Re:“It's The Future”
by marcosdumay on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @10:15AM
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That's true, but...
You don't debug distributed systems by tracing into remote calls and jumping into remote code. You debug it by comparing requests and responses (you use discrete operations, right) with the specified requests and responses, and then opening the code that has a problem¹.
It calls for completely different tooling, not for a "better debugger".
1 - Or the specs, because yes, now that your system is distributed you also have to debug the specs. Why somebody would decide on doing that for no reason at all? Yet lots of people do.
You don't debug distributed systems by tracing into remote calls and jumping into remote code. You debug it by comparing requests and responses (you use discrete operations, right) with the specified requests and responses, and then opening the code that has a problem¹.
It calls for completely different tooling, not for a "better debugger".
1 - Or the specs, because yes, now that your system is distributed you also have to debug the specs. Why somebody would decide on doing that for no reason at all? Yet lots of people do.