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Steve Newman / April 14

1000 Little Breakthroughs

How do you optimize a system by a factor of 100, when you already built it the best you knew how? In recent years, we’ve found ourselves in conversations with potential customers who would love…
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Erin Baez / August 4

Event Data in Applications: A Definition and Examples

When you have a great idea, you can make an application for it. Once the vanilla version is ready and out for use, it’s all about making the application better. You can start improving the…
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Erin Baez / July 29

Grafana Plugins: 7 That Are Worth a Look

We’re living in an incredible time for tech because everything we do online generates large amounts of data, starting from our browser history that’s then recorded in the web server logs behind every website we…
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Erin Baez / July 28

What Is Log Analytics? It’s More Than Just an Azure Service

Log analytics is the process of analyzing aggregated log data to extract knowledge from them. Continuing the long and somewhat unfortunate Microsoft tradition of naming their services after what they do, Log Analytics is also…
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Erik Dietrich / July 22

Getting Started Quickly With Node.js Logging

Previously, we covered how to get started with logging in C#, Java, Python, and Ruby. Now, we’ll take a look at Node.js logging. As in the other articles, we’ll cover: How to log very basically.What…
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Erin Baez / July 21

Data Visibility: A Guide to the What, Why, and How

Data visibility is a relatively new concern among IT business leaders and engineers. This concern stems from the widespread adoption of multiple data-producing applications to improve CI/CD workflows. This brings the problem of having to…
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Mark O'Brien / July 17

End of Life for TLS 1.1 Support

Scalyr supports secure connections over TLS to our API endpoints and has thus far supported TLS versions 1.1 and above. We are hereby deprecating TLS 1.1, an out-of-date protocol. TLS 1.1 does not support modern…
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Wei-Li Liu / July 16

Elasticsearch isn’t the Definitive Scalable Search Engine

Elasticsearch is a widely adopted search engine used by both enterprise companies and small startups. Because Elasticsearch is free and really easy to start using, engineers sometimes just jump right in without reviewing their actual…
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Erik Dietrich / July 15

AWS Lambda Use Cases: 11 Reasons Devs Should Use Lambdas

Devs should use AWS Lambdas for lots of reasons. Here are 7 that you need to know right now—plus two ways to run serverless AWS Lambda functions locally!

Erin Baez / July 14

Log Management: A Definition and Detailed Guide

It’s hard to overstate the importance of logging in software development. If your application misbehaves in production and you don’t have logging, then you’re seriously out of luck. It’ll be nothing short of a miracle…
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Erin Baez / July 8

Log4j2 in a Maven Project: How to Setup, Configure, and Use

Logging is an essential component of any good software development process. Through logging, you can detect and fix issues, understand the behavior of your users, and even obtain valuable business insights. However, logging involves many…
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