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Exploring the Chrome Debugger Protocol for Test Authoring
Benjamin Gruenbaum discusses the DevTools (debugger) protocol and how the DOM, JavaScript and the DevTools communicate, plus applications for test authoring.
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Record, Replay, Rinse, & Repeat: Easily Rebuilding Programmatic State
Greg Law talks about the various implementations of record and replay systems that can be used to debug software applications.
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Debugging Microservices Applications w/ Service Mesh, openTracing & Squash
Idit Levine describes and demonstrates common debugging techniques and introduces Squash, a new tool and methodology.
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Elm: Finding the Functional in Reactive Programming
Claudia Doppioslash discusses some of the useful features of Elm, such as time traveling debugger, immutability, union types, type inference and Functional Reactive Programming.
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Best Practices Using The CDT Debugger
Marc Khouzam presents best practices for debugging using dynamic printf, reverse debugging, the GDB console, the standalone debugger, a Docker container and connecting CDT to a running GDB session.
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DIY Monitoring: Build Your Own JVM Performance Management Tool
Tal Weiss shows how you can easily write your own JVM agent to capture accurate performance data for virtually any type of application from Java microservices to reactive actor systems in Scala.
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Debugging Microservices in Production
Bryan Cantrill describes the debugging techniques employed at Joyent, and shares real stories from the trenches - and how those painful experiences resulted in better tools and better methodologies.
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Five Techniques to Improve How You Debug Servers
Tal Weiss explores five crucial Java techniques for distributed debugging and some of the pitfalls that make bug resolution much harder, and can even lead to downtime.
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Statistical Debugging for Real-World Performance Problems
The authors show how statistical debugging can be used for diagnosing performance problems, lowing the overhead of run-time performance diagnosis without extending the diagnosis latency.
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CheckCell: Data Debugging for Spreadsheets
The presenters introduce CheckCell, an Excel add-on used to identify cells that have an unusually high impact on the spreadsheet’s computations.
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Debugging Java 8: New Techniques for Fixing Production Code
Tal Weiss discusses some essential tools and advanced techniques Java developers can use in their code to debug live servers and resolve errors quickly.
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Tardis: Affordable Time-Travel Debugging in Managed Runtimes
Earl Barr, Mark Marron discuss building time-travel debuggers for managed languages, implemented with Tardis, and enabling developers to investigate what happened prior hitting a bug.