Erin Baez, Author at Scalyr

Erin Baez / July 8

Log4j2 in a Maven Project: How to Setup, Configure, and Use

Logging is an essential component of any good software development process. Through logging, you can detect and fix issues, understand the behavior of your users, and even obtain valuable business insights. However, logging involves many…
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Erin Baez / July 7

Stack Trace: What Is It and How Does It Help You Debug?

As a developer, stack traces are one of the most common error types you’ll run into. Every developer makes mistakes, including you. When you make a mistake, your code will likely exit and print a…
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Erin Baez / July 1

AWS Lambda With Python: A Simple Introduction With Examples

We’ve previously covered AWS Lambda using Java. Today, we’ll take a look at Python. If you’re unfamiliar with AWS Lambda, it’s what we call a Function-as-a-Service offering from Amazon. A FaaS system hides all the…
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Erin Baez / June 30

Elastic Stack May Be Costing You More Than TCO

The Elastic Stack has value to the software development community but is known for being hard to maintain. Many developers look past that, saying that the total cost of ownership for it is still lower…
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Erin Baez / June 24

Observability in Your Systems: The Why and How

In the DevOps and SRE world, observability has become an important term, especially when you’re talking about running production systems. No matter how much effort you put in creating good quality software, there will always…
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Erin Baez / June 23

Controllability and Observability in Software Systems

Software systems have only ever grown in complexity. New trends such as microservices, distributed systems, and containerization have popped up. In addition, there is an increasing need for connectivity between systems. All of these technological…
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Erin Baez / June 17

Prometheus and Grafana: Capturing and Displaying Metrics

Metrics can be an incredibly powerful tool for running your software. The combination of Prometheus and Grafana continue to stand out as great, low-cost options to plug this power into new and existing applications. Both…
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Erin Baez / June 16

AWS Lambda Logging: An Intro How-To and Best Practices

Are you using AWS Lambda and looking for the best way to log? Or do you need a starting point? Your AWS Lambda functions can log to the CloudWatch service. Let’s look at how to…
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Erin Baez / June 11

Getting Started Quickly with CakePHP Logging

This post is yet another installment in the series where we show you how to quickly get started logging, one platform at a time. We’ve already covered C#,Java,Ruby, Python, andC++, and the last one was…
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Erin Baez / June 9

An Introductory and Detailed Apache Kafka Tutorial

Publishers are producing massive amounts of data daily. We as consumers are always looking for pieces that match our needs. Apache Kafka is a service in the middle of this ecosystem, helping us access the…
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