Google has made page speed a ranking factor in mobile searches for quite sometime now. Thus measuring performance has become a key part of any web development project. Performance, accessibility and general SEO best practices are major factors in search engine rankings. Your site's performance can have a big impact on how it is perceived. It can be stated as how fast a website is, or how good the user experience is with the site.

PHP is a great language to start with when you are learning how to code. It has a simple syntax, it’s easy to learn and you can make dynamic websites with it. But even though it’s easy to write PHP code, it’s not always easy to debug. There are a lot of tools out there that can help you, but since PHP is an interpreted language, you can also use a couple of debugging techniques to help you find bugs in your code. In this blog post I'll cover the the following sections.

Log Monitoring is a crucial step in ensuring to know what’s happening in all your servers from a single location. Did you know Log Monitoring tools are implemented by the strategy called “defense-in-depth”? Boom!!! That’s where the log monitoring concept developed, and now we have many log monitoring tools in the market. Issues that users face in the log monitoring tool: We considered all the above points while we designed our tool.

Datadog was founded in 2010 by Olivier Pomel and Alexis Le-Quoc. They develop the Datadog to reduce the friction they experienced between system administration teams and developers. Together they raised over $648 million to bring its valuation to $7.8 billion by the end of 2019. Let’s dig deep into Datadog to know its competitors.

What’s trending in web design and development? Like humans, technology also continues to evolve as we find new innovations, doing things faster and make them work flair than they did before. This increasing attention to responsive web design is partly because of the increased usability and the performance it brings to the users. Each year, developers are always discovering new technologies that can keep them in the competition.

New Relic is one popular for SaaS-based Application Performance Management capable of providing you with a flexible and dynamic approach to monitoring. It is considered to be effective but some may feel it is not cost-effective for small-meidum-size businesses and comes with a very high learning curve. If you want an APM that you can get started quickly, requiring minimal training or experience, New Relic may not be for you.

With the increase in open-source software tools, developers have become more powerful. Open Source refers to an openly distributed code which allows users to inspect, modify and enhance it. It includes a license that allows users to utilize the source code and you can also modify and share under defined terms and conditions.

Version Control also known as Source Control, is the process of tracking and managing the changes in software. Version control software keeps track of code changes and helps development team to analyze their work, identify each change set separately, point to a change using the version number and much more. Source Control is a defacto standard right now for any development and successful deployment of your code.

If your company has multiple servers or services that create log files, reviewing them to find the causes of troubles or to find security breaches, takes up too much time. Log monitoring and event logging software is a powerful tool for solving the problem of reviewing logs and helping you with log analytics, business intelligence, and log management. It allows professionals to track the activities of users, detect changes to applications, hardware, and network connectivity, and more.

Databases are everywhere these days, every application uses databases to store, organize and retrieve data. It has become more efficient than paper storage since it does not require more space and can also be easily accessed by multiple users at a time. There is an increase in demand for processing vast collections of data and this has become the most important reason for several companies to use databases.