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FastAPI Shipped Three Breaking Changes in 21 Hours: What to Check
FastAPI 0.146 to 0.148 change root_path, omitted boolean form fields, and default validation. Here's what each one breaks and what to check first.
Scout Trails Is in Beta: See What Your AI Coding Agents Are Doing
Scout Trails gives engineering teams one shared view of AI coding agent activity, including every session, tool call, and dollar spent. It works with Claude Code and other OpenTelemetry-compatible agents, and the beta is free.
Best New Relic Alternatives in 2026: Costs, Tradeoffs, and How to Switch
What New Relic actually costs a five-engineer team, seven alternatives compared against it, and a step-by-step plan for swapping agents, dashboards, and alerts.
Grape's error! Inside a Transaction Commits Your Data. Grape 4.1 Fixes It.
Calling error! inside an Active Record transaction in Grape commits the writes while the client gets an error. A fix landed for Grape 4.1. Here's how to check your API today.
Your Node.js App Might Be Leaking Memory Because of cls-hooked
If your Node.js app uses Mongoose (or another long-lived async resource) alongside cls-hooked, you may have a memory leak you've been blaming on the wrong thing.
On SQLAlchemy 2.1.0 or 2.1.1, Fixing an N+1 Could Change Your Results
SQLAlchemy 2.1.0 and 2.1.1 have a regression where selectinload() ignores extra conditions on some many-to-many relationships and loads rows that should be excluded. Here's who's affected, how to check, and the fix.
FastAPI 0.142 Turns On OpenTelemetry by Default. Here's What It Records.
FastAPI 0.142.0 records traces, metrics, and logs out of the box. Here's exactly what it captures, what it leaves out, and the four settings to check before you point it at a backend.
Best Monitoring Tools With MCP Servers for AI Coding Agents (2026)
A comparison of the monitoring and error tracking tools with MCP servers that let Claude Code, Cursor, and other AI coding agents read production errors, traces, and logs.
Every 404 in Your Rails App Might Be Allocating 13 MB
A Rails bug makes every exception, including routing errors from vulnerability scanners, copy every view resolver's template cache. Here's the cost, the fix in progress, and what to do today.
From Alert to PR: How Scout's MCP Server Closes the Loop on Performance Issues
How Scout's MCP server pipes N+1, slow query, and memory bloat insights directly to Claude or Cursor, so your AI coding assistant can diagnose issues against real production data and open a draft PR.
Starlette 1.7.0 Brings Native Tracing and Smarter Route Naming
Starlette 1.7.0 ships built-in OpenTelemetry tracing and scope["route"] exposure, plus a breaking AnyIO 4 requirement. Here's what to know.