If you’ve written code for LoadRunner, you may have been lucky enough to work with The Master. If you were calm and patient, you may have even been shown The Way. The great secret. The lost, ancient art of opening the perfect bug. A bug that no dev can close as “description not clear/does not…
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Technology is constantly transitioning, and in this state of continuous ‘in-between’, hybrid is king. From manual to automated, physical to virtual, on-prem to the cloud, and now monolith to microservices and serverless. Serverless today is a fresh and blooming ecosystem, yet when it comes to making the transition to serverless (or microservices) the future…
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The holiday season is the perfect time for working on my pet project. Everyone is off with their families. Email is quiet, Github is silent, Jira is calm. Even the customers are taking some time off. Which means I can use this opportunity to invest in what really matters. Of course, I could spend some quality…
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If you’re developing a Java application, you’re likely using an APM, an exception management tool or a tracing solution. For any of those tools, you have probably faced the common challenge of monitoring a Java application: installing an instrumentation Agent. Java monitoring is performed by instrumentation agents called Java Agents and VM Agents. Both of…
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In this article, I’ll try to explain why the hell Rookout, a relatively new SaaS company, chose to use Jenkins, and what are the big advantages that make Jenkins so great even now, eight years in. In the last few years, the devops world has changed rapidly: We’ve moved from one big monolith architecture into…
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As an entrepreneur and the CTO of a young startup, keeping a close eye on the product is at the top of my priorities. To keep improving the product, I’m always alert to new issues; and seeing those issues from different perspectives is key to resolving problems before users are affected. This is where monitoring…
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By making it easier than ever to add powerful new microservices, Kubernetes has become a driving force behind companies breaking up monolith apps and transforming them into microservice architectures. But as their numbers grow, the cost of managing microservices and the dependencies between them increase exponentially as well. This makes things more complicated than many…
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Kids, today I’m going to tell you how I met your debugger. You see, back in the summer of 2010 I was fresh out of Uni and trying to prove myself at my first job – a small startup in the world of retail. My first major assignment was developing an Explorer add-in to a…
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I just returned from ServerlessDays Milan, where I had the pleasure and honor of speaking at a session and running a workshop about Serverless debugging. It was a jam-packed two days in a beautiful city, and a great opportunity to mingle with local serverless enthusiasts as well as some of the leading serverless thought leaders…
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When I’m on pager duty and the phone rings at 2:00AM with a production crash caused by some code change that was pushed too late in the day, what I really want is a friend. Someone to tell me that it’s all going to be OK, that I’ve solved a hundred such issues, that the…
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