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- Understanding Elixir’s GenStages - Querying the Blockchain
- Testing Asynchronous Threads in Ruby
- Building a Ruby C Extension From Scratch
- The innards of a RubyGem
- Hot Code Reloading in Elixir
- ActiveRecord vs. Ecto Part Two
- Improved Navigation
- The Magic of Class-level Instance Variables
- ActiveRecord vs. Ecto Part One
- #to_s or #to_str? Explicitly casting vs. implicitly coercing types in Ruby
- How OTP Applications are structured
- Differences Between #nil?, #empty?, #blank?, and #present?
- Closures in Ruby: Blocks, Procs and Lambdas
- Push and Pub/Sub in Ruby
- Lists vs Tuples in Elixirs
- Rails Collection Caching
- Elixir package 1.8: Improvements!
- Ruby gem 2.7: Improvements and bug fixes
- Changing the Way Ruby Creates Objects
- Generating Random Numbers in Ruby
- Ruby Magic Summer Special: The Best of AppSignal Academy
- Parsing Numbers in Elixir
- JavaScript-sprinkled Rails Applications
- Elixir integration 1.7 released
- Under the Hood: “Slurping” and Streaming Files in Ruby
- AppSignal Dashboard: Live updating insights
- Custom Exceptions in Ruby
- Rebooting the Luftschiff!
- Caching counters with ActiveRecord's counter caches
- Deconstructing Elixir's GenServers
- Ruby's redo, retry and next keywords
- Ruby's magical Enumerable module
- Speeding up your app’s navigation with Turbolinks
- Ensuring execution, retrying failures and reraising exceptions in Ruby
- Elixir integration 1.6: The GDPR release!
- General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- Ruby gem 2.6: The GDPR release!
- Client-side caching in Rails: conditional GET requests
- ActiveRecord performance: the N+1 queries antipattern
- Post-mortem: April 19th, 2018
- Rails' built-in cache stores: an overview
- New GitHub integration
- Rescuing exceptions in Ruby
- AppSignal UI updates
- Elixir integration 1.5 released
- Russian doll caching in Rails
- Understanding system load and load averages
- Fragment caching in Rails
- Exceptions in Ruby
- Understanding CPU statistics
- Benchmarking Ruby Code
- Inspecting data in Ruby
- Comparing host metrics
- Syntactic sugar methods in Ruby
- Ruby gem 2.5 - JRuby support!
- Debugging exceptions in Rails
- Improved host metrics and alerts
- Reading and understanding Ruby stack traces
- Track cache hits with custom metrics
- Elixir integration 1.4 released
- Ruby gem 2.4 - FreeBSD support and more exceptions!"
- Koos: keeping others off support
- Better, more and more specific notification options
- Two-factor authentication
- (Mass) Change incident status
- Introducing Anomaly detection (Beta)
- Improved Snapshots of your apps
- Supervisors: Building fault-tolerant Elixir applications
- Elixir integration 1.3 released
- A look at how Ruby interprets your code
- Improved Slack notifications
- Gem 2.3 - ActionCable!
- Concurrency Deep Dive: Event loops
- Demystifying processes in Elixir
- Gem 2.2 - Custom namespaces!
- Concurrency Deep Dive: Multi-threading
- Elixir integration 1.2 released
- Elixir integration 1.1 released
- Concurrency Deep Dive: Multi-process
- Launching AppSignal for Elixir
- Gem 2.1 released - Alpine Linux support!
- Documentation updates
- Running Rack: How Ruby HTTP servers run Rails apps
- Escaping characters in Ruby
- Learning how to become a product business
- Review active browser sessions
- Add custom markers from any graph
- Building a 30 line HTTP server in Ruby
- Custom Markers
- Gem 2.0 released 🎉
- Rescuing Exceptions in Ruby: A Primer
- Rebasing a complex branch in Git
- Introducing: A new layout for AppSignal
- Gem 1.3: Giving Sinatra some love
- How to tame your growing users table
- Introduction to Garbage Collection (Part II)
- Host metrics in samples
- Introduction to Garbage Collection (Part I)
- Monitor MongoDB (query) load with Custom Metrics
- New event timeline
- Gem 1.2: Host metrics
- Gem version 1.1
- Share the love: give 100, get 100
- Upgrading to Mongoid 5 / mongo-ruby-driver
- Mastering Concurrency
- Introducing Graph Toggles
- Stroopwafels and how to eat them
- How to use custom metrics
- Getting high on our own supply
- Shipped it: A partnership with the Ruby on Rails podcast
- Event type graphs
- AppSignal agent release
- Phabricator integration
- PagerDuty integration
- OpsGenie integration
- Five Signs to Recognize a Future Customer
- Gem version 0.11.13 released
- Custom notifications with Zapier
- Automated screenshots using Capybara and Selenium
- Padrino support
- Issue states, notification settings & interface updates
- Introducing the Intercom integration beta
- Handling VAT with Stripe: Follow up
- Introducing the JIRA beta
- Official Sinatra support
- Introducing the Zapier beta (No Official Support Since 2017)
- GitLab integration
- Gem version 0.11
- AppSignal integrates with Pivotal Tracker, GitHub & Trello
- First steps towards a new front-end architecture
- Handling VAT with Stripe
- Post-Mortem: Why our gem disabled itself
- Gem version 0.10
- Consistent API
- Flowdock integration
- Gem version 0.9
- Our response to Heartbleed
- Stroopwafels as a Service
- Set notification settings per application
- Vastly improve performance for MongoDB, Mongoid and Sidekiq
- Refactoring design
- Error, performance and deploy notifications in Slack
- We now monitor your background jobs
- Realtime graphs from MongoDB with aggregations
- AppSignal API
- Error request tagging
- AppSignal and Shelly Cloud partner up
- Improved graphs and snapshots
- Taming our MongoDB database size.
- AppSignal Sunday
- Poor man's usability testing
- Developers and designers: an arranged marriage.
- Gem version 0.6
- A quick post about reducing MongoDB queries
- User test
- Designing AppSignal
- Opening up shop
- 401: Unauthorized
- Filtering sensitive data from params
- Better graphs, event tree & new hosts section
- jQuery toggle() is slow, JavaScript to the rescue
- Welcome to AppSignal!
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