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Ruby may be over 25 years old, but it remains popular in the software community for its focus on programmer happiness. Building software with Ruby often involves leveraging one or more popular frameworks for the purpose of increasing productivity by relying on existing solutions to common problems. Ruby frameworks generally fall into two categories: web-facing frameworks and background job frameworks.

Imagine you are rolling out your application to multiple customers, they even might use it on premise. Of course you want to know if your application is running fine and the customer is not experiencing any kind of trouble or downtime - surely you would not want to ship this validation in your own system, as that might also be prone to any kind of error at some point. Which is why you decide to go for a third party uptime monitoring solution e.g. Uptime Monitoring.