Debugging Go

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

Natalie & Ian welcome Liran Haimovitch & Tiago Queiroz to the show for a discussion focused on debugging Go programs. They cover good & bad debugging practices, the difficulty of debugging in the cloud, the value of errors logs & metrics, the practice of debugging in production (or not) & much more!

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Featuring:

• Liran Haimovitch – GitHub, X
• Tiago Queiroz – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
• Ian Lopshire – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Chương

1. Opener (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Sourcegraph (00:00:41)

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3. It's Go Time! (00:03:05)

4. Welcoming our guests (again) (00:03:49)

5. Good and bad debugging practices (00:07:01)

6. Debugging in the cloud (00:11:08)

7. Sponsor: Honeycomb (00:17:25)

https://honeycomb.io/changelog

8. The value of error logs (00:18:58)

9. The value of metrics (00:24:44)

10. Debugging in production? (00:29:30)

11. Monitoring tools aren't for debugging (00:31:28)

12. Back to logging: levels & labels (00:34:43)

13. How and where to begin debugging (00:41:18)

14. It's time for Unpopular Opinions! (00:44:31)

15. Liran's unpop (00:44:58)

16. Tiago's unpop (00:47:27)

17. Natalie's unpop (00:49:22)

18. Liran's REAL unpopular opinion (00:49:52)

19. Time to go! (00:51:31)

20. Outro (00:52:00)