A Guide to Learning Software Trace and Log Analysis Patterns

Dmitry Vostokov

Diagnostician. The Author of Diagnomicon.

I founded the pattern-oriented software diagnostics discipline (Systematic Software Diagnostics) and Software Diagnostics Institute (DA+TA: DumpAnalysis.org + TraceAnalysis.org), authored more than 50 books on software diagnostics, anomaly detection and analysis, software and memory forensics, root cause analysis and problem solving, memory dump analysis, debugging, software trace and log analysis, reverse engineering and malware analysis. I have more than 25 years of experience in software architecture, design, development, and maintenance in a variety of industries including leadership, technical and people management roles. In my spare time, I explore the mathematical and computer science foundations of Theoretical Software Diagnostics, application of formal logic, artificial intelligence, machine learning and data mining to diagnostics and anomaly detection, Software Narratology, its further development as Narratology of Things and Diagnostics of Things (DoT), Software Pathology, and Quantum Software Diagnostics. My practical focus is on software diagnostics engineering and diagnostics-driven development, diagnostics workflow and interaction. Recent interest areas also include cloud native computing, security, automation, functional programming, applications of category theory to software development and big data, and diagnostics of artificial intelligence.