I’m switching the gears a bit at work and instead of working on databases, I’ll be working on a new internal developer tool for making sense of some timeseries data. That is what has been on my mind this week. Essentially I’m making a debugging tool. What’s the bar for a successful debugging tool? At least it must be better than printf. There are endless articles where experienced engineers admit that they debug software by inserting printf calls instead of reaching for a debugger lik...
