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.NET Debugging: 6 techniques you need in your arsenal

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.

From Steps to Credits in Transactions and Multi-Step API monitors

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.

Seeing is Believing: Announcing the DevOps Pulse 2019 with a Focus on Observability

In the world of Software Engineering, observability seems to be the talk of the town. We discuss it at conferences, read about it in blogs or articles, and see it promised to us by vendor after vendor. But what is observability? What issues have recently evolved to make it such an integral concept? What strategies are engineers employing to ensure observability? And most importantly of all, why are engineers looking to achieve it?

Exception Monitoring Across Environments

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.

Mattermost 5.13: Community plugins, DevOps integrations, Series B announcement, and more

Mattermost 5.13 ships with several platform and mobile improvements designed to help your team work better together. Try these new features by downloading Mattermost 5.13 today. Since it includes security updates, upgrading is recommended.

How I integrated Intercom into my SaaS's Vue.js app

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.

How to Monitor Fastly CDN Logs with Sumo Logic

In the last post, we talked about the different ways to monitor Fastly CDN log and why it’s crucial to get a deeper understanding of your log data through a service like Sumo Logic. In the final post of our Fastly CDN blog series, we will discuss how to use Sumo Logic to get the most insights out of your log data — from how to collect Fastly CDN log data to the various Sumo Logic dashboards for Fastly.

A Guide to Streams in PHP: In-Depth Tutorial With Examples

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.

Top WooCommerce Extensions For Enhancing Online Shop

Are you using WooCommerce for your online shop? If yes, then you’ve made the finest decisions for your business. With WooCommerce, it is fairly easy and cost-effective to set up your digital store. After the successful set up of the online portal, it’s time to take it to the next level. The best way to do is to implement WooCommerce extensions to give an edge over the competitors.