Tools and Product Features to Troubleshoot Environments
Understand how to use design principles, monitoring tools, and workflow checkers to diagnose and resolve environmental issues in software applications. Learn how to abstract external interactions, monitor dependencies, and verify configuration effects to improve debugging efficiency.
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In this lesson, we’ll explore a list of design strategies, tools, and features that can help us narrow down environmental issues better.
Design strategies
Typically, one can think of a software module as being made of two parts. The first part fetches or writes data using APIs that talk to external entities, and the second part processes or collects data that is to be used for making these external calls. Designing an interface that abstracts the component that talks to the external entity is usually good. This clear distinction makes it easy to narrow down, monitor, and even test individual components. When debugging an issue, if we have narrowed down the issue to a subcomponent around a particular module, we can test the mock of the external entity’s interface and make it behave very closely to the one where a bug is seen and verify the ...