A while ago I was working on a project where a background job was being triggered every few seconds or so. This job would call a method on a service, that connected to a remote backend, that was regularly unavailable. When the backend was down, the logs would be flooded with long stacktraces every few […]
Logging to the syslog from a java application
Every application needs logging, it can help you during development and when debugging those annoying things that do not work in production. One question is where to put the logging events. All linux servers use a system log to log events that take place on the operating system level. You can find logs for the kernel, […]