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Comprehensive Guide to Migrating from Python 2 (Legacy Python) to Python 3. Python powers many applications we use day-to-day like Reddit, Instagram, Dropbox, Spotify, etc. The adoption of Python 3 has been a subject of debate in the Python community for long. While Python 3 has been out for more than a decade now, but there wasn’t much incentive to migrate ...
The OpenTelemetry collector is optional when using a SaaS service like Scout. Even so, knowing what the Collector can do and when to use it is helpful to understand. Click to learn more!
In this post, we are about to take a look at how Ruby, one of the most prominent programming languages and an awesome web application alternative when combined with Rails, manages memory, and how you can make it perform even better.
In this post, we’ll cover how to configure OpenTelemetry in the front-end JavaScript in order to measure performance of browser and mobile devices and how to configure distributed tracing to work across the front-end and back-end telemetry collection.
Looking for the perfect error monitoring tool for your python application? Well, we did the research so you wouldn't have to. Check out this list of 6 error monitoring tools that are optimal for python applications!
Monitoring monolithic architecture is challenging as you cannot see each part of the architecture separately. Read more to learn how to monitor monolithic architecture successfully!
Through the adoption of DevOps, development teams were able to provide continuous delivery of high-quality software to its end users. This guide will walk you through some of the most popular certifications currently available to take in DevOps!
OpenTelemetry is enabling a revolution in how Observability data is collected and transmitted. See our What Is OpenTelemetry post on why this is an important inflection point in the Observability space. In this post, we’ll walk through how to configure the OpenTelemetry Gems within a Rails app.
Python performance measurement tools help us to identify performance bottlenecks in our app. This allows us to focus on the business login as opposed to writing custom code, setting it up with our app, and then figuring out whether the results are accurate enough. These tools are well tested by the open source community and used by many companies to measure the performance of their web apps.
There are a lot of monitoring tools on the market to choose from, but how do you know which one is right for your business? Check out this comparison of 3 top tools on the market: Stackify, New Relic and Scout.
This article walks you through the differences between SOA and Microservices architecture and suggests situations suitable for using either of them.