In this, The New Stack Makers podcast, hosted by Alex Williams, founder, and publisher of The New Stack, Joe Vaccaro, head of products, ThousandEyes, discussed today’s digital supply chain for the modern app experience and managing backend interdependencies.

The days are long gone when users accessed data mainly through local area network (LAN) connections and ran applications stored on centralized servers in the data center. Conversely, in today’s highly distributed network experience, the user’s access to applications is through a vast contingent of network connections, supported by microservices and in multicloud environments. Application performance is also highly dependent on DNS and other network connections for which organizations often lack visibility into the complete digital supply chain. In many cases, for example, it is thus difficult to determine whether sub-par application performance is due to network connectivity or bad code in the stack.