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Show a person the bug, you’re on the hook forever. Teach them how to debug, you’re needed less and less.
by Swizec 4y ago
Show a person the bug, you’re on the hook forever. Teach them how to debug, you’re needed less and less.
- deathanatos 4y agoEasier said than done, I've found. "Check the logs." is a statement I have to utter far too often. Admittedly, when I started at the present company, I also remarked "this logging tool [Sumologic] is pretty difficult to use". The response from my senior engineer at the time was "it really isn't that hard." and then she didn't answer the question I had and made me figure it out on my own. It felt a bit brusque at the time, but it was very useful in the long run. I did end up figuring out how to query Sumo (I still maintain that its UI is gawd awful), and that's enabled so much debugging. I think I also ended up authoring our internal documentation's page on how to effectively query in Sumo, which I feel has been read never.