“All code and no logging makes John a black box error-prone system.” Logging is a key aspect of monitoring, troubleshooting and debugging your code. Not only does it make your project’s underlying execution more transparent and intelligible, but also more accessible in it’s approach. In a company or a community ...

When it comes to web development, middleware is often the key to ensuring everything connects up - even if some of the pieces don’t always matchup. HTTP Middleware is a mechanism used to conveniently filter HTTP requests coming into your web application. When it comes to PHP, frameworks often help ...

The 15 Best Podcasts for Engineers If you’ve been on the hunt for a new developer podcast, then you understand just how difficult and fruitless that hunt can be. You can spend hours online sifting through coding podcasts, programming podcasts, and devops podcasts just to realize one simple thing: none ...

There's no type of monitoring tool that can get to the heart of a performance problem faster than Application Performance Management (APM). If you're making this decision, you may be choosing between New Relic and Scout . There are cases where New Relic is a better fit, clear cases where ...

A Complete Guide to Rails Caching. Application performance is always a concern when building in the modern, competitive web and mobile space. At Scout, it’s why we created application performance monitoring tools in the first place. That said, there are steps you can take to build a more ...

This article is a continuation of Part I (A comprehensive guide to migrating from Python 2(Legacy Python) to Python 3) which details the changes, improvements in Python 3 and why they are important. This rest of the article details automated tools, strategies and role of testing in the migration from ...

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 ...

Flask is Python’s most popular web application framework. Learn how you can use Flask to establish a strong foundation for a full stack application.

The Scout team will be headed to Miami February 6-8 to SunshinePHP Developer Conference . If you're headed to the event, stop by our booth to meet Marty and PJ and learn more about our support for Laravel apps and the upcoming release of Symfony support. We'll have plenty of ...

In this article, we'll be comparing the features and performances of two server-side programming languages; Python and Java. The intent is to provide enough knowledge to make an informed decision about which language to pick for your use-case when faced with such a situation.