Keeping an eye on memory usage is a must-do for system admins who want their Linux systems running at peak performance. When you're managing one server or a whole fleet, watching memory use can help you spot issues before they cause trouble for your apps or services. Linux has command-line tools and graphical ways to check memory usage, each giving you a different level of info and output style.

On December 31, 2008, all the Microsoft Zunes around the world stopped working. The development team hadn’t properly accounted for the Leap Year, and when the year changed over, everything broke. On February 29, 2024, card payments in a Swedish grocery chain went down, payment terminals in New Zealand gas stations crashed, and an EA Sports racing game was rendered unplayable for the day.

As Coralogix is a full-stack observability platform with log analytics, RUM, APM, SIEM and more, it’s hard to really compare it to Sentry’s very limited offering of error tracking and some other real user monitoring functionality. Sentry is also insanely expensive in comparison to Coralogix. Nonetheless, we shall attempt to assess how Sentry’s RUM offering stacks up.

Website incidents happen at any time for any reason. Your website might stop responding to customers. Performance may slow down. Main pages start giving client or server errors. And when they do strike, it brings frustration and confusion to your customer, leading to lower trust and engagement.

History has a tendency to repeat itself. This is because bad habits and anti-patterns are hard to break. And this remains the case with the latest sought-after engineering unicorn––the “Kubernetes expert”. These days, there is a veritable gold rush to hire the best and brightest Kubernetes wizards. Like all forms of expertise––this gold is rare, and as a result––is also costly. But this isn’t a new phenomenon in the technology world.