Honeybadger

Seattle, WA, USA
2012
  |  By Muhammed Ali
Creating a dynamic, user-friendly interface for your React application can be a challenging task. One of the most important aspects of many modern web applications is the ability for users to easily create and edit text content. That's where a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor comes in. A WYSIWYG text editor provides a rich text-editing experience for users, allowing them to easily format text, add images and links with embedded media, and more.
  |  By Jeffery Morhous
According to Ruby tradition, the core team will release Ruby 3.4 on December 25—but the preview has been out since May! If you're anticipating the release like we are, you're probably wondering what's new in Ruby 3.4. There aren't any huge changes in this release, but you'll want to be aware of a few really cool things. Let's dig into some of the language changes first.
  |  By Jeffery Morhous
Rails 8 is finally here, and it's shaking things up in a pretty exciting way. If you're already active in the Rails community, you might have heard the tagline: "No PaaS Required." This is an unusual (but not surprising) mission—the release is all about making it easier to deploy your Rails apps without needing a fully-featured platform-as-a-service (PaaS).
  |  By Benjamin Curtis
If you want to run a SaaS app where your customers can each have one of their own domains pointing to your app, then you will encounter two problems: For example, let's say you wanted to provide a status page service hosted at yourapp.com that allows customers to set up their own domain (like status.acmecorp.com) to be served by your app. Let's dive into the solutions..
  |  By Giridhar Talla
Serverless technology allows you to build and deploy efficient, scalable, and modern web applications. By going serverless, you can eliminate the need for server management and save time and money. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to utilize the power of serverless by building a full-stack web application using different technologies. If you are ready to take your web development skills to the next level and build a serverless web application, let's get started!
  |  By Samson Omojola
In recent years, the serverless paradigm has become known as a transformative approach to application development, allowing us to focus more on writing code and less on managing infrastructure. Laravel Vapor, a serverless deployment platform for Laravel applications, brings the power of the Laravel framework into the world of serverless architecture.
  |  By Ashley Allen
When handling images in your Laravel applications, you may sometimes be required to edit them. This could include resizing, cropping, or converting images to meet a given criteria. For example, you may want to crop and resize all user avatar image uploads to a fixed-sized square. In this article, we'll examine how to use the Intervention Image (intervention/image) package in Laravel to edit images.
  |  By Ashley Allen
Ensuring that a growing codebase follows best practices and does not deviate from the standards is essential for any project. However, this can typically only be enforced manually by code reviews and other similar processes. As with any other manual task, this can be time-consuming, tedious, and error-prone. That's where architecture testing comes in. Architecture testing allows you to automatically enforce code standards such as naming conventions, method usage, directory structure, and more.
  |  By Michael Barasa
Many developers focus on developing core application functionalities and pay little or no attention to memory management until they run out of memory, and their apps start crashing, freezing, or experiencing random performance downgrades.
  |  By Jeffery Morhous
Continuous integration (CI) pipelines are an important part of building and deploying reliable software. Whether it's building a Docker image, running tests, or even just doing code linting, CI pipelines help you automate repetitive tasks and ship better code even faster. GitHub Actions lets you create pipelines to build containers, test source code, and publish software.
  |  By Honeybadger
While Josh is on vacation, Ben chats with guests Will King and John Nunemaker about the process and perils of trying to ship reliably. FounderQuest Episode 15, Season 5 July 19, 2024.
  |  By Honeybadger
Join Honeybadger cofounder Ben Curtis as he uses Honeybadger Insights to debug a slow controller action in Rails. Honeybadger Insights is a new full-stack logging, observability, and performance monitoring tool from Honeybadger.io. Gain insights into your errors, application logs, and other event streams with a powerful query language and ready-made dashboards.
  |  By Honeybadger
Ben and Josh catch up after a few weeks of heads-down product work, and they have lots to talk about—including a new Discord server for FounderQuest listeners! Plus, hear Josh’s thesis on why it’s a huge problem if you’re not using your product to the max.
  |  By Honeybadger
This week Ben interviews Garrett Dimon to talk about some of his exciting new projects. They also cover alternatives to the SaaS business model, such as self-hosted licensing options, to make vacations more relaxing for founders if something goes wrong.
  |  By Honeybadger
This week The Founders take a trip down freelancer memory lane and talk about the hot apps they built and which of them are still alive. They also cover NFTs, pivoting to private equity, and candy bar servers. Also, is "spider season" an official season in the Pacific Northwest?!?!? Click to listen now on the interwebs.
  |  By Honeybadger
This week the Founders recap the initial Hook Relay launch and cover things they learned along the way. Also discussed is if developers will struggle to find purpose if products like Hook Relay make their lives too easy. Lastly, do you remember the days of converting PSDs to HTML? Tune in and prepare for launch!
  |  By Honeybadger
There's no episode of FounderQuest this week. However, if you want to hear WHY there's no episode, Ben takes some time out of fighting fires to explain in 34 seconds.
  |  By Honeybadger
It's a special edition episode this week as Ben chats with Felix Livni of Schedulista to talk startups. There are plenty of hot takes to go around such as ignoring good advice when starting a business, how boostrappers should do the exact opposite things that a venture funded company does, and why you may consider direct mail for a SaaS business. Grab your pitchforks and tune in!
  |  By Honeybadger
This week The Founders talk about integrations and the fact they're spending more and more time updating Honeybadger because of partners' app changes. They also conduct an autopsy on the outbound sales initiative, discuss creating a fictional employee for customers to focus their ire, and decide whether to tweak Hook Relay's site or just ship it!
  |  By Honeybadger
This week on FounderQuest, the hosts go over some features of Hook Relay, share some research on broadcast email solutions, and discuss operational security tips for compliance (get a guard dog). Plus, Goatse is remembered as the original Rick Roll (NSW - Do NOT Google it).

Zero-instrumentation, 360 degree coverage of errors, outages and service degradation. Deploy with confidence and be your team's devops hero.

Monitoring — like web development — is complex. Every day we hear about new tools and techniques, but they're usually for big organizations. Ones with dedicated devops teams and so much traffic they care more about “error rates” than individual user experiences. When you're on a smaller team, this doesn't work so well. You know instrumentation doesn’t pay the bills. Customers do. When they encounter a problem you need clear actionable intelligence, not walls of charts and reams of logs.

What if there were a monitoring tool for developers like us? A single tool that could answer at a glance:

  • Are any front-end or back-end systems raising errors?
  • Is the site unreachable or unusually slow?
  • Are scheduled tasks completing as expected?
  • Which customers have been affected by errors today?
That’s Honeybadger. We’re the application health monitoring tool built for you, not Google.

Honeybadger is used by tens of thousands of pragmatic developers in companies of all sizes who want to focus on shipping great, error-free products instead of wasting time building and maintaining a bespoke monitoring stack.