Shai Almog
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Open Source Bait and Switch
When OSS advocacy goes too far & corporate greed takes over, free software is used as a tool to destroy competition and hurt the developer community. → Read More
Debugging Gson, Moshi and Jackson JSON Frameworks in Production
Parsing is a major source of production failures. Some are easy to track but some are insidious. Here's how you can debug them on the fly! → Read More
A Look into Remote Debugging and Developer Observability
Connect to remote processes to solve bugs using remote debugging and observability. Learn how you can securely scale your debugging to match growth. → Read More
How to Debug Issues with the Java Collections Framework in Production
Outside of the language itself, collections are the most basic building block for Java applications. How do we expose them for debugging? → Read More
Modernizing Legacy Code in Production
Rewriting apps is easy. Doing it while preserving compatibility... That's a bit hard. Doing it live in production. That's the big challenge! → Read More
Thread Debugging: Deadlocks and Race Conditions
Threading issues are a piece of cake with these simple debugger techniques. Yes, you CAN debug threads with breakpoints, when you start using the right type! → Read More
Memory Debugging and Watch Annotations
RAM profiling has its strengths and weaknesses. The debugger is the perfect complementary tool that translates obtuse statistics to actionable changes → Read More
When Disaster Strikes: Production Troubleshooting
Production is failing and everything is lost? That used to be the case. Fail whale, hysteria and panic. Developer observability fixes this! → Read More
Debugging the Java Message Service (JMS) API using Lightrun
Due to their asynchronous nature and production complexities debugging messaging systems is remarkably hard... WAS remarkably hard... → Read More
Getting Started Debugging Spring Transactions in Production
We use annotations to denote transactional behavior in modern Spring so we have no code, no failure, no debugging... But is it really? → Read More
Debugging jsoup Java Code in Production
Scraping is a fragile discipline. As a workaround we often use a server. Debugging these issues is remarkably difficult. Or at least it was. → Read More
Debugging Collections, Streams and Watch Renderers
Inspecting the data in the watch quickly is key to a fast and effective debugging session. Here's how you can see the data that's important instantly! → Read More
Debugging with Exception Breakpoints in Java
Dial up your debugging skills to 11 by leveraging some of the lesser known capabilities for debugging highly complex systems such as filters & wildcards → Read More
The Basics of Breakpoints you Might not Know
We work with debuggers practically every day & yet so much remains unknown. We’re operating this complex tool while using 4 or 5 basic features... → Read More
Detecting, Investigating, Verifying Fixes for Security Incidents, Zero Day Issues Using Lightrun
Cover major milestones in app security: finding the issue, evaluating a breach, proving it and validating the fix. Lightrun rises to the challenge. → Read More
Exploring an Open Source Toolkit for Debugging Kubernetes
A new open source approach for debugging live applications - right from inside your IDE or terminal window, and without stopping the live application. → Read More
Debugging Tutorial: Java Return Value, IntelliJ Jump to Line and more
Posted two new videos in the "140 Second Duckling" series. They cover some basic and some little known features of debuggers. Such as Object Marking → Read More
How to Make Your First Developer Relations Hire in 2022
Hiring a developer relations/advocate is difficult. It's even harder to be the first DevRel in the company. My colleagues share their experience → Read More
An Introduction to 140 Second Ducklings: What is Debugging?
I’m launching a new twitter video series that will focus on teaching the concepts of debugging (and other concepts) in small video bites this is the first video → Read More
Enter the Cloud Native Dojo: Blackbelt-Level Debugging
In this article I want to go over three big challenges we face when debugging modern applications: polyglot debugging, unreproducible and data pollution → Read More