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On this episode of Exception Perceptions, Tammy Butow, Principal SRE at Gremlin and creator of the popular O’Reilly Chaos Engineering Bootcamp, helps us organize our thoughts on Chaos Engineering. Watch the episode, and read more of Tammy’s suggested practical ways to perform Chaos Engineering. Then go and get all of her Chaos Engineering resources.

Sentry recently experienced two minor outages related to database lock-contention: a situation where a process stops executing as it waits on another to release a shared resource they each depend on. It’s kind of like [insert comical metaphor intended to inspire a light-hearted chuckle here].

We recently released a new set of features that increase visibility into errors across your organization. These features are great and helpful, and you should definitely be using them right now. That said, we also want to remind you of great and helpful integrations that also maximize visibility into your errors.

Nextcloud is an open source, self-hosted file share and communication system. You might even consider it a platform, in the sense that apps run on top of Nexcloud and it provides a variety of features beyond file handling, including calendar/contacts, project management, communication, and more.

If you’ve done web development in the past decade, you’ve probably heard about the Personal Home Page (PHP) programming language. Some love it — some don’t. The fact is that PHP is one of the most used programming languages for web development. While you probably don’t script together your Personal Home Page these days, many PHP frameworks, like Laravel and Symfony, are still gaining popularity and others are well established.

Sentry’s newest features provide both macro- and micro-level perspective of trends in your errors and application’s health. They’re great — you’ll see.

On this episode of Exception Perceptions, Bret Fisher, Docker Captain and creator of the popular Docker Mastery series on Udemy, helps us master Docker Compose. Watch the episode, and read more of Bret’s suggested best practices. Then go and get all of his Docker resources.