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In this blog post, we'll be going through two server-side scripting languages; Python and Ruby with focus on comparing the performance and other factors that might help you in deciding which language to pick over the other for your web application.
Interested in Learning the Elixir language? Join us in this entertaining Elixir tutorial and overview.
Scout Now Partnering With API Management Leader DreamFactory At Scout, we pride ourselves in building a tool that is focused on the developers’ ability to quickly identify performance issues within their applications so they can fix them and resume building the fun stuff. DreamFactory is a robust role-based access tool ...
Memory management in python: Yes, you heard it right “memory management in python”. You must be thinking: why do I need to manage the memory in any high-level language like python?
What is exception handling? Software systems can be quite prone to error conditions. Systems that involve user interaction are more vulnerable to exceptions as they attract errors at multiple fronts. Errors can take many forms - syntactical errors, network errors, form input errors, invalid authentication errors etc. I
Software systems inevitably encounter situations that can cause failures and malfunctions which affect user experience, data integrity, and security. In this blog post, we will learn how to avoid these situations though Exception handling . We will focus on software exceptions and how to address them using PHP.
We’re thrilled that ScoutAPM is now available on Render via Manifold’s new Marketplace-as-a-Service offering. For those of you not familiar, Render is a new unified cloud platform that lets developers build and run all their websites, apps, static sites, background workers, and microservice APIs from one place at a lower ...
AutoInstruments wraps instrumentation around code expressions in Ruby on Rails controllers by inspecting Ruby’s Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) as code is loaded. These code expressions then appear in traces, just like the many libraries Scout already instruments.
Falcon aims to increase throughput of web applications by using Ruby’s Fibers to continue serving requests while other requests are waiting on IO (ActiveRecord queries, network requests, file read/write, etc).
How can you tell if page faults are slowing you down, and - above all - how can you avoid being shuffled in-and-out of the library? This blog dives into the answers to these very questions.
Last month we talked about the PHP monitoring landscape in 2019 and announced that Scout APM would soon be available for monitoring your Laravel applications too (as well as your Ruby, Python and Elixir apps of course!). Now that our PHP monitoring agent is ready for beta testing, we thought it would be a good idea to show you folks how easy it is to get started with it and to highlight the main features to the Laravel community.
We are happy to announce that Scout now integrates with the popular error monitoring solution, Honeybadger. This integration brings a similar feature set to our existing Rollbar, Sentry and Bugsnag integrations, and it allows you to see your errors and exceptions alongside your performance metrics all on a single page. So let’s take this opportunity to take a closer look at Honeybadger and see how you can get it setup within Scout in just a few minutes!