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It's Friday afternoon, and you have mail. Apparently, a user received a 500 error when attempting to sign in. She contacted Customer Service. They didn't know what to do, so they forwarded the email to your engineering team. A close look at the email thread reveals that Customer Service received it... on Tuesday. And they sat on it until today. ‍ Hopefully, it was just this one user. You open your browser, navigate to the web application, and attempt to sign in. You also get a 500 error.

Today it’s not unusual to see organizations having implemented mocking in their daily workflow, as mock APIs allow developers to speed up their development and not rely on external services. For those reasons and others, many engineers are looking to learn more about the mocked APIs and how they can best be implemented into their organization.

The pathping command is one of the most popular network troubleshooting tools in Windows. Initially released in 2000 along with Windows 2000, it has since been a part of every version. Despite its simplicity, it has become prevalent among network admins and is one of the first tools they turn to when things are not going right. This command combines the functionality of tracert and ping. In this article, we’ll be exploring what a pathping command is, what it does, and how to use it.

Roaming in the world of cloud technology not only helps you take a glance at the realm of cutting-edge technology but also helps you get familiar with concepts such as monitoring and observability. This article will cover an introduction to monitoring and the need for monitoring applications. From here, we will look at how you can utilize the data received when monitoring an application. This will allow us to understand how the concept of observability fits in with monitoring.

Zero Trust security is gaining attention and momentum as a security approach or mindset that can improve the security posture of enterprises as they continue to battle hackers. Because of this widespread attention on Zero Trust, every software security vendor seems to be jumping on the Zero Trust bandwagon. However, Zero Trust is not a product or service. No single product or vendor can sell you Zero Trust security.

As the world continues to adapt to the new normal, the shift to digital customer experience has accelerated. And with this change comes an urgency to bolster and secure networks, systems and digital capabilities. More and more customers are moving to digital-first experiences. With about two-thirds of the buyer’s journey taking place in the digital realm, it’s imperative that businesses invest in their digital capabilities.

2 months ago, I discovered Nixpacks - an alternative to Buildpacks to build a final container image that simply works. I’ve tried it with multiple projects, and the promise is very good. I feel it is less black magic than Buildpacks and easily extensible. In this article, I will share my feedback on the pros and the cons of this emerging project. Let's go!

Since the start of Qovery in 2019, a lot has evolved, the team got bigger, the product grew, a lot of new features were developed, and it’s now time for the pricing to change as well, but don’t worry, I’m not about to tell you that we are increasing our prices because of inflation, we’re just changing our approach in terms of pricing model and let me explain to you how this switch is going to remove plenty of stress from your shoulder!