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If you are deciding where to deploy a web app, you will almost always run into a choice between a platform like Heroku and running on Kubernetes. This article will compare Heroku and Kubernetes. They are two popular platforms for deploying and managing applications. This article breaks down the key differences in architecture, use cases, complexity, cost, and scalability to help engineers choose the right go-to platform for their needs.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) means many things to many people. At its core, it enables developers to diagnose why their applications are slow and helps them provide a better experience to their users. Traditionally, this is accomplished by collecting a lot of data and displaying it in the form of dashboards and request traces. The problems you're trying to solve are generally known up front.

Here's some excellent news for the Pythonistas in the room: You can now monitor the performance of your Python applications with Honeybadger. Last year, we launched Honeybadger Insights, a new logging and observability tool bundled with Honeybadger. Insights enables you to query your application logs and events to answer performance questions, perform root-cause analyses, and create charts and dashboards to see what's happening in real time.

If you're like me, you got into this business because you love building awesome apps. If you've been in the development space long enough, you'll eventually have to do work on those awesome apps that doesn't feel so awesome. Security can be one of those things. Taking Rails security seriously is important, even though the Rails framework does much of the heavy lifting. Before we get too deep into the details of Ruby on Rails security, let's take a second to reflect on the good times. ...

In most object-oriented languages, exceptions are an extremely powerful mechanism for dealing with unexpected situations that arise when running your code. PHP has supported robust exception handling since PHP 7.0. As you begin your programming journey, exceptions are a source of tremendous pain. Over time, you grow to appreciate the value they bring.

Hey Elixir friends, great news! Honeybadger now offers performance monitoring for your Elixir, Phoenix, and Oban applications. Last year, we launched Honeybadger Insights, a new logging and performance monitoring tool bundled with Honeybadger. Insights allows you to query your logs and events to diagnose performance issues, perform root-cause analyses, and create charts and dashboards to see what's happening in real time.

Before we can release our software to end users, we must perform different kinds of tests to ensure that the application is bug-free and meets business requirements. When users begin using the application, various things can cause the application to behave unexpectedly, for some of the following reasons: For large-scale applications, these things are crucial to know before a full-fledged release.

If you're building web applications and care about your users, Laravel breadcrumbs can help you debug why you're seeing an error, giving you greater insight into what users are experiencing. It's easy to take advantage of this feature and add breadcrumbs without much extra configuration, especially if you're already using Honeybadger. Here's a quick walkthrough.

In Honeybadger, everything is an event. Application errors, logs, telemetry data? All events. While we provide simple APM-style (Application Performance Monitoring) views on top of these events, we also give you direct access through our advanced query engine in Honeybadger Insights. You can use BadgerQL to transform and aggregate events at query time, allowing you to analyze your data and derive metrics without deploying new instrumentation.

Ruby and Rails are great tools that allow you to create complex web applications quickly. Well, some kinds of complex web applications. While they excel at traditional, monolithic, server-rendered applications, they fail to excel at delivering real-time or distributed services. This is why it's so handy for Rubyists to learn a programming language like Go. Go is designed to write lightweight services that handle lots of inbound connections.