Re:Don't Look Down on Print Debugging
by waitforit on Saturday November 23, 2024 @10:36AM
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> The thing is, in interpreted languages land print debugging has a power no debugger gives you: live debugging on your production instance.
Remote debugging is a thing that exists.
With modern js stacks being somewhat compiled anyway, and the backend often being C# or Java I don't think that case is very applicable. Not to mention developers logging on production servers and making whatever changes they want being a huge red flag.
Re:Don't Look Down on Print Debugging
by plorkyeran on Saturday November 23, 2024 @01:55PM
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If you can ssh into one of your production nodes and modify the code to add some logging, you can also attach a debugger to your production node.
Something is broken in prod, you cannot reproduce it in your test environment because you think it may be due to a config (some signing keys maybe) you can't check. And it looks like someone forgot to put logs around whatever is the problem.
You can either: spend multiple hours trying to reproduce and maybe find the cause. Or take 5mn, bash into one of your nodes, add some logging live and have a result right now: either you have your culprit or your hunch is false.