Debugging distributed systems
Channel: Java User Group Switzerland
Date: 2021-09-05

Speaker: Bert Jan Schrijver
Recorded: 2021-09-02

00:00:00 Intro
00:01:36 Talk
1:16:45 Q&A

Nowadays, most software projects are distributed systems: components are located on different networked computers which communicate and coordinate their actions by passing messages.

Debugging distributed systems is not easy. When two components don’t play nice together, the cause could be virtually anything: software, DNS, routing, firewalls, proxies, load balancers, TLS.. and more!

In this talk, I’ll share my experience with debugging distributed systems. We’ll look at typical issues and share ways to debug those issues and find their root causes. We’ll dive into networking, infrastructure, logging/tracing/metrics, testing, remote debugging and more. I’ll share lots of examples and war stories along the way. After this talk, you’ll have the practical knowledge on how and where to get started with debugging distributed systems yourself!

Bert Jan is CTO at OpenValue and focuses on Java, software architecture, Continuous Delivery and DevOps. Bert Jan is a Java Champion, JavaOne Rock Star speaker, Duke's Choice Award winner and leads NLJUG, the Dutch Java User Group. He loves to share his experience by speaking at conferences, writing for the Dutch Java magazine and helping out Devoxx4Kids with teaching kids how to code. Bert Jan is easily reachable on

Twitter: @bjschrijver

Organized by: Java User Group Switzerland
https://www.jug.ch/