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Hello​​, In this Newsletter, we're happy to introduce some updates: Custom domain, dotenv file, CLI improvements, and new resources.

Platforms like Heroku give you the freedom to focus on building great applications rather than getting lost setting up and maintaining infrastructure. One of the many great features of working with it is the Heroku logs that enable monitoring your stack error troubleshooting. It helps speed up the process when things go wrong. In this Heroku tutorial, we’ll uncover best practices for making the most of Heroku logs.

By: Martin Black - Head of ITSM Centre of Excellence, Veolia and Antoine Castex, Principal Cloud Solution Architect, Veolia At Veolia one of the cornerstones of our business philosophy is sustainability.

Logs are an invaluable source of information, as they provide insights into the severity and possible root causes of problems in your system. But it can be hard to get the right level of visibility from your logs while keeping costs to a minimum. Systems that process large volumes of logs consume more resources and therefore make up a higher percentage of your overall monitoring budget. Further, log throughput can be highly variable, creating unexpected resource usage and financial costs.

In part one of this two-part blog series, we discussed seven reasons security configurations are an important part of an organization’s security posture. In this part, we’ll look at eight security configurations that can help with ensuring comprehensive control over the endpoints, avoiding vulnerabilities, deploying security configurations, and automating a number of verticals of endpoint security.

Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week, we’ll take an in-depth look at multiexperience which came in second on the list of Gartner’s top 10 strategic technology trends for 2020 and it’s importance in an organization’s digital transformation.

As one of the leading grocery delivery services in India, Grofers needed to make massive fulfillment adjustments as demand rocketed due to an entire nation sheltering in place to help control the spread of infection during a global pandemic. For the Grofers team, providing much-needed grocery delivery service is as much of a technical challenge as a human resources one.

Custom Handler is a feature in Azure Functions which lets you bring your own command, script, or executable, and hook it up to Azure Functions Triggers and Bindings. Custom Handler implements a lightweight Web Server. In other words, you can write your own APIs, in any language i.e. it need not be a language supported by Azure functions. You can just hook up your Azure function host with your custom API and let your function act as a proxy.

We’ve heard from our customers that you need visibility into metrics and logs from Google Cloud, other clouds, and on-prem in one place. Google Cloud has partnered with Blue Medora to bring you a single solution to save time and money in managing your logs in a single place. Google Cloud’s operations management suite gives you the same scalable core platform that powers all internal and Google Cloud observability.

Software developers, students, and a few sea creatures have spoken. GitKraken is the most popular Git GUI in the world—named the most used graphical user interface for Git in the 2020 State of the Software Development Report. You might, however, be on the fence; maybe you’re Git-curious, but not sure whether to ‘commit’ (sorry) to a GUI. After all, there are several out there. Which one should you choose?