And It All Went Horribly Wrong: Debugging Production Systems
Bryan Cantrill discusses debugging production systems using post-mortem debugging and dynamic instrumentation, with a bit of history and an introduction to useful debugging tools.
InfoQ
InfoQ
Topic/Tag specific view
Debuggers Content on InfoQ
Latest featured content about Debuggers
Discover Recording JVM Debuggers
A debugger is a great tool for examining the internal state of an application, reproducing however a specific issue is a completely different matter. Fully replicating the production environment into a staging area might even be a feat on its own. Meet recording debuggers that remove all the guesswork and extra effort by monitoring the application in production and knowing exactly what happened.
Evan Phoenix on Rubinius
Evan Phoenix discusses Rubinius, a modern Ruby VM loosely based on the Smalltalk-80 architecture. The goal is to build a fast, efficient VM with the latest research in dynamic language implementations
News about Debuggers
Improved JavaScript development in Visual Studio 11
Microsoft intends to make JavaScript development easier in Visual Studio 11 by significantly enhancing Intellisense, debugging support, editor functionality, and more.
Google Dart Roundup: Dartium Binaries Available, I/O Libraries, Book and Docs
The first binaries of Dartium, Chrome with a built-in Dart VM, are now available for download. Dartium has the beginnings of debugging support in Dev Tools. Meanwhile, a lot of documentation resources have become available both from Google and outside.
Debugger Canvas 1.1 Adds Easy On/Off, Improved Navigation
Debugger Canvas, the tool that introduced 'Code Bubbles' to the Visual Studio Ultimate debugger, debuted last summer. Debugger Canvas 1.1 launches with new features including an easy on/off switch that can be used while debugging, and the ability to view multiple threads at once.
Chronon 2.0 Offers Post Execution Logging
Chronon Systems has recently released version 2 of their recording JVM debugger which allows for post execution logging.
Mozilla, WebKit To Support Debugging Minified JS As Well As CoffeeScript and other JS Languages
Debuggers for Javascript are powerful - but only for plain Javascript. Minified Javascript and languages compiling to Javascript are not supported, ie. that means no breakpoints or accurate log messages for CoffeeScript, ClojureScript etc. InfoQ looks at the current situation and at the recently launched projects at WebKit and Mozilla that aim to fix it.
Debugging Mobile Web Apps: Weinre and JSConsole Now, Remote WebKit Eventually
Debuggers in mobile web browsers are anemic at best. InfoQ takes a look at existing workarounds and tools like Weinre and JSConsole, as well as the upcoming changes in mobile browsers that will bring full debugging support. Also: the two mobile browsers that already live in the future and ship remote debugging support.
RedGate Will No Longer Offer .NET Reflector for Free
RedGate has announced that .NET Reflector is going to become a commercial product starting with version 7 which is to be made available in the first part of March, 2011, having a price tag of $35. Reflector Pro which allows developers to debug through disassembled code is currently offered for $95.
Ruby VM Roundup: MacRuby 0.8, Rubinius 1.2, MRI 1.8.7 and 1.9.2 Updates
A whole batch of new Ruby VM releases is available. MacRuby 0.8 fixes bugs and begins the path to 1.0. Rubinius 1.2 improves memory efficiency and the debugger. MRI received new patch levels: 1.8.7-p330 and 1.9.2-p136, the first big bug fix update to 1.9.2.