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As an external consultant every time I see this scenario it’s always a group that is too busy digging with shovels to learn how to operate the backhoe. Literal

As an external consultant every time I see this scenario it’s always a group that is too busy digging with shovels to learn how to operate the backhoe. Literally just last week I was showing several dev teams how to cut days out of their troubleshooting time by using an APM that can capture debug snapshots from production. Combine with source indexing during builds and code versioned with the Git commit id and you can jump to the line of code with the issue in about a minute. You’ll see the stack variables and everything. This is possible even in a distributed microservices monstrosity. It takes like a day to wire this up. “We’re too busy for that today, there’s an issue in production!”

plugin-baby 4y ago
What’s an APM? Bingle are not helping.
- adrienthebo 4y ago
  Application performance monitoring (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_performance_management?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_performance_manage...)
- JudsonStevens 4y ago
  APM generally stands for Application Performance Monitoring - an example is DataDogs APM module[1]. 1 - https://www.datadoghq.com/product/apm/ https://www.datadoghq.com/product/apm/
bottlepalm 4y ago
The millions of lines of tech debt combined with the pace our company moves and volumes (high tech manufacturing) would blow your mind. It’s thunder dome.
brundolf 4y ago
Yeah. I think many or most large established codebases/software stacks could be an order of magnitude or two simpler (making them an order of magnitude or two easier to iterate on, in terms of both time and number of devs needed) But the reality we've discovered is that there's a constant gravitational force pulling most dev orgs to keep increasing complexity, forever, much faster than the actual product increases in complexity. We can avoid this at the individual level, maybe the team level, but at this point it feels unavoidable at the company or industry level

plugin-baby 4y ago

What’s an APM? Bingle are not helping.

adrienthebo 4y ago
Application performance monitoring (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_performance_management?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_performance_manage...)
JudsonStevens 4y ago
APM generally stands for Application Performance Monitoring - an example is DataDogs APM module[1]. 1 - https://www.datadoghq.com/product/apm/ https://www.datadoghq.com/product/apm/

bottlepalm 4y ago

The millions of lines of tech debt combined with the pace our company moves and volumes (high tech manufacturing) would blow your mind. It’s thunder dome.

brundolf 4y ago

Yeah. I think many or most large established codebases/software stacks could be an order of magnitude or two simpler (making them an order of magnitude or two easier to iterate on, in terms of both time and number of devs needed) But the reality we've discovered is that there's a constant gravitational force pulling most dev orgs to keep increasing complexity, forever, much faster than the actual product increases in complexity. We can avoid this at the individual level, maybe the team level, but at this point it feels unavoidable at the company or industry level