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Effective microservices logging requires standardized formats, centralized storage, correlation IDs, and strong security measures. This guide walks you through setup strategies, best practices, and tool recommendations that won't break your budget.

Effective Node.js monitoring requires tracking runtime metrics (memory, CPU), application metrics (request rates, response times), and business metrics (user actions, conversion rates). This guide covers what to track, how to collect it, and how to set up meaningful alerts.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) powers everything from scrappy startups to Fortune 500 giants. So, AWS interview questions are relevant for all kinds of roles, from infrastructure design to cost governance. Now, while some interviews test definitions and acronyms, the best ones dig deeper. They explore how well you understand AWS trade-offs—think of performance vs. cost, scalability vs. complexity, or security vs. usability.

With advances in AI and heightened compliance requirements, the way we handle data is changing rapidly. This makes a robust database change management process crucial for organizations who still need to ship value to market, while getting the right data into the hands of decision-makers faster. It’s a tough set of demands for any organization to grapple with as they modernize their data for the future.

At CircleCI, we’re committed to making our platform work seamlessly with the AI-powered tools that developers increasingly rely on. Our journey into AI integration is focused on creating a robust Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that allows AI assistants to access and understand CircleCI data in real-time. This enables developers to debug build failures, analyze test results, find and fix flaky tests, and improve pipelines using natural language within their favorite AI tools.

CircleCI gives you deep visibility into your builds, workflows, and tests, but jumping between browser tabs, copying project URLs, or re-authenticating across tools can slow things down. What if your IDE could just show you the projects you’re working on and let you act on them directly? This post shows how to use the list_followed_projects tool in the CircleCI MCP server to browse and interact with your CircleCI projects by chatting with an AI assistant inside your IDE.

Heroku and AWS offer distinct benefits for startups and mid-size companies. This guide compares pricing, scalability, security, and developer experience to help you choose the right cloud platform based on your team’s needs and growth goals.

Your Java app slows down during peak load. A microservice crashes, but logs aren’t helpful. These aren’t rare events—they’re common signs something’s off inside the JVM. For Java developers and DevOps teams, JVM metrics offer clues to what’s going on. This blog covers the key metrics to track, what they tell you, and how to use them to troubleshoot performance issues in a practical, no-nonsense way.

Yet another supply chain attack has surfaced, this time using the xrpl library to sneak through malicious packages. xrpl.js is recognised as the recommended npm library for integrating the XRP Ledger (XRPL) with JavaScript/TypeScript applications, and has over 140k downloads a week.