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A Detailed Guide to PHP Debugging

If you use PHP or you find yourself “adopting” a PHP app (like I did a few years ago), you must know how to debug PHP. In this detailed guide to PHP debugging, you’ll see some debugging techniques that apply to almost any programming language. But don’t worry. I’ll get into the specifics that apply to PHP, from the basics all the way to fully integrated debugging techniques. Let’s start with a basic technique in PHP debugging: outputting and logging values.

Office 365 Suffers Multiple Outages for Start of 2019

Unfortunately, Microsoft and Office 365 suffered their second major outage of the year and this one was even bigger than the first. We say “unfortunately” because even though our business is to help monitor cloud and SaaS services and our business goes up when there are problems, we don’t wish an outage on any cloud provider. Operating a SaaS business at the scale of Microsoft Office 365 is a herculean task and that’s why they get paid the big bucks.

How to Identify Orphaned EBS Snapshots to Optimize AWS Costs

So a while back I got an email from our finance team. I was tasked to assist with tagging resources in our AWS infrastructure and investigate which items are contributing to certain costs. I don’t know about other engineers, but these kinds of tasks are on the same realm of fun as … wiping bird poop off your windshield at a gas station. So I did the sanest thing I could think of.

Extending Stackdriver to on-prem with the new BindPlane integration

We introduced our partnership with Blue Medora last year, and explained in a blog post how it extends Stackdriver’s capabilities. We’re pleased to announce that you can now join our new offering for Blue Medora. If you’re using Stackdriver to monitor your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources, you can now extend your observability to on-prem infrastructure, Microsoft Azure, databases, hardware devices and more.