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Announcing The 2021 State of Software Code Report

February 17, 2021

By Brian Rue
When Cory Virok and I started Rollbar in 2012, we knew something was lacking in how software was being built…

10 Developer Horror Stories To Keep You Up at Night

October 19, 2020

By Yoz Grahame
This is a guest post from our partners at LaunchDarkly. We software engineers like to think ourselves…

5 Ways to Improve Your Dev Team Velocity

June 29, 2020

By Julian Simpson
Velocity, much like the pulse rate or oxygen level of an individual, is an important measure of health for…

Apache Kafka Example: How Rollbar Removed Technical Debt - Part 2

April 07, 2020

By Jon de Andrés Frías
In the first part of our series of blog posts on how we remove technical debt using Apache Kafka at Rollbar…

Apache Kafka Example: How Rollbar Removed Technical Debt - Part 1

March 10, 2020

By Jon de Andrés Frías
In this two-part series of blog posts, we’ll explain how Kafka has helped us in removing parts of our…

Best Practices for Moving from a Monolith to Microservices

February 10, 2020

By Chris Maki
In the first post of this series, we looked at the state of your organization, how to tell if Microservices…

Monolith to Microservices: Is Your Organization Ready?

December 15, 2019

By Chris Maki
Transitioning from a Monolith to a Microservices architecture can take years to complete. The internet is full…

Turbocharge QA with Pre-Production Monitoring

November 05, 2019

By Marcelo Oliveira
Traditionally, Quality Assurance (QA) has been a very manual process. Our QA teams do an amazing job running…

Rollbar CTO, Cory Virok, Shares His Expertise on Creating an Enterprise Solution for Today’s Modern Software Company

October 24, 2019

By Cory Virok
We sat down with Rollbar CTO, Cory Virok, for a Q&A on how his leadership role and industry expertise helped…

Exception Monitoring Across Environments

July 31, 2019

By Hemant Jain
Tools like Rollbar have changed the way development teams are recording and managing their exceptions. What…

Most Popular Java Web Frameworks in 2021

July 23, 2019

By Vince Power
As Java has evolved over the years, multiple attempts have been made to simplify development for various use…

Continuous Delivery with Jenkins and Rollbar

July 10, 2019

By Jason Skowronski
Continuous delivery (CD) helps reduce the cost, time and risk of delivering changes by allowing for fast…

4 Reasons Why You Need Error Monitoring

February 19, 2019

By Jason Skowronski and Craig Guillot
Errors are a fact of life in web development, and even the world's greatest brands are not without fault…

Win-Win Deployment Strategies for Modern Apps

November 13, 2018

By Sadequl Hussain and Jason Skowronski
These days, the biggest change to software development is the frequency of deployments. Product teams deploy…

Top 10 PHP errors from 1,000+ projects (and how to avoid them)

July 30, 2018

By Jason Skowronski
To give back to our community of developers, we looked at our database of thousands of projects and found the…

Errors on the world’s top 100 websites and how to avoid them

June 13, 2018

By Jennifer Marsh
When you think of the top 100 sites in the world, you think of high-traffic domains and pages coded to…

Top 10 errors from 1000+ Ruby on Rails projects (and how to avoid them)

April 18, 2018

By Phil Nash
To give back to our community of developers, we looked at our database of thousands of projects and found the…

5 Surprising and Sneaky Ways Errors Impact Your Business

April 16, 2018

By Jason Skowronski
Every app is imperfect and generates errors, but do you know how errors affect your users and business? When…

Top 10 JavaScript errors from 1000+ projects (and how to avoid them)

January 24, 2018