Erik Dietrich, Author at Scalyr

Erik Dietrich / September 16

Search Your Files With Grep and Regex

To understand the grep regex combination, ask yourself a question first. How do you search through a file? On the surface, this might seem like sort of a silly question. But somewhere between the common-sense…
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Erik Dietrich / August 26

Why Distributed Tracing Will Be So Important in 2020

Distributed tracing is the stitching of multiple requests across multiple systems. It is one of the best ways to track down unexpected problems.

Erik Dietrich / July 22

Getting Started Quickly With Node.js Logging

Previously, we covered how to get started with logging in C#, Java, Python, and Ruby. Now, we’ll take a look at Node.js logging. As in the other articles, we’ll cover: How to log very basically.What…
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Erik Dietrich / July 15

AWS Lambda Use Cases: 11 Reasons Devs Should Use Lambdas

Devs should use AWS Lambdas for lots of reasons. Here are 7 that you need to know right now—plus two ways to run serverless AWS Lambda functions locally!

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Erik Dietrich / April 23

What Is a Site Reliability Engineer? Should You Become One?

Although site reliability engineering has been around for a while, it has only recently gained fame in general software circles. But there are still a lot of questions as to what a site reliability engineer…
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Erik Dietrich / April 9

Understanding the Apache Error Log in Detail

Today features another post about the nuts and bolts of logging. This time, I’ll be talking about the Apache error log in some detail. Originally, I had a different plan and outline for this post.…
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Erik Dietrich / February 18

Get Started Quickly With Python Logging

Picking up from the previous logging articles on how to get started logging with C# and Java,today we’ll be looking at how to get up and running quickly with Python logging. Even if you’ve already…
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Erik Dietrich / February 11

Getting Started Quickly With Ruby Logging

Time for us to continue with our ongoing series, in which we teach you how to get started logging quickly in a variety of programming languages. We started out the series with C#. After that,…
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Erik Dietrich / January 12

Surprising Use Cases for Log Visualization

People commonly say that a picture is worth a thousand words. So I wonder if log visualization is worth a thousand log entries. The math equivalency might be a little hard to prove, but the…
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Erik Dietrich / November 8

Getting Started Quickly With PHP Logging

The previous articles in this series covered the basics of logging in C#, Java, Python, Ruby, Node.js, and JavaScript. In this post, I’ll show you how to use logging techniques in yet another very popular…
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