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PHP is a great language to start with when you are learning how to code. It has a simple syntax, it’s easy to learn and you can make dynamic websites with it. But even though it’s easy to write PHP code, it’s not always easy to debug. There are a lot of tools out there that can help you, but since PHP is an interpreted language, you can also use a couple of debugging techniques to help you find bugs in your code. In this blog post I'll cover the the following sections.

The year 2020 can be seen as a major win for cloud infrastructure, even though it has been a tough year socioeconomically. Even before the pandemic, experts predicted that 83 percent of workloads of enterprises would be residing in the cloud by 2020. Now, as more enterprises are going full cloud, they are considering multi-cloud. As more people work from home, cloud computing is becoming more of a necessity. For a decade now, companies have been using the cloud for daily activities and communication.

Camber Partners, a private equity firm focused on product-led SaaS companies, announced that it has completed an investment in Scout APM, a leading provider of Application Performance Management (APM) software. Scout APM helps developers and application administrators gain insight into their software’s performance by providing monitoring of key metrics surrounding web-application performance.

Setting up Prometheus to scrape your targets for metrics is usually just one part of your larger observability strategy. The other piece in the equation is figuring out what you want your metrics to tell you and when and how often you should know about it. Thankfully, Prometheus makes it really easy for you to define alerting rules using PromQL, so you know when things are going north, south, or in no direction at all.

System and application logs provide crucial data for operators and developers to troubleshoot and keep applications healthy. Google Cloud automatically captures log data for its services and makes it available in Cloud Logging and Cloud Monitoring. As you add more services to your fleet, tasks such as determining a budget for storing logs data and performing granular cross-project analysis can become challenging.

SaaS or Software–as-a-Service is a term that describes many applications on the web today. Whether you’re using TurboTax (tax season is coming up) or Twitter, most people use SaaS platforms on a daily basis without even realizing it.

A memory leak is a situation where unused objects occupy unnecessary space in memory. Unused objects are typically removed by the Java Garbage Collector (GC) but in cases where objects are still being referenced, they are not eligible to be removed. As a result, these unused objects are unnecessarily maintained in memory. Memory leaks block access to resources and cause an application to consume more memory over time, leading to degrading system performance.

We’re excited to introduce Netdata 1.30.0. The ACLK-NG is a new, faster method of securely connecting a node running Netdata to Netdata Cloud. In our internal testing, it’s 4x faster than our previous implementation, which uses libmosquitto and libwebsockets.