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Making sure routes and config files are cached in a Laravel app

In a typical Laravel application, you'll likely to have many routes, config files and possible some events. In your development environment these routes and config files will loaded and registered in each request. The performance penalty for this is not too big. In a production environment, you want to cache these things. Laravel makes this easy by offering a couple of Artisan commands that you can use in your deployment procedure.

What is Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)?

The full form of MOM is Message-Oriented Middleware which is an infrastructure that allows communication and exchanges the data (messages). It involves the passing of data between applications using a communication channel that carries self-contained units of information (messages).In a MOM-based communication environment, messages are sent and received asynchronously.

Release update | What's new in Avantra 21.11.6

We’ve just released Avantra 21.11.6 and as Product Manager for Avantra, I get the opportunity to showcase some of the awesome new features we’ve managed to fit in this release. For Avantra 21.11.6, we’re continuing to focus on our Automation engine as well as squashing a few bugs and a couple of non-automation related features too.

Sematext Experience | Real User Monitoring Tool | Front-end Monitoring Solutions

Real user monitoring tools give you business-critical data directly from the end-users. While most monitoring and testing tools receive their data from scripts and bots, RUM tools give you valuable insights into how your real users are interacting with your application. While bots may be having a good time navigating through your site, real humans may not be able to.

A Guide on How to Monitor GraphQL APIs

GraphQL has replaced REST since its debut in 2015 and has gained popularity. It provides the flexibility frontend developers have longed for. The days of begging with backend developers for single-purpose endpoints are over. Now, a query can provide all the necessary data and request it at once, theoretically reducing latency by a significant amount. Everything was much easier with REST, especially monitoring.

A deeper dive into the Rogers outage

Beginning at 8:44 UTC (4:44am EDT) on July 8, 2022, Canadian telecommunications giant Rogers Communications suffered a catastrophic outage taking down nearly all services for its 11 million customers in what is arguably the largest internet outage in Canadian history. Internet services began to return after 15 hours of downtime and were still being restored throughout the following day.