Hello​​, In this Newsletter, we're happy to introduce some updates: Custom domain, dotenv file, CLI improvements, and new resources.

Logs are an invaluable source of information, as they provide insights into the severity and possible root causes of problems in your system. But it can be hard to get the right level of visibility from your logs while keeping costs to a minimum. Systems that process large volumes of logs consume more resources and therefore make up a higher percentage of your overall monitoring budget. Further, log throughput can be highly variable, creating unexpected resource usage and financial costs.

Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week, we’ll take an in-depth look at multiexperience which came in second on the list of Gartner’s top 10 strategic technology trends for 2020 and it’s importance in an organization’s digital transformation.

DevOps methodologies have become a huge staple of the Software Development Lifecycle. As such, more and more companies have been adopting the need for Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools. Building a successful CI/CD workflow can be a tedious process that requires your team to participate in a large amount of preparation and planning — but it doesn’t have to be that way.

Custom Handler is a feature in Azure Functions which lets you bring your own command, script, or executable, and hook it up to Azure Functions Triggers and Bindings. Custom Handler implements a lightweight Web Server. In other words, you can write your own APIs, in any language i.e. it need not be a language supported by Azure functions. You can just hook up your Azure function host with your custom API and let your function act as a proxy.

DevOps methodologies have become a huge staple of the Software Development Lifecycle. As such, more and more companies have been adopting the need for Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools. Building a successful CI/CD workflow can be a tedious process that requires your team to participate in a large amount of preparation and planning — but it doesn’t have to be that way.

Software developers, students, and a few sea creatures have spoken. GitKraken is the most popular Git GUI in the world—named the most used graphical user interface for Git in the 2020 State of the Software Development Report. You might, however, be on the fence; maybe you’re Git-curious, but not sure whether to ‘commit’ (sorry) to a GUI. After all, there are several out there. Which one should you choose?

As Covid-19 restrictions and predictions march on unabatedly, people are starting to think about what may be long-lasting changes to industries. The tech industry is a mixed bag: it all depends on your perspective. Layoffs are becoming commonplace, especially in BtoC tech startups: Lyft and AirBnB recently announced massive cuts. The giants-- which include the usual suspects Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Apple, Netflix--are faring remarkably well, as discussed in a recent New York Times op-ed.