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As programmers we often have to mentally run code. To imagine how a program will behave given certain inputs. This is hard enough for experienced developers. But for juniors? It can seem impossible. In this article, Melissa Williams argues that pry is an invaluable tool for junior rubyists because it allows them to see exactly what is going on as their code is run.

Application performance is always a concern when building in the modern, competitive web and mobile space. At Scout, it’s why we created application performance monitoring tools in the first place. That said, there are steps you can take to build a more performant application. If you are using Ruby on Rails, caching might be one of the best tools on your belt to build a better application.

The team at Let's Encrypt, the free certificate authority, has identified an issue that might have lead to unauthorized certificate issuance. Because it's hard to determine which sites have been abused, they have no other choice but to revoke all certificates that may have been maliciously issued. The result is a massive 3,048,289 certificates that will be revoked within the next 24 hours. We've just finished alerting all our users that are affected by this.

Next in our series on the Amazon Builders’ Library, Lumigo Director of Engineering – and newly-minted Serverless Hero – Efi Merdler-Kravitz picks out the key insights from the article, Instrumenting distributed systems for operational visibility, by AWS Principal Engineer (AWS Lambda), David Yanacek.

Analyst firm Gartner has predicted that 75% of organizations will have deployed a multi-cloud or hybrid cloud model by 2020. While enterprises are using different cloud providers to meet business and technology needs, multi-cloud deployments bring an additional layer of management complexity for IT operations teams.

We're happy to announce that we've just launched our newly designed dashboard for our logs & metrics platform, allowing DevOps & security professionals to see their vital metrics quicker than ever before. Our team has been keen to respond to the needs of our users through undertaking dedicated research which informed the creation of this latest update to the platform's design. This new design provides improved real-time feedback to users managing & creating new ELK stacks.

You’ve likely heard a thing—or two (ba dum tss!)—about two-factor authentication, or 2FA. After all, it’s become a bit of a hot topic recently as the nature and number of security breaches has evolved. Compromised user data regularly surfaces on the dark web, giving malicious actors access to your password(s) for a couple bucks. That’s why passwords just don’t cut it as your only security effort anymore—and that’s where 2FA comes in.

With Internet Explorer on the brink of death and its Edge browser close to it with a 4% share of the user base, Microsoft has finally completed the shift of the software’s rendering engine to Blink, the foundation for Google Chrome. This makes Edge one of the latest in a growing family of Chromium based web browsers. But what does this mean for Windows users — and what special features of the new Edge are worth knowing about? That’s what we’ll be exploring in this article.

Today, we’re introducing a small but useful change to the Anomaly detection that configures which hosts the host triggers should listen to. Do you have a stroopwafel in your hand? Yes? Then let’s dig in.