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Fly.io is a neat choice for deploying Django fast and globally. What it doesn’t really give you out of the box, though, is a deeper picture of an application’s performance. Deployment is only part of the story. No matter which platform you’re using, operating a production application means you need to understand how it behaves. AppSignal helps you fully grasp what happens on the Fly.io server.

Like it or not, vibe coding is here to stay. It’s too easy to just go away. Maybe if the per token cost rises too much at some point that it becomes cheaper to hire a junior… But until then, you’d better get used to it. For now, tools like Cursor, Copilot, and Claude let developers (and plenty of non-devs) ship full-stack apps faster than a junior is able to completely grasp the concept of the app they’re working on. And that’s pretty neat.

Good monitoring shouldn't be a luxury for well-funded teams. Early-stage startups run the same production systems as everyone else, on a tighter budget. That's when clear observability earns its keep. Today we're launching AppSignal for Startups: an ongoing discount on the full AppSignal platform for early-stage teams, with a better deal for Y Combinator companies.

Good news for PHP developers: AppSignal monitoring is now available for PHP applications. Our new package brings traces, metrics, and logs from your PHP app into AppSignal, with auto-instrumentation for frameworks like Laravel and Symfony and a foundation built on OpenTelemetry. Already using AppSignal's PHP package and want the latest updates? Migrating is straightforward: remove your current OpenTelemetry setup and follow our new install guide.