on track, he devotes his time to enjoying all the Austin area has to offer with his beautiful and talented wife and wonderful children.

The Latest Posts Featuring James Barnes

Inside the Black Box: Bridging the Database Observability Gap

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.

March 27, 2026
Database
Inside the Black Box: Bridging the Database Observability Gap
IT pro looks at computer and works
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Product Management: What Does It Mean? How Do You Do It?
April 27, 2022
News
I’m often asked all kinds of interesting questions in my day-to-day work. Usually, these questions are related to the products we build here at SolarWinds®, and I absolutely love answering…