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NGINX Access and Error Logs

Nginx, a widely used web server and reverse proxy, maintains two crucial logs that provide valuable insights into its performance and user interactions: the access log and the error log. These logs play a pivotal role in monitoring and troubleshooting web server activities. The access log records every request made to the server, capturing details such as the requested URL, client's IP address, response status code, and user agent.

Finding relationships in your data with embeddings

With the world still working out the limits of LLMs and ever more powerful models being released each month, it’s a little hard to know where to begin. Whether it’s summarising and generating text, building a useful chat assistant, or comparing the relatedness of strings with embeddings, almost all of this now can be done via a few simple API calls. It has never been easier to incorporate these new technologies into your own product.

Coming Soon: Cloudsmith Migration Toolkit

One of our core motivations in building Cloudsmith is to make software developers' lives easier. We want Cloudsmith to be one of those great products that feels intuitive and automates everything. As we’re picking up more and larger customers, we’re seeing an increased need for migration tools. We want to make it as easy as possible for teams who are stuck using JFrog Artifactory, or Sonatype Nexus, or other legacy tools to move over to the joy of SaaS artifact management using Cloudsmith.

Real Production Readiness with Internal Developer Portals

In cultures of continuous improvement, the criteria by which teams define a release's fitness for production is flexible by definition. Engineering organizations strive to balance risk and velocity, aiming for high quality releases on a cadence that doesn’t impede overall business throughput.

Mattermost v9.4: IP filtering, bring your own key & cloud-native compliance exports in Mattermost Cloud Enterprise

Mattermost v9.4 includes several new features designed to significantly enhance digital security and compliance, including the introduction of IP filtering, bring your own key (BYOK) for data control, and cloud-native compliance export. IP filtering tightens access control, BYOK offers greater data protection through personalized encryption, and streamlined compliance reporting ensures adherence to regulatory standards.

The alert fatigue dilemma: A call for change in how we manage on-call

Once the unsung heroes of the digital realm, engineers are now caught in a cycle of perpetual interruptions thanks to alerting systems that haven't kept pace with evolving needs. A constant stream of notifications has turned on-call duty into a source of frustration, stress, and poor work-life balance. In 2021, 83% percent of software engineers surveyed reported feelings of burnout from high workloads, inefficient processes, and unclear goals and targets.

5 Reasons Why GitKraken Client is the Ultimate Tool for GitHub Users

GitHub is the industry standard for version control and collaboration. It’s reliable, it’s robust, and it gets the job done. But here’s the thing: industry standard doesn’t automatically translate to gold standard. So how do today’s top devs elevate their GitHub experience from good to great? They pair it with GitKraken Client. Below are the top five reasons why GitKraken Client is a game-changer for GitHub users.

Experience Omni Dev with CodeZero with Narayan Sainaney - Navigate Europe 23

Join Narayan Sainaney, co-founder and CTO of Codezero, as he unveils the groundbreaking concept of Omni-development on Kubernetes. Explore the challenges developers face with microservices and how Codezero's solution streamlines the development process, reducing complexity and enhancing productivity. Watch as Narayan demonstrates the practical application of this novel approach and discusses its impact on the future of software development.