In my previous post Chopping the Monolith, I explained that some parts of a monolith are pretty stable and only the fast-changing parts are worth being “chopped.” I turned the post into a talk and presented it at several conferences. I think it’s pretty well received; I believe it’s because most developers understand, or have direct experience, that microservices are …

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 …

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, …