July 2022 Summaries

Lila Kurse, a software engineer with multicultural roots from Belarus and India, shares her journey into the tech world and her passion for coding, which began with a fascination for robots. Her diverse upbringing and experiences across four countries have enriched her understanding of various cultures and languages. Upon moving to the UK, she joined Axiom during the pandemic, where she found a welcoming and supportive team environment that she likens to a second family. Lila emphasizes the importance of asking questions as a means of learning and efficiency and reflects on the positive shift towards gender balance she experienced during her studies, where her class was notably composed of over 50% women. She encourages more women to enter the tech industry, highlighting the dynamic and inspiring nature of the field and expressing optimism about achieving gender balance in the near future.

Axiom has recently introduced several updates, including the release of Advanced Observability for Vercel applications, particularly those using Next.js with the next-axiom plugin. This integration, now available in the Vercel marketplace, offers persistent logging and performance metrics, and features a comprehensive dashboard that enhances full-stack observability by supporting all Vercel log sources. The next-axiom plugin is the first observability tool designed specifically for Next.js, providing isomorphic observability that allows for the monitoring of web vitals and the sending of logs and events across both frontend and backend environments with minimal configuration. Additionally, Axiom has improved its APL documentation by implementing syntax highlighting, which aids in better understanding the operators and functions available, and has expanded support for datetime functions such as startofweek(), startofmonth(), and startofyear(). Users can now also open queries directly from dashboard charts to the data explorer page for easy modification and visualization monitoring.