This isn't another "break down the monolith" article. This post is about making the applicable decisions, measuring and verifying the results

Migrating Monoliths to Microservices in Practice

Creating tutorials for debugging is especially challenging. For our new playground we built a tutorial based on Wordle. This is the bug we created...

Debugging a Wordle Bug

Need to diagnose an app, possibly in production? Weird crashes? Gc tuning? Core dump from the JVM? jhsdb is the tool you've been searching for!

External Debugging Tools 4: Debug the JVM Using jhsdb

Monitor your application in production or locally. Understand what's going on under the hood while debugging & change application settings on the fly.

External Debugging Tools 3: JMXTerm

Your git fairy godmother will test and locate the bugs for you with a swish of her magic wand. All you need to know are the magic words: git bisect...

Understand the Root Cause of Regressions with Git Bisect

Cloud rose to fame on the banner of cutting costs but with its tremendous growth the spend is rocketing. Learn how you can cut down overspend.

The Cost of Production Blindness

Track bugs within an application and its external dependencies without the source code or deep knowledge of the environment using these amazing tools!

External Debugging Tools 1: dtrace and strace

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!

Debugging Gson, Moshi and Jackson JSON Frameworks in Production

Learn a new codebase by diving into it with debuggers to understand the full extent of internal semantics & interactions within the project.

Understand Source Code – Deep into the Codebase, Locally and in Production

Had an amazing time speaking at Berlin yesterday. WAD is a huge conference that far exceeds the bare stats. Well worth the time!

We Are Developers Trip Report: Largest Conference you Might not Know

Learn how to improve the performance of a Spring application and diagnose problems in production. Lessons from our live workshop covering JPA!

Spring Boot Performance Workshop with Vlad Mihalcea

Connect to remote processes to solve bugs using remote debugging and observability. Learn how you can securely scale your debugging to match growth.

Remote Debugging and Developer Observability

Debugging secrets - learn how to dig deep into your apps. The hidden techniques, tricks and tools for debugging, APM and more. With a big focus on production tracing and developer oriented APM tools.

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