Debugging

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

In this episode Matt, Bill & Jon discuss various debugging techniques for use in both production and development. Bill explains why he doesn’t like his developers to use the debugger and how he prefers to only use techniques available in production. Matt expresses a few counterpoints based on his different experiences, and then the group goes over some techniques for debugging in production.

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Featuring:

• Matthew Boyle – Website, GitHub, X
• Bill Kennedy – Website, GitHub, X
• Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Limits in Kubernetes - A blog by Bill
• Prometheus
• crawler-hints
• distributed tracing
• service weaver
• encore
• Petr Levels
• Andrea Medda
• Matt’s debugging course

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Bab

1. It's Go Time! (00:00:00)

2. Meet the guests (00:00:44)

3. Debugging locally (00:02:18)

4. Shared computer debugging (00:12:22)

5. Don't use an else clause (00:18:23)

6. Team size (00:23:30)

7. Sponsor: FireHydrant (00:26:40)

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8. Debugging in prod (00:29:18)

9. How long to keep logs (00:33:09)

10. The golden boot (00:37:35)

11. Metrics (00:40:49)

12. Tracing (00:50:05)

13. Unpopular opinions! (00:52:21)

14. Jon's unpop (00:52:40)

15. Bill's unpop (00:53:01)

16. Matt's unpop (01:03:08)

17. Outro (01:09:37)