Joyful Programming
John GallagherHelping Engineers Understand Their Ruby on Rails Apps and Reduce Time To Resolution Of Incidents.
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Five Principles for Joyful Observability
Today, I’ll talk about a hands-on session coaching session with Petro Yakubiv, the founder-developer of a Rails-based restaurant app called Menutaria.
Over our two-hour Zoom deep dive, we tackled the big problem of how to add observability...
Stay Focussed When Debugging Production Issues - The 'Fact Bucket' Method
The Challenge: Information Overload During Debugging
Debugging a live production issue, tracing nils through Rails controllers, or untangling a domain model can leave my brain scattered in twenty directions. Especially given I’m neur...
The Essential Guide to Structured Logging: Best Practices and Benefits
What is Structured Logging?
Structured logging is the application of a consistent format to logs, allowing them to be treating as data sets which can be easily searched and analysed, giving insights into application behaviour.
Struc...
How Structured Logging in Rails Reduced Our Downtime by 98%
The Problem
The following is based on true story. Names have been changed to protect the innocent.
I'm on call. It's a Friday afternoon and I get a Slack notification:
Okay. Looks like password reset emails aren't working:
OK fine, l...
Kill The Three Pillars
The three pillars of observability are bullshit.
There, I said it.
Normally I'm a lot more nuanced about things.
Normally I don't swear.
But today?
I've got a bit more time for these things.
The idea that you'll be able to understand...
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I'm a Joyful Programming Coach who specialises in improving observability in Ruby on Rails apps. I've spent 20 years honing my software engineering skills and I'm here to pass on my knowledge to the next generation.
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