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Who Killed the JVM? Attaching a Debugger Twice

A few weeks back, I told you about on-demand debugging in my Level-up your Java Debugging Skills with on-demand Debugging blog post, enabling you to delay a debugging session until: You gave orders via jcmd (onjcmd=y option), a feature contributed by the SapMachine team the program threw a specific exception (onthrow=<exception>) The program threw an uncaught exception (onuncaught=y) This is …

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Couch to fully-observed code with Spring Boot 3.2, Micrometer Tracing, and Digma

Collecting important data about your code in dev and test has become trivial, it’s now also getting easier to put that data to use. Tracing > Debugging There are many benefits to being able to follow what your Spring Boot code is doing using tracing. When used effectively, traces can reveal a lot about the inner workings of complex systems, …

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Masters of Java 2023 – Recap

Wednesday, November 8 the Masters of Java 2023 took place in Veenendaal. The annual code challenge for Java Developers of all levels. Organized by NLJUG with, First8 Conclusion, as the main sponsor responsible for the software and the tasks. Article by: First 8 Conclusion 65(!) enthusiastic developers, divided into 42 teams, were eager to get started. For some, it was …

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