Shai Almog (@talktotheduck)

Migrating Monoliths to Microservices in Practice

There have been amazing articles on the subjects of migrating from a monolith to a microservice architecture e.g. this is probably one of the better examples. The benefits and drawbacks of the architectures should be pretty clear. I want to talk abou...

Aug 29, 2022 · 8 min readtalktotheduck.dev

Debugging a Wordle Bug

I have a confession: I'm addicted to Wordle. Especially now that it's out of style and people don't post about it. I love that it's short, I can solve one word and then it's gone. I don't feel too bad about the addiction and wasting my time with a ga...

Jul 31, 2022 · 5 min readtalktotheduck.dev

External Debugging Tools 4: Debug the JVM Using jhsdb

Java 9 was all about modules. It was the big change and also the most problematic change. It sucked the air out of every other feature that shipped as part of that release. Unfortunately, one victim of this vacuum was jhsdb which is a complex tool to...

Jul 26, 2022 · 8 min readtalktotheduck.dev

External Debugging Tools 3: JMXTerm

When tracking a bug we need to take a two pronged approach. Similar to tongs that wrap the buggy module from both sides and squeezes to find the problematic part. Up until now we discussed tools that are very low level. Some can be used to debug syst...

Jul 21, 2022 · 6 min readtalktotheduck.dev

Understand the Root Cause of Regressions with Git Bisect

In this series I cover a lot of magical tools and git bisect is probably the best example of such magic. The hardest part in debugging is knowing the general area of the bug, bisect literally shines a light on the specific commit that caused it! Bef...

Jul 12, 2022 · 5 min readtalktotheduck.dev

Shai Almog

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Migrating Monoliths to Microservices in Practice

Debugging a Wordle Bug

External Debugging Tools 4: Debug the JVM Using jhsdb

External Debugging Tools 3: JMXTerm

Understand the Root Cause of Regressions with Git Bisect

Shai Almog

About

Available for

Shai Almog's blogs

Migrating Monoliths to Microservices in Practice

Debugging a Wordle Bug

External Debugging Tools 4: Debug the JVM Using jhsdb

External Debugging Tools 3: JMXTerm

Understand the Root Cause of Regressions with Git Bisect

Shai Almog

About

Available for

Shai Almog's blogs

Migrating Monoliths to Microservices in Practice

Debugging a Wordle Bug

External Debugging Tools 4: Debug the JVM Using jhsdb

External Debugging Tools 3: JMXTerm

Understand the Root Cause of Regressions with Git Bisect

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Shai Almog

About

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Shai Almog's blogs

Migrating Monoliths to Microservices in Practice

Debugging a Wordle Bug

External Debugging Tools 4: Debug the JVM Using jhsdb

External Debugging Tools 3: JMXTerm

Understand the Root Cause of Regressions with Git Bisect