Erin Baez, Author at Scalyr

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Erin Baez / September 17

AWS Lambda Tutorial: A Guide to Creating Your First Function

AWS Lambda is one of the leading serverless architectures in the cloud today. It was first-to-market among the major cloud vendors, offers the most competitive pricing, and is employed by Netflix, one of the largest…
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Erin Baez / September 10

RED and Monitoring: Three Key Metrics and Why They Matter

Looking at the performance of a new app you manage, you probably wonder what metrics matter most. Maybe you’ve implemented a monitoring tool. Or maybe not. Either way, what should you be monitoring? What metrics…
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Erin Baez / September 3

Getting Started Quickly With PowerShell Logging

In our “Getting Started with Logging” series, we’ve already covered logging for many languages and frameworks: C#, Java, Python, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Symfony, Kotlin, Flask, Angular, and Laravel. Today, we’ll add another one…
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Erin Baez / August 27

JavaScript Stack Trace: Understanding It and Using It to Debug

We’ve all been there. You’ve set up a new project, everything is going smoothly, and boom, it hits. You’re staring at a big red error in your console. After trying everything you can think of,…
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Erin Baez / August 20

Logging as a Service: Why the Cloud Is so Attractive

Imagine this: You have your services up and running in production. Then you get a call. Something’s broken in production. What’s the first thing you do? Where do you start so you can figure out…
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Erin Baez / August 13

What Is Whitebox Monitoring? Everything You Need to Know

When I first heard about whitebox monitoring, I thought I knew what it was just by name. But like many software terms, it’s easy to conflate one thing for another. It’s also easy to jump…
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Erin Baez / August 6

Getting Started Quickly With Symfony Logging

Logging is an important aspect of software development. In fact, in my opinion, it’s just as important as testing. Why? Logs become the only source of truth when things go wrong. That’s why in this…
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Erin Baez / July 30

Log Formatting: 7 Best Practices for Readable Log Files

Developers that are inexperienced with logging tend to have a lot of questions regarding it. Should you log to files, a database, or another target? How do I start logging using my preferred tech stack?…
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Erin Baez / July 23

Kafka Use Cases: When to Use It for Message Brokering

Today, we all want websites and applications to respond to our requests quickly, if not immediately. As the usage of our application grows, it becomes more challenging to provide customers with a short response time.…
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Erin Baez / July 16

PHP Stack Trace: Understanding It and Using It to Debug

If you’ve spent any amount of time writing code, you’ll know that debugging is a vital part of the process. Sometimes it can be challenging to work out why your program has crashed or stopped…
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