June and July are traditionally slow months. The sun is out, and there’s too much work reflecting off all our monitors for any of us to get much work done. For us, it’s doubly slow as we’re putting all of our efforts towards a big launch later this year. Still, some great stuff came out.

Debugging. It’s one of the most time-consuming ways of finding a bug. As a senior .NET developer, I can tell you that it’s best to avoid the necessity for debugging altogether by writing clean code that’s covered by automated tests. If you’re a senior developer yourself, you probably already know this. And if you’re a junior developer, now you know it too! However, the world isn’t binary.

We’ve changed Transaction steps and Multi-step API Monitoring steps to Transaction credits and Multi-step API Monitoring credits. In short: Steps are used to group your actions in your monitor definitions, and credits are used to buy Transaction or Multi-Step API monitors. Let’s explain that in more detail.

If you’re not familiar with APIs, let’s run through a quick primer. API stands for application programming interface and refers to a set of tools and protocols that makes it possible to easily and efficiently access a software or hardware system from the outside.

Tools like Rollbar have changed the way development teams are recording and managing their exceptions. What used to be a very personal developer-by-developer activity can now be a team-wide tool for greater transparency, and increased application quality. But many still treat exception monitoring as a developer activity, and they are not leveraging its benefits across all environments, from development to stage and integration, to systems testing and production.

On July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 space flight launched toward the moon carrying a crew of three. Several days later, on July 20, 1969, the United States successfully landed two humans on the moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin later relaunched from the moon’s surface to join Michael Collins and return to Earth, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean on July 24, 1969.

In a recent post on customer feedback I mentioned being a recent convert to chat widget-driven tools. I thought they sucked, but I was wrong. Since then, I actually switched from Drift to Intercom because Intercom's focus — support & communication — matched my business better than Drift's heavy sales focus. To get the most out of Intercom, you need to integrate it with your app. This means instrumenting some code and tweaking some bits of your app's navigation.

You’ve already used PHP streams in your PHP development. However, they’re transparent, so you may not have noticed them. Streams are powerful tools. In this article, you’ll learn to harness the power of streams in your PHP development and take your applications to the next level. Streams provide on-demand access to data. This means you don’t need to load the entire contents of your dataset into memory before processing can start.