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How the Snapshot Debugger helps debug production code

How the Snapshot Debugger helps debug production code

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How the Snapshot Debugger helps debug production code

- [Instructor] Quickly diagnosing and fixing issues that only manifest in production is one of the hardest tasks you may face when developing cloud scale apps. In production environments, detecting and diagnosing an issue can be costly in times of time and resources. Experienced programmers know that the customary way to determine the trouble source is to look through thousands of log files, a necessary yet time-intense and frustrating activity. Here's a short list of other challenges that appear when troubleshooting a production application. A common shortcoming is that issues may not reproduce on the local developer computer. A production environment is a lot more complex than a development environment. In many cases, the app is running at a larger scale across many data centers, and it stores real data in the production database. Why does it fail? The possibilities are endless. It's possible the varying configuration sets between production and dev are causing subtle issues. Also…

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