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Melanie Achard

Melanie Achard is a director of product marketing at SolarWinds. Achard’s career in technology started out as favor to a friend when she wrote her first software program on a Morrow Micro System. Her curiosity piqued, she accepted a software development position at a startup and was instantly hooked. Since then, she has worked in software engineering, product management, and product marketing at a variety of companies—from small, three-person startups to large Fortune 500 organizations—all with a focus on solving problems that people care about. With 30 years of experience across multiple technology disciplines—from systems administration, IT security, and regulatory compliance to external device management and mobile applications—she continues to advance her knowledge and understanding of the continually evolving technology landscape. In 2018, Melanie joined SolarWinds to focus on the growth of the company’s DevOps products—Pingdom, AppOptics, Papertrail, and Loggly.

Posts Featuring Melanie Achard

Finding the Sweet Spot Between Innovation and Optimization

Balancing growth and performance optimization is a constant tension in all aspects of business. This is particularly true in DevOps, where there’s a drive to release more features faster to…

Platform Engineering – Paving the Way to Accelerate Releases

Platform engineering started appearing in 2017 and was identified as a distinct DevOps role in 2019 in the book Team Topologies. Adoption quickly accelerates, and by 2022, there are platform…

The Papertrail SaaS Add-On in DigitalOcean Centralizes Everything You Need for Log Management

The SolarWinds® Papertrail™ software as a service (SaaS) Add-On in the DigitalOcean Marketplace is one of the most exciting developments to come out of the DigitalOcean and Papertrail partnership. With…

How to Optimize Your WordPress Site With Pingdom Real User Monitoring

Learn how to capture insights from the end user down to the application To keep their applications and websites available and accessible, today’s businesses put a lot of emphasis on…

Leveraging APM to Conquer Custom App Management Troubles

Though you might use custom-made apps for many reasons, there’s only one reason you deploy them: off-the-shelf solutions just can’t get the job done. Whenever operations are too complex for…

Making Dev + Ops Possible with Log Management

You know how the saying goes—you can’t optimize what you can’t measure, and you can’t measure what you can’t monitor. Perhaps this isn’t a time-tested proverb just yet, but it…

Think You Don’t Need User Experience Monitoring? Think Again.

Unless your user is actually experiencing a service or website as it’s meant to be experienced, it doesn’t matter if your monitoring tool says it’s up or down. These are…