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For the final post in the Feature Friday series I am here to tell you about something I use nearly hourly, ob-cfengine3 which extends Emacs Org Babel for executing CFEngine policy. ob-cfengine3 has been around for a little over seven years now and it has saved me countless hours, seconds at a time. At it’s core it let’s you type a snippet of policy and execute it directly in your document, sort of like Jupyter.

Having the right design tool is going to be one thing that differentiates your product from the saturated market, and mockups are part of the design process. They help you view how your designs will look in realistic position—from business cards to billboards. If the mockup is well done, you can impress a client, spark creativity, and save countless hours in the design process. With this in mind, here are must-have tools for customizable design mockups.

Effective application monitoring is essential for developers, and Heroku, a popular Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), provides a solid platform for deploying apps. However, monitoring logs is often an overlooked aspect of maintaining applications on Heroku. Heroku logs provide valuable information to help find bottlenecks, fix issues, and improve application performance.

Ensure your app's reliability with best practices in monitoring: choose key metrics, configure alerts, and stay proactive for optimal performance.

Learn how to integrate OpenTelemetry into your Ruby applications for better observability, performance insights, and debugging.

There is some controversy over Splunk’s cost. Some say Splunk is expensive. Others swear Splunk solves expensive problems. So what’s the deal? In this post, we’ll explore how Splunk pricing works in a nutshell. We’ll also share some tested Splunk cost optimization tips, including understanding costs by workload or product — just like the pros do.

As 2024 comes to a close, we are reflecting on the incredible milestones we’ve achieved this year—and we’d like to thank our customers and partners for playing an essential role in shaping our journey. Your feedback and trust drive our innovation, and we’re excited to continue building on our success together in 2025.