Hi!
In my quest of becoming the best Elixir dev I can be, I saw one aspect in my
career that I’d like to improve upon. This is language agnostic, but since
Elixir has an awesome community, I’m sure you’d be able to help, specially
since you may have experience with distributed systems and logging in those can
only be crazier.
So, have you read/studied material on how to log/review logs?
This is somewhat related to debugging and you have parallels with other
professions as well. This is not only for programmers. Forensic accounting
comes to mind when dealing with multiple information sources and trying to
piece things together.
I believe it’s an art, to review logs, build a timeline, know how things work
from the logs themselves. I think folks learn over time, but it is such a
powerful weapon that I see the best ones have. I have not found good material
on it and was wondering if you could help me with this.
This goes hand in hand with debugging in a way. I’ve seen josevalim
on Twitch
and picked up a ton of little things that people just don’t really talk about,
not by malice by any means, just seems like these “things” have to be learned
over time. Well, they add up and knowing them + using them as tools is life
changing. I guess that’s what you call experience…
I do think there is a systematic approach that many of the best share. Maybe
folks don’t even know about, or they do and I don’t know about it so I thought
I should ask.
Thanks for the help in advance!
Paulo
PS:
Here are a couple of resources that I think are related to this. Sorry if I’m not too clear, maybe your answers can help me focus my questions better.
Reverse engineering example:
I found a debugging book, unsure if would help with this, but it may: