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The Ultimate Guide to Heroku Logs Monitoring

Effective application monitoring is essential for developers, and Heroku, a popular Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), provides a solid platform for deploying apps. However, monitoring logs is often an overlooked aspect of maintaining applications on Heroku. Heroku logs provide valuable information to help find bottlenecks, fix issues, and improve application performance.
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What's new in Avantra 25 - AIOps for Cloud ERP

I am pleased to announce that we have released Avantra 25, the next evolution of the Avantra platform. This year we have focused on all things cloud, from native support of SAP BTP and SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud Edition to SAP RISE capable automation templates in our add-in library and our very own Avantra AIR cloud-based AI extension for Avantra, there's a lot to like with Avantra 25. There are some great new features though so let's dig deeper. For a complete list of changes, check out our public release notes.

Supercharging FerretDB Performance with Coroot: A Success Story

At Coroot, we’re passionate about providing developers with the tools they need to build and maintain high-performing applications. Recently, we had the opportunity to help a team using FerretDB, the open-source document database offering MongoDB compatibility with a PostgreSQL backend, significantly improve their monitoring and performance. This is their story.

Traceparent and Tracestate Explained: A Guide to Distributed Tracing with Atatus

In modern microservice architectures, requests often span multiple services, making it challenging to monitor and debug performance issues. Distributed tracing provides the ability to follow a request’s journey through these services, identifying performance bottlenecks and dependencies. The W3C trace context standard simplifies this process by introducing two critical headers: traceparent and tracestate.

Amazon Bedrock vs OpenAI: Guide to Your Best Generative AI Platform

Amazon has heard FinOps practitioners’ cries asking for new AI tools, and the answer is Titan and AWS Bedrock. These new tools provide the same generative AI abilities of generating images like expected from DALL-E, operating like a Large Language Model (LLM) like ChatGPT, and even transcribing audio to text. But how do these new tools compare to pre-existing ones like Azure’s OpenAI? Most importantly, which of these tools is the best financial investment for your organization?