I neglect writing good loggers. I need someone to write a good Hitchhiker's Guide to logging well.
Yea. It's also tough to learn good patterns though, because use of logs and writing logging code is separated by a lot of time and code. That's why I think there is room for a best practices guide that accretes lessons.
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So there's a lot to decompress here. I think logging is particularly helpful in environments where there's a potential for error. I've always thought that logs should be stories of a transaction and in the happy-path, you see a successful transaction's lifecycle.
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In the unhappy one, there's a lot to be learned about why wasn't happy. For scientific computing, I think this is difficult to glean. For web programming, it's super useful.
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