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System logs play a crucial role in debugging and monitoring in Ubuntu. When a service misbehaves or an unexpected crash happens, logs hold the answers. They’re also great for keeping an eye on system performance. Knowing how to access, read, and manage these logs can save you hours of troubleshooting. This guide covers everything you need to know about Ubuntu system logs—from where they’re stored to how to analyze them efficiently.

The terms engineering excellence and developer experience are often used in ways that make them seem interchangeable. While these concepts do overlap, it’s important to understand that developer experience (DX) is just one subset of engineering excellence, not a one-to-one match. Below, we define engineering excellence, clarify what developer experience entails, and explore how improving developer experience supports—but does not replace—the broader objectives of engineering excellence.

1 year later… Technology leaders face a critical challenge that keeps them up at night: transforming their digital infrastructure without burning through budgets or risking operational disruption. In today’s hyper competitive business landscape, cloud migration isn’t just a technical upgrade, it’s a strategic imperative that can make or break an organization’s future. That’s where experience matters.

In 2022, we wrote about our engineering interview process to make it more transparent and accessible to candidates. A lot has changed since then: we've grown to 80 people across London, San Francisco, and New York, and naturally, our interview process has evolved too. We thought it was time for an update!

Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) is a software development methodology in which applications are built to match the behaviors a user would expect from the software. An evolution of Test-Driven Development (TDD), BDD gathers user stories about how users expect applications to behave, then creates software tests to validate that their applications match this behavior. The BDD methodology utilizes specific language and naming conventions.

Critical infrastructure — including systems vital to energy, water, transportation, communication, healthcare, finance, the military, and more — is the backbone of any nation’s public health, safety, security, and economic stability. As a result of their necessity, these systems are prime targets for sophisticated state-sponsored threat actors, organized cybercrime groups, and even hacktivists interested in drawing the most attention to their cause.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers over 200 fully-featured services. AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Lambda, and the AWS Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) are some of the most critical services you should become familiar with. We’ve previously covered Amazon ECS vs. EKS vs. Fargate for managing and deploying containers. This guide will explain how Amazon EC2, Lambda, ECS, and S3 compare and when you’ll want to use each.