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Jan 5, 2026 • 21 min read

Debugging Distributed Systems: A Complete Guide for Small Teams

Practical, budget-friendly strategies for small teams to monitor, trace, and debug distributed systems using metrics, logs, traces, and AI tools.

Terry Osayawe

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Jan 2, 2026 • 16 min read

Production Debugging: When to Use Logs vs. Live Breakpoints

Choose logs to trace event history and use live non-breaking breakpoints to inspect real-time state; combine both to debug production with minimal impact.

Terry Osayawe

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Dec 31, 2025 • 16 min read

How to Debug Production APIs Without Logs

Use distributed tracing, live breakpoints, and AI anomaly detection to debug production APIs without logs, cut MTTR, and pinpoint root causes.

Terry Osayawe

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Dec 29, 2025 • 13 min read

Debugging Latency Issues Without Redeploying

Use live debugging and AI-driven observability to identify and fix production latency without redeploying, capturing real-time traces, variables, and flame graphs.

Terry Osayawe

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Dec 26, 2025 • 17 min read

Live Breakpoints vs. Traditional Debugging

Compare live breakpoints and traditional debugging: learn how runtime snapshots let you debug production safely without redeploys or major performance impact.

Terry Osayawe

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Dec 24, 2025 • 19 min read

Best Practices for Real-Time Metrics in Microservices

Practical guide to instrumenting, collecting, tracing, and alerting real-time metrics in microservices—naming, dashboards, SLOs, and scaling.

Terry Osayawe

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Dec 23, 2025 • 19 min read

Distributed Tracing for Root Cause Analysis

Map requests across microservices to locate latency and root causes. Use traces, spans, and OpenTelemetry best practices to reduce MTTD and MTTR.

Terry Osayawe

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Dec 12, 2025 • 9 min read

The Real Cost of the Guess-and-Redeploy Cycle (And How to Break It)

How guess-and-redeploy inflates costs, hurts reliability, and wastes developer time — and how production-safe debugging, live breakpoints, and AI observability stop it.

Terry Osayawe

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Dec 10, 2025 • 15 min read

Top 6 Anomaly Detection Tools for Small Development Teams

Compare six affordable, easy-to-integrate anomaly detection tools for small development teams, focusing on setup speed, real-time alerts, integrations, and pricing.

Terry Osayawe

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