Archive - Joyful Programming

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…

Jun 14 •

December 2024

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…

Dec 7, 2024 •

September 2024

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.

Sep 23, 2024 •

July 2024

Kill The Three Pillars

Traces, logs and metrics. The three pillars of observability? Nonsense.

Jul 9, 2024 •

June 2024

What's a wide context aware event?

Instead of "three pillars" I'm a big fan of context aware events. But what are they?

Jun 20, 2024 •

Why I Help Teams With Observability

Because I want to help eradicate poverty. Delusional? Possibly.

Jun 2, 2024 •

May 2024

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.

May 9, 2024 •

April 2024

July 2023

The SOLID Edition

SOLID is pretty old now. Are there newer alternatives that are more relevant? Let's examine three.

Jul 16, 2023 •

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