Author: Shai Almog
Developer Advocate at Lightrun. Co-Founder of Codename One. Java Rockstar, Speaker, Author, Blogger, open source hacker and pizza enthusiast
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You’re Doing It Wrong — Recruiting a DevRel
Hiring a developer relations/advocate is difficult. It’s even harder to be the first DevRel in the company.
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Internal Security: Hardening Internal Systems
Security is at odds with productivity and team cohesion. It doesn’t have to be. There’s a balance that mitigates external and internal risk
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API Mocking: Essential and Redundant
Is API mocking in unit tests important or does it do nothing? The answer is nuanced but we do need such tests to reduce daily churn.
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Observability is Cultural
To leverage observability, we need a significant shift in our corporate culture that encapsulates the entire company and goes beyond tools.
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When Breakpoints Don’t Break
Tracepoints, also known as Logpoints, are gaining name recognition. But some still don’t know about the non-breaking breakpoints family.
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The Reason Java is Still Popular
There’s a reason Java continues to maintain popularity for such a long period of time: its conservative, slow, and steady approach is key to its success
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Great Time at JavaZone 2022
I had a pretty awful travel experience trying to reach Oslo, but it’s all worth it for what is possibly my favorite conference: JavaZone.
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Open Source Bait and Switch
When OSS advocacy goes too far and corporate greed takes over. FOSS is used as a tool to destroy competition and hurt the dev community.
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Serverless is the New Timeshare
Remember mainframes? Serverless is that: we own the machine and you rent out time on our big iron. We went full circle on progress…
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Migrating Monoliths to Microservices in Practice
Not another “break down the monolith” article, this article is about making the applicable decisions, measuring, and verifying the results!
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External Debugging Tools 3: JMXTerm
Monitor your application in production and locally. Understand what’s going on under the hood while debugging & changing settings on the fly.
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Effectively Bridging the DevOps – R&D Gap without Sacrificing Reliability
DevOps revolutionized our industry. CI & CD made six sigma common. Still bugs make it to production past our tests. Fixing them is harder now!
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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!
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External Debugging Tools 1: dtrace and strace
With these tools, track bugs within an application and its external dependencies without the source or deep knowledge of the environment!
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External Debugging Tools 2: git bisect
The hardest part in debugging is knowing the general area of the bug… and bisect literally shines a light on the specific commit that caused it.
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The Cost of Production Blindness
The Cloud rose to fame on the banner of cutting costs but with its tremendous growth, spend is rocketing. Learn how you can cut down overspend!
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Debugging Java Collections Framework Issues in Production
Outside of the language itself, collections are the most basic building block for Java applications. How do we expose them for debugging?
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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!
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Understand Source Code – Deep into the Codebase, Locally and in Production
Learn a new codebase by diving into it with debuggers to understand the full extent of internal semantics and interactions in the project.
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Spring Boot Performance Workshop with Vlad Mihalcea
Learn how to improve the performance of a Spring application and diagnose production problems. Lessons from our live workshop covering JPA!
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Debugging jsoup Java Code in Production Using Lightrun
Scraping is a fragile discipline. As a workaround, we often use a server. Debugging these issues is remarkably difficult. Or at least it was!
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