3 years ago

The pandemic has forced many teams to either accelerate their digital transformation initiatives or start them sooner than they expected to have to. The PwC US CFO Pulse Survey asked finance leaders which programs they wanted to protect versus cut; programs that were firmly in the “protect” camp were customer experience, cybersecurity and (you guessed it) digital transformation.

As a technology provider, I wanted to understand those challenges intimately, in order to build software that better suits the needs of our customers in this new reality.

While cloud native apps have their benefits — mainly that they make it easier and more cost-effective to scale up and scale out easily — they also bring a new set of challenges that may cause frustration in engineering teams.

Forty-five percent of respondents reported that they or their teams debug 5-10 hours per week, and over 30% debug even more than that.”