Shai Almog

@talktotheduck

Yak Barber, duck whisperer, hunter of bugs, feeder of dogs, heap climber, stack explorer and rider of shells

Joined September 2021

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Developer Advocate @ Lightrun, co-founder @ Codename One. Java Rockstar, open source hacker, blogger and author with ~30 years of professional programming experience.

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Conference Speaking, Guest Posting, General help to fellow developers.

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SAShai Almogtalktotheduck.devAug 29, 2022 · 8 min read

Migrating Monoliths to Microservices in Practice

There have been amazing articles on the subjects of migrating from a monolith to a microservice architecture e.g. this is probably one of the better examples. The benefits and drawbacks of the architectures should be pretty clear. I want to talk abou...

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SAShai Almogtalktotheduck.devJul 31, 2022 · 5 min read

Debugging a Wordle Bug

I have a confession: I'm addicted to Wordle. Especially now that it's out of style and people don't post about it. I love that it's short, I can solve one word and then it's gone. I don't feel too bad about the addiction and wasting my time with a ga...

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SAShai Almogtalktotheduck.devJul 26, 2022 · 8 min read

External Debugging Tools 4: Debug the JVM Using jhsdb

Java 9 was all about modules. It was the big change and also the most problematic change. It sucked the air out of every other feature that shipped as part of that release. Unfortunately, one victim of this vacuum was jhsdb which is a complex tool to...

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SAShai Almogtalktotheduck.devJul 21, 2022 · 6 min read

External Debugging Tools 3: JMXTerm

When tracking a bug we need to take a two pronged approach. Similar to tongs that wrap the buggy module from both sides and squeezes to find the problematic part. Up until now we discussed tools that are very low level. Some can be used to debug syst...

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SAShai Almogtalktotheduck.devJul 12, 2022 · 5 min read

Understand the Root Cause of Regressions with Git Bisect

In this series I cover a lot of magical tools and git bisect is probably the best example of such magic. The hardest part in debugging is knowing the general area of the bug, bisect literally shines a light on the specific commit that caused it! Bef...

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Migrating Monoliths to Microservices in Practice

Debugging a Wordle Bug

External Debugging Tools 4: Debug the JVM Using jhsdb

External Debugging Tools 3: JMXTerm

Understand the Root Cause of Regressions with Git Bisect

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Shai Almog

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Shai Almog's blogs

Recently published

Migrating Monoliths to Microservices in Practice

Debugging a Wordle Bug

External Debugging Tools 4: Debug the JVM Using jhsdb

External Debugging Tools 3: JMXTerm

Understand the Root Cause of Regressions with Git Bisect