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Stay Focussed When Debugging Production Issues - The 'Fact Bucket' Method
As a software engineer with ADHD, I've developed a technique to help me stay focussed when debugging production issues and asking questions. It's called…
 • John Gallagher
The Essential Guide to Structured Logging: Best Practices and Benefits
Discover best practices and benefits of structured logging to understand your app. Practical insights and strategies on how to implement structured…
 • John Gallagher
How Structured Logging in Rails Reduced Our Downtime by 98%
Introducing the Five Steps To Observable Software - better understand your Rails app in production whilst slashing time to resolution.
 • John Gallagher
Kill The Three Pillars
Traces, logs and metrics. The three pillars of observability? Nonsense.
 • John Gallagher
What's a wide context aware event?
Instead of "three pillars" I'm a big fan of context aware events. But what are they?
 • John Gallagher
Why I Help Teams With Observability
Because I want to help eradicate poverty. Delusional? Possibly.
 • John Gallagher
Visualising Sidekiq Jobs With Flame Graphs
Visualising Sidekiq Jobs using traces is essential for production apps. Flame Graphs and traces are powerful tools. Let's use them.
 • John Gallagher
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Helping Engineers Understand Their Ruby on Rails Apps and Reduce Time To Resolution Of Incidents.
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