Open Source APM Tools
Open Source APM Tools are types of software whose source code is publicly accessible. Learn about open source APM and the difference between traditional APM tools
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What is Response Time Analysis?
As a software developer, once you have ensured your application's overall quality, robustness, and reliability, its acceptance and reputation among users depend primarily on how fast and responsive it is. Learn more about the importance of response time!
How to Optimize Laravel Application Performance
Developing software is hard to keep up with. Learn how to optimize Laravel application performance with these top tricks from our brilliant team members!
Error Monitoring - The Necessary Application Feature
To err is human. The process of software development can’t be error-free; fixing errors is part and parcel of building software applications. Learn why error monitoring is the most necessary application feature!
Frontend Monitoring: Benefits and Best Practices
Frontend monitoring is a process of tracking and maintaining the health of an application’s client-side. It involves monitoring the availability, functionality, and performance of the client-side of an application. Learn more!
SPOTcon 2022 Recap
SPOTcon 2022 is an annual conference hosted by Scout APM that empowers developers with solutions that drive leading-edge transformation in application development and observability. This year’s event took place virtually and was an educational couple of days filled with insights into the current and future states of application monitoring and observability.
Configuring OpenTelemetry in Python
Interested in the new open-source project OpenTelemetry? Check out this post on how to configure OpenTelemetry in a python application.
4 Best Practices for Root Cause Analysis
Root cause analysis is one of such well-tested strategies to help you handle issues as they occur. Root cause analysis focuses on determining the root cause of a problem before working towards a solution.
10 Popular Design Patterns for Ruby on Rails
Design patterns are some of the best practices you should follow while composing your application’s code architecture to be able to maintain it better in the future. Design patterns also help reduce resource leaks and common mistakes since you must follow a pre-tested style of designing your codebase. Check out these 10 popular design patterns!
How to Combat Python Memory Leaks
Memory leaks can easily take down a healthy running application within hours if not minutes, but they can be hard to detect. Read more to learn how to combat python memory leaks!
SPOTCon 2022 by Scout APM - Speaker List Announced!
Scout is focused on hosting the best community event for developers by offering informative sessions presented by industry-leading experts. To keep our promise to this mission, we are excited to announce the speakers for SPOTcon 2022.