Practical Debugging at Scale: Cloud Native Debugging in Kubernetes and Production

by Shai Almog

Overhaul your debugging techniques and master the theory and tools needed to debug and troubleshoot cloud applications in production environments. This book teaches debugging skills that universities often avoid, but that typically consume as much as 60% of our time as developers. The book covers the use of debugger features such as tracepoints, object marking, watch renderers, and more. Author Shai Almog presents a scientific approach to debugging that is grounded in theory while being practical enough to help you to chase stubborn bugs through the maze of a Kubernetes deployment.
Practical Debugging at Scale assumes a polyglot environment as is common for most enterprises, but focuses on JVM environments. Most of the tooling and techniques described are applicable to Python, Node, and other platforms, as well as to Java and other JVM languages. The book specifically covers debugging in production, an often-neglected discipline but an all too painful reality. You’ll learn modern techniques around observability, monitoring, logging, and full stack debugging that you can put to immediate use in troubleshooting common ailments in production environments. 

You Will The scientific method underlying the process of debuggingDebugger capabilities such as tracepoints and marker objectsThe correct use of less understood features such as exception breakpointsTechniques for tracing issues in production Kubernetes environmentsObservability and monitoring to resolve production problemsIndustry best practices for common tooling such as logging Profiling to understand performance and memory problems 
Who This Book Is For
Developers in Java and JVM-related languages who want to improve their debugging skills and production reliability;and developers of cloud applications who are facing the pain of production bugs that are hard to replicate and fix

366 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 2, 2023

About the author

Shai's professional software development career started more than 25 years ago. He worked for/with countless companies including Sun Microsystems, Oracle, Samsung, Nokia as well as banks, insurance companies etc.

Shai was a team member on the original Wireless Toolkit from Sun Microsystems. It was the more popular cross platform mobile development tool at the time and revolutionized the field. Together with Chen Fishbein they created LWUIT which became the most succesful mobile open source project from Sun Microsystems and the basis for Codename One.

Shai is a Java One rockstar who shared the stage with the likes of James Gosling. As a highly rated speaker he was featured in multiple conferences such as JavaZone, codemotion, dev days etc.
He blogs at Codename One as well as Hackernoon, JavaCodeGeeks and dzone (MVB).