[In part I of this blog series we saw an overview of our DBaaS design. In this blog (part II) we discuss the automated MySQL primary failover design in some detail.] We use the hashicorp consul and a custom consul watcher service, along with the orchestrator service, to inject proxySQL route changes in the event of a MySQL primary failure in a shard. Consul cluster

Teams at Freshworks primarily use MySQL for their database needs. Freshworks being an AWS shop, RDS MySQL has been our primary, go-to solution. Sometime back a team was formed and tasked with building a self-hosted DB solution. We called ourselves the DBaaS (Database as a service) team and started with a DBaaS solution for MySQL. In this blog post (part I of the series) we discuss the motivation and high-level architecture of the DBaaS solution.

Much like every other aspect of virtually running a business, technology has drastically changed customer service. There are constantly new channels for customers to reach out to businesses. An important addition to this growing list of channels is a customer service chatbot. In this blog, we talk about everything you need to know about a customer service chatbot.

If businesses were previously skeptical about the potential of chatbots in customer service, there is no longer any question about it. The pandemic has pushed businesses to mainstream AI and different types of chatbots for varied objectives. With evasive measures such as cost cuts, chatbots have not just helped businesses stay afloat but also garner the goodwill of customers and ROI.

“Customer needs serve as the ‘north star’ for most product leaders”, especially those who are always striving to leverage customer feedback to build the best products. An important part of this customer feedback naturally lands in support tools like Freshdesk, but your company actually has as many feedback channels as you have customer touchpoints and internal teams.

When it comes to customer service scripts, practitioners are as divided as people are about pineapple on pizza. The benefits of using customer service scripts are manifold, but there are some serious downsides too, like sounding robotic or not displaying enough empathy. However, when used wisely, scripts can be very helpful to customer service representatives. In this blog, we cover everything you need to know about customer service scripts.

With the holiday season upon us, your customers and agents are probably taking some well-deserved time off. It might take a little extra planning to ensure your remaining support team can manage customer issues without any hassle. Thankfully, Freshdesk can help! Here are three features that we think you’ll find particularly helpful during the holidays.

Every organization is unique. A customer service solution that works for one company may not work for another. Integrations help widen the scope of use cases that a customer service solution can handle, in addition to existing features. And Freshdesk has a Marketplace full of integration solutions to satisfy every customer need. Now let’s get a little more specific and ask a related question – what if your organization uses software that utilizes Microsoft SQL Server?

When they told us we would be working from home in March, we all thought it would be for a few days or maybe a few weeks. Tops. 2020 marked the end of a decade, and we had high hopes for how the year would fare. We know how that turned out. Despite adversity, it is amazing how we found ways to cope and strive forward. Above everything, that calls for a celebration—in a socially distanced manner, please!

Let’s be honest, we’d all appreciate a little less work during the holiday season. Luckily for you, with the right features in Freshdesk, you can easily reduce your workload and save a lot of time. Time you can spend singing Christmas carols and planning the perfect secret Santa gift! To help you get started, we’ve packaged our best agent productivity features in Christmas themes to help you get more done this holiday season.

At a conference in 1997, Steve Jobs famously said this in response to a provocative question from one of the audience members about the company’s strategy at the time: “You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology – not the other way around. “ Today, many companies have forgotten that the essence of running a business starts with the customer.

Gone are the days when customer support was just about resolving your customer’s issue. It has now become a key component of a brand’s overall customer experience and plays a vital role in differentiating it from the competition. 73% of customers fall in love with a brand and remain loyal because of friendly customer service reps, says a report by RightNow.

“Culture forms the bedrock of everything we do at Freshworks.” – Suman Gopalan, CHRO Freshworks When the pandemic broke out in March 2020, at Freshworks we were apprehensive about a lot of things, particularly about how we were going to collaborate across teams in different locations and get things done. Fast forward to September, we are quite proud of how far we have come, and of all the things we have been able to achieve.

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