Question for programmers re “Show me your flowchart and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowchart; it'll be obvious." -- Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man Month (1975) Where do logs fit in this idea?
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You're honestly sometimes better off with a tool like strafe, which shows the actual system calls an app is making to the OS, at the cost of a slightly lower abstraction level
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depends on who wrote the log lines
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in dev, quite a bit. In production, not much.
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There's logs the pop culture concept and logs the computer science concept. Which do you mean? Jay Kreps (Kafka / Confluent) is the go to grey on logs the computer science concept. In particular, logs as system architecture building block, which is on point.
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Properly employed, logs can recover the whole system. (Yes, I'm taking about "event sourcing".)
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Logs are the most important thing. I spend a disproportionate amount of time troubleshooting customer installations I don't have direct access to. I fucking pull my hair out as they exhaust every magical bit of fiddling before they let me pull logs and say exactly what it is.
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"Logs is how it works" - Steve Jobs
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