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Production Debugging
What to do when shits on fire
josh_robb
April 09, 2014
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Transcript
Production Debugging
Production Debugging What to do when shit’s on fire
Me @josh_robb Code Nanny @ Pushpay.com “We’re Hiring” (tm)
Overview Context Tools Demos Wrap-up
Context OODA - John Boyd
OODA - Observe - Orient - Decide - Act
Stressful situations Getting shot at in an aeroplane Fuck that
Getting shot at full stop! Flying a helicopter with no engine
How to train for stress?
How to train for stress?
None
Emotions Denial Fear Anxiety Fatigue (not an emotion - related)
Bad Judgement All of these things lead to poor quality
decision making.
What would NPH Do? First do no harm!
Don’t make things worse Evaluate your options - Can you
roll back? - Can you get a new job? - Can you roll forward?
MTTR Optimize for Mean Time To Recovery!
Don’t roll back in fear Roll forward to victory -
Etsy
Failure If you work somewhere failure is unacceptable (Apart from
Avionics or medical gear) Get a new job Seriously Failure in Tech is unavoidable Learn from it
Postmortems Postmortems are important Blameless ones are best http://codeascraft.com/2012/05/22/blameless- postmortems/
Demo Scenarios - Two of them - In one app
- Introducing
BrokenApp
BrokenApp Two Scenarios - Hang - Hi CPU
Tools - Process tools - Tracing Tools - Dump analysis
Tools - Process tools - Orient - Tracing Tools -
Observe - Dump analysis - Decide - ACT?
Process Tools Windows Server 2012/2008 - Resource Monitor! Also -
Task Manager - Process Explorer - Procmon
Process Tools Demo
Tracing Tools Perfview - Process sampling tool - Great for
what's happening over time? - Live profiling
Perfview XCopy deployable Offline analysis #FTW NOTE: Enable ASP.NET tracing
(DSIM) Demo!
Tracing Tools Message analyzer - Network traffic - Packet sniffing
Dump Analysis - Windbg (for masochists these days)
windbg
windbg - yeah - no - just say no -
debugdiag FTW!