Three Ways To Avoid Duplicate Sidekiq Jobs

By Nikola Đuza on May 12

Sidekiq is used to handle background processing. Whatever your background jobs may be, you'll eventually run into duplicate jobs. Let's see how to de-duplicate them.

New Features: Heroku Errors and a Magic Dashboard

By Robert Beekman on May 6

We now extract error incidents from Heroku Logplex data and have a magic dashboard for Heroku status codes.

A Quick Guide to CO2 Offsetting for Startups

By Stefan Verkerk on May 5

In this post, we'll take a look at how to measure your CO2 offsetting in an easy, quick and DIY manner.

Linting Ruby Code

By Miguel Palhas on Apr 28

Let's take a look at what linting is and a few problems that come with it.

Node.js's Underrated Combo: Passport and CASL

By Diogo Souza on Apr 21

In this article, we're going to explore two valuable Node.js packages — Passport and CASL — that can help you boost the security of your application by providing both authentication and authorization functionality.

Ruby on Rails Controller Patterns and Anti-patterns

By Nikola Đuza on Apr 14

In this part of the series on Rails patterns and anti-patterns, we are going to analyze the final part of the MVC (Model-View-Controller) design pattern — the Controller.

AppSignal Now Monitors Koa and All Your Cascading Middleware

By Stefan Verkerk on Apr 7

AppSignal now monitors Koa! This Node.js framework enables you to use cascading middleware, which can now also be shown in AppSignal.

Exposing More Public Endpoints for Sending Metrics and Errors to AppSignal

By Robert Beekman on Mar 31

To help customers running code on serverless architecture, we're exposing two new endpoints on our Public Endpoint API.

Engineering for Performance: Ghost Queries

By Robert Beekman on Mar 23

Using Ghost Queries to test a new system/database in production with no worry of errors or downtime.

The Easiest Way to Monitor Ruby: Automatic Instrumentation

By Milica Maksimović, Tom de Bruijn on Mar 17

Automatic instrumentation enables AppSignal app to digest, process, monitor, and show you the graphs and dashboards you need the most.

Powerful Caching with Redis for Node.js Applications

By Diogo Souza on Mar 10

In this article, we're going to explore some of the most interesting nuances of Redis caching patterns, using Node.js as the environment to run some benchmark testing.

New Feature: Searching Through Samples in AppSignal

By Wes Oudshoorn on Mar 2

Search is now available for all AppSignal customers. It enables you to quickly find specific samples inside of AppSignal.

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