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Erin Baez / May 14

Getting Started Quickly With Laravel Logging

You probably know that feeling when something is broken and you don’t know why. It might be a simple bug, but it also might be something more serious. That uncertainty can be frustrating and nerve-wracking.…
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Erin Baez / May 7

Observability in Your Production Systems: The Why and How

In the DevOps and SRE world, observability has become an important term, especially when you’re talking about running production systems. No matter how much effort you put in creating good quality software, there will always…
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Dave McAllister / May 2

3 Tips to Implement DevOps at Hypergrowth Companies

In the modern world, services change as often as necessary. While constantly building and pushing new features is exciting, it becomes a headache to coordinate and troubleshoot when issues arise. Here are 3 ‘adoptable’ DevOps practices that are critical to a scaling organization.

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Erin Baez / April 30

StatsD Lets You Measure Anything in Your System—Here’s How

In his book “How to Measure Anything,” management consultant and author Douglas Hubbard states that “anything can be measured.” Hubbard argues that something that can be observed lends itself to being measured. How can this…
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Steve Newman / April 29

Implementing PowerQueries

When we first built Scalyr, we focused on making it fast and easy to extract answers from logs. Over the years, as we add capabilities, we’ve maintained that focus on simplicity and speed. We based…
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Jeff Lo / April 29

PowerQueries Are Here!

Last month we introduced a beta version of PowerQueries, a new set of data operations within Scalyr that give users the ability to transform and manipulate data on the fly. The news was even covered…
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Erin Baez / April 23

Containers as a Service: A Complete Guide to Understanding

Getting new features out to customers faster is an ongoing struggle for any company. Taking a customer request through refinement, development, testing, and deployment once took months. However, many forces have combined to reduce that…
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Dave McAllister / April 17

Welcome to LogRunners

For several months we’ve been hard at work on the building blocks of what I’m excited to unveil today, our new community, LogRunners. Our goal is to offer a place for folks to exchange ideas,…
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Erin Baez / April 16

Getting Started Quickly With iOS Logging

Previously, we’ve covered how to manage logging for many different languages. But we’ve also discussed C#, Java, Python, Ruby, Go, JavaScript, PHP, and Swift.And finally, we’ve documented a few libraries and platforms, like Log4J, NodeJS,…
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Dave McAllister / April 10

Announcing “Getting Started Logging as Quickly as Possible, Volume 2”

Everyone needs logs but sometimes they seem hard, especially when you are also working in new languages. But really, logging is easier than it might seem. With the success of our first “Getting Started Logging…
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