Why Minimal Test Cases Matter Debugging is faster when you’re not digging through a mountain of code. A minimal test case clears the noise. It gives you a clean lens to focus on only what breaks. Strip everything else away, and you’re left with something that either works or fails in a straight line. When […]
Why Debugging is Entering a New Era The Speed of Development Has a Cost Modern development cycles are faster than ever. With rapid iteration, CI/CD, and shorter release windows, bugs aren’t just likely they’re inevitable. Faster shipping means more room for error Short sprints often leave limited time for debugging Teams need tools that catch
Why Binary Search Isn’t Just for Sorted Arrays Binary search is one of those simple but powerful ideas that sticks with you once you get it. At the core, it works like this: take a sorted list, look at the middle, and decide which half to ignore. Repeat until you find what you’re after or
Getting Clear on What “Full Stack Debugging” Really Means Debugging today isn’t just about chasing broken CSS or tracing null errors in your backend. With modern systems spanning browsers, APIs, databases, third party services, and even serverless functions, bugs can crop up anywhere and ripple everywhere. Full stack debugging means seeing the whole picture: frontend
What Code Instrumentation Actually Is Instrumentation means adding extra code not to change your app’s functionality, but to observe it. Think logs, counters, spans, metrics. It’s how you read what your app is actually doing when things go wrong (or right). Instead of guessing why a service is misbehaving, instrumentation tells you, in real time
Start with Visibility, Not Panic When bugs appear, your first instinct might be to jump straight into fixing mode but that can lead to missed details and wasted effort. The first step in professional triage is always visibility. Log Everything Before acting, document every bug you encounter. Whether it’s reported by QA, found in production,
Why Speed Matters More Than Ever in 2026 In 2026, downtime doesn’t just interrupt it costs. Outages rack up real time losses in revenue, customer trust, and team morale. It’s not just enterprise scale platforms under pressure, either. Today’s users expect smooth, stable experiences whether they’re on a billion dollar tool or a side project
What a Stack Trace Really Tells You At its core, a stack trace is a post mortem log of a program’s failure. It shows you the exact trail of function calls that led to an error, starting from the program’s entry point and ending at the crash site. Think of it as a real time
What Garbage Collection Actually Does Memory management is one of those low level details most developers don’t think about until something breaks. At a basic level, every application allocates memory when it creates objects or variables, and that memory has to be released when it’s no longer needed. Languages like C demand you do this
Where Debugging Stood Before AI Got Involved Debugging used to be a grind. Developers leaned hard on logs, breakpoints, and a lot of manual trial and error. You’d add print statements, recompile, reload then stare at console output for hours trying to spot the bug hiding in the weeds. Breakpoints helped, sure, but stepping through