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Foojay Podcast #14: Debugging Tools and Skills for Fun and Profit

February 20, 2023

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Author(s)

Frank Delporte
Frank Delporte (@frankdelporte) is a Java Champion, Java Developer, Technical Writer at Azul, Blogger, Author of "Getting started with Java on Raspberry Pi", and Pi4J Contributor. Frank blogs about his ... Learn more
Johannes Bechberger
A JVM developer working on profilers and their underlying technology, e.g. JEP Candidate 435, in the SapMachine team at SAP.
Marit van Dijk
Marit van Dijk is a Software Developer, Java Champion and Developer Advocate at JetBrains. With 20 years of software development experience in different roles and companies, Marit loves building awesome ... Learn more
Shai Almog
Author, DevRel, Blogger, Open Source Hacker, Java Rockstar, Conference Speaker, Instructor and Entrepreneur.
Ties van de Ven
Software Engineer @ JDriven, Coach @ JCore

Let's talk about debugging and observability.

We work with debugging all the time, but how well do we know this common practice?

Observability, monitoring, and debugging at scale for your production...

Guests

A lot of rubber ducks
Johannes Bechberger
- JVM and profiler developer
- Worked on the JDWP protocol and profiling
- https://github.com/parttimenerd
- https://twitter.com/parttimen3rd
- https://mastodon.social/@parttimenerd
- AsyncGetStackTrace: A better Stack Trace API for the JVM
- A short primer on Java debugging internals
Marit van Dijk
- Developer Advocate at JetBrains
- https://maritvandijk.com/
- https://twitter.com/MaritvanDijk77
- https://mastodon.social/@maritvandijk
Ties van de Ven
- Software Engineer @ JDriven, Coach @ Jcore
- https://www.tiesvandeven.nl/
- https://twitter.com/ties_ven
- 6 Steps to help you debug your application

Host

Shai Almog
- Author of “Practical Debugging at Scale”
- https://debugagent.com/
- https://mastodon.social/@debugagent
- https://twitter.com/debugagent

Producer

Frank Delporte
- https://foojay.social/@frankdelporte
- https://twitter.com/frankdelporte

Content

00'00 Intro and music
00'24 About the topic of this podcast
00'58 Introduction of the guests and host
05'14 Debugging with IntelliJ IDEA and discoverability of tools
- YouTube: Debugger playlist
- YouTube: Profiling tools
- YouTube: Profiling live stream
13'27 JDWP protocol
19'43 Exception breakpoints
- Foojay: Exception Breakpoint that Doesn’t Suck and a Real Use Case for Method Breakpoints
20'34 External debugging tools
- https://rubberduckdebugging.com/
26’55 Observability
37’58 What information should you look for while debugging
45’46 Be aware of tunnel vision while debugging
49’33 What to do if you don’t know where to search for the bug
- https://git-scm.com/docs/git-bisect
- Foojay: External Debugging Tools 2: git bisect
57’05 Outro

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Author Frank Delporte

Frank Delporte (@frankdelporte) is a Java Champion, Java Developer, Technical Writer at Azul, Blogger, Author of "Getting started with Java on Raspberry Pi", and Pi4J Contributor. Frank blogs about his experiments with Java, sometimes combined with electronic components, on the Raspberry Pi.

Author Johannes Bechberger

A JVM developer working on profilers and their underlying technology, e.g. JEP Candidate 435, in the SapMachine team at SAP.

Author Marit van Dijk

Marit van Dijk is a Software Developer, Java Champion and Developer Advocate at JetBrains. With 20 years of software development experience in different roles and companies, Marit loves building awesome software with amazing people and making developers lives better. She enjoys learning new things as well as sharing knowledge on…

Author Shai Almog

Author, DevRel, Blogger, Open Source Hacker, Java Rockstar, Conference Speaker, Instructor and Entrepreneur.

Author Ties van de Ven

Software Engineer @ JDriven, Coach @ JCore

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Frank Delporte
Frank Delporte (@frankdelporte) is a Java Champion, Java Developer, Technical Writer at Azul, Blogger, Author of "Getting started with Java on Raspberry Pi", and Pi4J Contributor. Frank blogs about his ... Learn more
Johannes Bechberger
A JVM developer working on profilers and their underlying technology, e.g. JEP Candidate 435, in the SapMachine team at SAP.
Marit van Dijk
Marit van Dijk is a Software Developer, Java Champion and Developer Advocate at JetBrains. With 20 years of software development experience in different roles and companies, Marit loves building awesome ... Learn more
Shai Almog
Author, DevRel, Blogger, Open Source Hacker, Java Rockstar, Conference Speaker, Instructor and Entrepreneur.
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Software Engineer @ JDriven, Coach @ JCore

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