I've Had Log Files Get Into the Gigs

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"I was running out of space on my server yeah and it was just getting slower and slower because there was like not enough space to run things," he says. "We often forget as developers that like text is bytes and you're saving a lot of text or a lot of informationYeah I mean that's it's pretty easy to rack up actual storage space of of things with just text just by writing a lot ofText"

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the reasons why you should log errors, how it’s not just for debugging, where to save logs, and apps and packages to help with logging.

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