Debugging Java and Scala

For engineers, architects, and DevOps teams, distributed architectures and reactive applications make pinpointing and fixing production errors in Java and Scala code an increasingly difficult task. In this hands-on, practical video, JVM and debugging expert Tal Weiss reviews the practices Java and Scala developers can use to spot, profile and correct production application issues. He provides a set of advanced techniques that can be put to immediate use for quickly profiling and debugging live servers, and resolving critical errors without impacting performance.

• Review the pros and cons of production debugging using JDK, APM, Log, and Metrics tools
• Discover the importance of injecting state into JVM threads when debugging behavior and performance
• Explore advanced capabilities of jstack and Hotspot debugging tools
• Explore the components, advantages, and disadvantages of JVM debugging architecture
• Create advanced debugging and monitoring functions, using advanced Bytecode instrumentation techniques for both Java and Scala applications
• Write Java agents to profile and collect root cause state from production JVMs
• Wire your Java agents into your DevOps infrastructure using industry DevOps protocols
• Discover the JVM Tooling Interface – the JVM’s lowest level of native API

Tal Weiss builds JVM production debugging tools for high-scale applications. He is CEO at Takipi and was co-founder/CEO at VisualTao (acquired by Autodesk). He’s been designing scalable, real-time Java and C++ applications for 15 years. Tal blogs at blog.takipi.com.