Comments on: Canaries in the coal mine

By: John "Z-Bo" Zabroski

John "Z-Bo" Zabroski — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:06:31 +0000

Does it really take a decade to reach CMM level 5?

By: » Code complete doesn’t mean you’re done

» Code complete doesn’t mean you’re done — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:07:05 +0000

[...] our messaging system so that operations folks have enough info at runtime to do their jobs. We need canaries in the coal mine to inform us when things are going wrong, and for that we need better metrics and reporting built [...]

By: » Dead Programs Tell No Tales (or “We don’t need no stinkin’ error handling!”)

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:46:44 +0000

[...] logs, naturally, were huge with debugging turned on. Application logging is largely useless, anyway, without a plan to use it. And without a debug statement prefixing every line of code, [...]

By: » Terracotta Server as a Message Bus

» Terracotta Server as a Message Bus — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:02:27 +0000

[...] got our canaries in the coal mine, so we see what the entire system is doing in real time. We’re happy to see that our memory [...]