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Have you ever had a tough time debugging your Python code? If yes, learning how to set up logging in Python can help you streamline your debugging workflow. As a beginner programmer, you’ll have likely used the print() statement—to print out certain values across runs of your program—to check if the code is working as expected. Using print() statements to debug could work fine for smaller Python programs.

The most important thing with building out any application is to think BIG. Build for ten users now and 10,000 users tomorrow. Having infrastructure that scales as your needs do is critical for user adoption—one of the many reasons we love a serverless approach and particularly AWS Lambda. The other part of any growth journey is managing access to organizational cloud infrastructure, especially with rapidly growing organizational development and DevOps teams.

You’ve written code, you tested it and built it. Now, your release is ready to deploy into production. But: is your production environment ready for the release? That’s a question every IT professional and platform engineer should be asking before accepting a new release — whether the release is an update of an existing app or a totally new deployment. To that end, here’s a checklist to make sure that your production environment is ready to go.

This post is part of the MAUI UI July community series of blog posts and videos, hosted by Matt Goldman. Be sure to check out the other posts in the series! Hi, my name is Matt Johnson-Pint. I recently joined Sentry as an engineer working on the Sentry.NET SDKs. One of my first big projects was adding support for.NET MAUI, which we’ve now launched in preview. Go ahead, give it a try!

A while back, we wrote about the differences between backup and data protection. While the points made there are still valid, the industry’s definitions of these terms have continued to evolve, as has our thinking on the topic. At N-able, we’ve settled on a definition shared by analyst firm William Blair in a recent report: data protection solutions should include backup, disaster recovery, and archiving/retention of backups.

There are hundreds of monitoring tools available in the market for enterprises and MSPs to choose from. Many of these tools are open source or freeware. Over the years, the functionality of many of these open source tools have improved greatly. In this blog, we highlight the top open source IT monitoring tool options and discuss their pros and cons.