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…connections between your application tiers. The most visually interesting change will likely be in the Application Map , where the logical connections between your app will be called out more clearly:
For the complete details on CAT, please see this blog post from release day .
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Applications capture, retrieve and display resources. These resources have costs, such as the cost of transmission, processing and storage. Different resources have varying probabilities of being required; some may be requested and others not, some may be requested frequently and others rarely. These are all things to consider when deciding what processes can and need to be optimized, which will in turn help you choose …
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…and Ryan Daigle's 5 Steps to Better Application Logging offer an overview of the logs-as-data approach.
Put simply, logs as data means writing semi-structured data to your app's logs via STDOUT. Then the logs can be consumed by one or more services to do dashboards, long-term trending, and threshold alerting.
The benefits of logs-as-data over direct instrumentation include:
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The Phusion Passenger 4.0 betas contain a vulnerability which allows arbitrary files to be deleted on the system. The vulnerability is local and cannot be exploited remotely. The vulnerability can only be triggered during application startup (e.g. during evaluation of config.ru). Environments that are at risk include, but may not be limited to:
Environments that host arbitrary untrusted applications, e.g. shared hosting environments.
Applications which contain vulnerabilities that allow their own code to be modified.
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Application processes that have been killed are now automatically detected within 5 seconds. Previously Phusion Passenger needed to send a request to the process before detecting that it's gone. This change means that when you kill a process by sending it a signal, Phusion Passenger will automatically respawn it within 5 seconds (provided that the process limit settings allow respawning).
Phusion Passenger Standalone's HTTP client body limit has been raised from 50 MB to …
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