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There's another class of debugging tools: tracers such as dtrace and bpftrace. There are a lot of bugs that you just can't reproduce in a debugger, or even in
by rhinoceraptor 7y ago
There's another class of debugging tools: tracers such as dtrace and bpftrace. There are a lot of bugs that you just can't reproduce in a debugger, or even in a development environment at all. You need to be able to debug in production safely and without huge performance penalties.
- non-entity 7y agoI actually looked at learning dtrace recently, wondering if it could help me with a handful of isuses, but so far I've been unable to find information related to its capabilities, or up to date guides / books/ tutorials
- rhinoceraptor 7y agoBrendan Gregg's website is a good resource, for both dtrace and ebpf: http://www.brendangregg.com/dtrace.html http://www.brendangregg.com/dtrace.html