If you are forced to take memory dumps to debug your database-backed application, or lock things to write out a line to a logfile, you are probably doing everyt

If you are forced to take memory dumps to debug your database-backed application, or lock things to write out a line to a logfile, you are probably doing everything wrong. This reflects more on Jeff Atwood's poor choice of technology than problems with logfiles. "nobody looks forward to mining a gigabyte of log files for useful diagnostic information"? This is the problem with the Microsoft mindset. grep -C and less -S are your friends.