The Anti-Heisenberg Principle: A Diagnostics Manifesto

https://bespoken.tools/blog/2016/11/28/diagnostics-manifesto

by jpkdc • 10 years ago

42 7 10 years ago

fdraines• 10 years ago

Clearly given a lot of thought to an often overlooked aspect of programming.

lafar6502• 10 years ago

one thing is missing in the list: a time machine - the system should capture verbose information about events occuring before the error - all these DEBUG/INFO messages you usually disable in production. Without that you have to change the log level and try to repeat the error condition. And dont go too far, or you'll end up with a cluster of log aggregation machines just for collecting the logs from one application. Like 'logstash/kibana' behemoth ;)

medains• 10 years ago

If you log all payloads now your logs are subject to DPA and possibly also PCI - potential security fail.

nitrogen• 10 years ago

That was one thing I noticed as well; selective logging of request parameters is safer, but requires more effort.

tomcam• 10 years ago

What are DPA and PCI?

nradov• 10 years ago

And HIPAA privacy regulations for PHI/PII, if you're dealing with healthcare data.

The Anti-Heisenberg Principle: A Diagnostics Manifesto

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