Datadog and MongoDB are trading near 52-week lows. Yet both companies are seeing strong demand from customers.A 2022 examination of the information technology sector (let alone individual companies in that sector) would have just about any investor second-guessing the decision to go anywhere near it. TheNasdaq Compositeindex is largely made up of companies in theinformation technology sector, particularly software companies. Right now, the Nasdaq is trading down about 28.4% in 2022.Looking at that poor stock performance, it would seem most software and information technology companies did poorly this year. In some instances, the drop in valuation is truly warranted. Investors got caught up in ameme-stock euphoriain 2021 and several companies ended up overvalued based on short-term thinking