On: Stack Traces Are Underrated

[piva00]

Hard to break into the debugger for a production application running on hundreds of servers.

[Cthulhu_ → piva00]

One can argue whether stack traces should be enabled for production (at least on all servers) given they're relatively expensive to create. Which isn't a problem if they're exceptional, but in a lot of cases they aren't.

[xmcqdpt2 → Cthulhu_]

They aren’t equally expensive everywhere. They are cheap on the JVM.

[TinkersW → piva00]

Perhaps, but remote debugging is a thing, though triggering an auto break into debugger would be more complex.

[piva00 → TinkersW]

Remote debugging is a thing but not very practical when you have hundreds of instances of your application running across dozens/hundreds of servers.

For smaller scale apps it's a godsend but I haven't worked in that environment in more than a decade so remote debugging is essentially useless in my work.