Tips from the Team

Windows Event Log Filtering Techniques

Logs are a ubiquitous component of IT. They come in all shapes and sizes from a huge variety of sources and possible destinations. But at the end of the day, all types of logging serve a fundamental role in a technological infrastructure: they allow a system to record information about its behavior to a persistent medium. People can then look at this information and reconstruct what happened so they can detect and fix whatever issues they might find.

Best Tips for Monitoring and Filtering Your Web Server Logs

Server logs are important and can never be left out of web development. There’s no such thing as a perfect website—even one owned by a big tech company is likely to have errors in production. Using web server logs, you can easily know where the problem is coming from and solve it on time. Logs are automatically created by the server and consist of files containing information such as errors, requests made to the server, and other information worth looking at.

Intelligent Alerts for Log Monitoring: Filter Out the Noise

Creating alerts to spot problems before your users do is simple. However, when you receive too many alerts, you might end up ignoring critical problems.

Tips for Logging Apps on DigitalOcean

As a developer, you’ll always face challenges with your applications. Some of these challenges arise from the server after deploying code. It can sometimes be difficult to know what the problem is, especially if the app is running as expected in your development environment. This is something no one can escape. These errors are bound to happen to anyone, regardless of their level of experience as a software engineer or developer.

Tips for Optimizing Apps Running in Heroku

Heroku is a popular platform-as-a-service (PaaS) cloud that allows you to run your applications in a serverless manner. This blog is about optimizing applications running in Heroku: making them run faster, giving them better security, and generally fine-tuning them.

HAProxy Logging- How to Tune Timeouts for Performance

HAProxy (high availability proxy) is a critical part of modern systems infrastructure. It’s ideally the first point of contact for users who access your application. When configured correctly, HAProxy improves your app’s performance significantly. Through load balancing, HAProxy makes sure each service your application depends on is accessible to users, especially under load conditions otherwise impacting application performance.

8 Python Logging Pitfalls to Avoid

Logging is crucial in software development, so it’s vital to get it right. That’s easier said than done, unfortunately. Application logging—Python logging included—is riddled with traps you might fall prey to if you aren’t careful.

But you can’t beware what you don’t know, and that’s where this post comes in handy. We’re here to warn you about eight of the most common logging pitfalls in Python. You’ll learn about each problem and techniques and tools you can use to avoid it.

Traps to Avoid When Setting Up PHP for Heroku

PHP powers millions of applications. This massive success is due to PHP’s simplicity, clear documentation, and tons of free resources. The PHP community provides an incredible ecosystem of libraries and tools, enabling anyone to develop production-grade apps rapidly. What’s even more exciting is PHP projects are cheap to host and widely supported by many platform providers such as Heroku.

Logging in Java – Best Practices and Tips

Robust application logging is central to any quality strategy. Unfortunately, many quality strategies fall short, implementing logging in a less than stellar way. Java application logging is no different. And since we’re talking about one of the most popular programming languages, investments in improving the overall Java logging strategy could pay off many dividends in the future.

Cloud-Based, Cloud-Native, and Cloud-Enabled Applications—What’s the Difference?

There are a lot of “cloudy” terms out there now. Is cloud-native better than cloud-based? Am I considered in the “cloud” when my application is cloud-enabled? Let’s take a closer look at the difference between cloud-native, cloud-based, and cloud-enabled to tease apart these different terms.