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How to debug memory usage of a JVM-based application
What do you do when your JVM-based application gets OOM killed or exhibits wild memory usage pattern? In this blog post, I will explore some tools and concepts we can use to start debugging this problem.
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Monte Carlo Power Analysis
Take advantage of computing power and empirical data to use Monte Carlo simulation to perform experiment power analysis.
How to use Charles Proxy to rewrite HTTPS traffic for web applications
Charles Proxy is an application that sits between your computer and the Internet to record HTTP(S) traffic. Most importantly for me, it has the ability to also modify a server’s HTTP response. I’ve been using Charles over the past few weeks to rewrite responses from our APIs and I’ve been slowly learning what Charles is capable of but also what it isn’t. Needless to say, there’s still a lot to learn, but the defining moment for me was when I was able to recreate a production bug, by replaying the JSON payloads to my local development server causing the same error to be raised.
How to Experiment Rapidly Without Losing Rigour
As data scientists at Deliveroo we evaluate our work via robust experimentation, and we take a frequentist hypothesis testing approach. The standard method places a lot of importance on deciding upfront how large an impact we believe any experiment might have. If the estimated impact is very different to the actual impact, we might waste a lot of time running an experiment where we could have obtained a result sooner. This means that we can’t iterate and innovate as quickly as we would like. Our preferred solution to this problem is sequential experiment designs.
Other Articles
- Testing with Third Party Services in Go
- Building a Payments Lambda with Terraform
- Optimising a simple ActiveRecord query
- How to migrate your API and still be friends with your fellow client developers
- What does an Engineering Manager do at Deliveroo?
- Application Deployment at Deliveroo
- Migrating from Buddybuild to Bitrise
- Interning at Deliveroo
- How to introduce Kotlin in your codebase
- How do we interview engineers at Deliveroo?
- Reset, Rebase Workflow
- Tired of waiting for pull request reviews? Play Pull Request Roulette
- Improving Password Security
- Determinating a Scavenger Hunt
- Data Sink
- How to un-rickroll yourself
- “I assess quality……therefore I am”