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Three Things To Know Before Debugging Your Spring Application

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. Brian W. Kernigham Debugging is hard, and in some places—like in the cloud, production, or Java Spring—it’s even harder. Moreover, debugging isn’t just about finding or fixing bugs in code. It also allows developers to better understand existing codebases by allowing them to see the flow of the entire application when starting work on a project they’ve just joined, or to refresh their memory before beginning to…
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Disaster Recovery Plan: How To Make Sure You’re Prepared For The Worst

Guest post originally published on Rookout’s blog by Gilad Weiss, Full Stack Developer at Rookout The first lesson you learn as you start to work around the DevOps field is that being optimistic is not a good virtue. While that might seem overly pessimistic, let me explain. We plan our architecture to fit our needs, deal with edge cases, scale our applications up and as wide as we see fit, and with all of that, we still always expect for the unexpected to happen. As engineers, we are expected to deal with that unexpected. We need to plan ahead and to set…
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Embedding Source Code Version Information In Docker Images

Guest post originally published on Rookout’s blog by Josh Hendrick, Senior Solutions Engineer at Rookout As organizations place focus on innovation and digital transformation across enterprise IT, we continue to see increased adoption of containers and microservice application development patterns. Containers have brought developers new levels of flexibility and portability, but oftentimes still leave developers with questions about the best way to configure and build those containers. One interesting area that comes up is around how developers can most easily embed source code version information into their images. Most development teams need a simple and easy way to do this…
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Understandability: The Most Important Metric You’re Not Tracking

The Basics of Understandability What is understandability? In dev terms, it means that the dev who creates the software is able to effortlessly receive the data from their software that allows them to easily comprehend what is happening in it. In essence, the more that a system is understandable, the easier it becomes for the developers who created it to then change it in a way that is safe and predictable. The Building Blocks In order to achieve understandability, we highly recommend that you understand what is at its core. There are four key characteristics that need to be present in…
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