nswbmw/node-in-debugging

Features

• Node.js Debuggers - Provides a comprehensive guide to connecting debuggers to active Node.js processes for variable inspection and breakpoint management.
• Promise Specification Implementations - Implements a custom asynchronous state machine following the Promise/A+ specification to manage fulfilled and rejected chains.
• Differential - Provides methods for generating differential flame graphs to isolate performance regressions by comparing two CPU sampling snapshots.
• Asynchronous Stack Trace Reconstruction - Reconstructs calling chains across asynchronous boundaries to recover lost context in callbacks and promises.
• Asynchronous Stack Reconstruction - Implements techniques for recreating continuous call stacks across asynchronous execution boundaries to resolve timing and concurrency issues.
• Process Attachment - Details how to connect a debugger to a running process via PID or port without restarting the application.
• Runtime Debugging - Provides guidance on connecting processes to web-based debuggers for real-time variable inspection and stepping.
• CPU Profilers - Provides CPU profiling tools to detect expensive functions and highlight processor hotspots using flame graphs.
• Node.js Debugging Guides - Serves as a comprehensive technical manual for diagnosing and resolving errors, memory leaks, and performance issues in Node.js applications.
• Runtime Performance Profiling - Provides methods for analyzing CPU bottlenecks and memory leaks using flame graphs, heap snapshots, and profiling tools.
• Node.js Native Addons - Offers technical guidance on building high-performance native extensions using Rust and maintaining ABI stability.
• Rust Native Extensions - Details the process of building high-performance native extensions using Rust and calling external libraries.
• Node.js Performance Analysis - Provides a guide to profiling CPU usage and analyzing flame graphs to identify execution bottlenecks.
• Asynchronous Tracing - Implements methods for mapping asynchronous call stacks and analyzing event loop behavior to debug complex promise chains.
• Execution Context Tracking - Implements methods for associating operation IDs with request contexts to track logical execution flows across asynchronous boundaries.
• Heap Graph Snapshot Analyzers - Details the analysis of heap snapshots and object allocation chains to locate and resolve memory leaks.
• Distributed Tracing - Provides techniques for tracking requests across distributed systems using spans and timestamps to visualize transaction execution paths.
• System Usage Monitoring - Guides the monitoring of CPU and memory usage and the automatic generation of profile dumps upon threshold breach.
• Application Health Monitors - Guides the tracking of throughput, request URLs, and error rates to monitor overall application health.
• Node.js Memory Diagnostics - Provides instructions for capturing and analyzing heap snapshots and core dumps to resolve memory leaks.
• Observability Pipelines - Details the setup of observability pipelines including distributed tracing, centralized logging, and monitoring dashboards.
• Application Performance Profiling - Provides techniques for analyzing event loop delays and CPU usage to identify performance bottlenecks.
• Real-time Performance Monitoring - Provides real-time tracking of CPU load, memory usage, and slow HTTP requests to monitor system performance.
• Request Performance Metrics - Explains how to collect timing and count data for API endpoints and store it in time-series databases.
• Time-Series Performance Metrics - Details the collection of throughput and error rates into time-series databases for real-time performance monitoring.
• Flame Graph Generators - Includes utilities for converting stack trace data into interactive flame graphs to pinpoint performance degradation.
• Async Context Trackers - Associates asynchronous operation IDs with request contexts to track single request flows across multiple hops.
• Flame Graph Visualizers - Captures system-level CPU samples to visualize function-level hotspots and identify performance bottlenecks.
• Promise Implementations - Guides the implementation of standard-compliant promise functionality following the Promise/A+ specification.
• Promise/A+ Compliant Implementations - Provides a technical implementation of the Promise/A+ specification using custom asynchronous state machines.
• Stack Trace Capture - Records exceptions and aggregates them with associated stack traces and surrounding source code for detailed debugging.
• Baseline-Comparison Profiling - Generates differential flame graphs to highlight changes in CPU usage between different code versions.
• Process-Level Auto-Restarts - Integrates module-level hot reloading with a process supervisor to automatically restart the process when source files change.
• Plugin Creation - Guides the creation of native modules using stable application binary interfaces to ensure compatibility across runtime versions.
• Rust Extensions - Provides technical guidance for building high-performance native extensions using Rust and safe bindings.
• Bytecode-to-Source Mapping - Maps compiled bytecode execution steps back to original source code lines for integrated debugging.
• File-Change-Triggered Restarts - Provides a workflow to automatically restart debugging sessions when file changes are detected by a process monitor.
• Memory Dump Parsers - Guides the use of memory dump parsers to identify object instances and trace references in core dumps.
• Conditional Breakpoints - Describes the use of conditional breakpoints to pause execution based on logical expressions or hit counts.
• Live Process Memory Snapshots - Describes how to generate core dump files of a running process memory and state without a restart.
• Foreign Function Interfaces - Enables invoking functions from dynamic link libraries to execute native code without full module wrappers.
• Hot Module Reloading - Implements a proxy-based module reloading system to update exported object properties in real-time.
• Hot Module Reloaders - Provides a mechanism to update exported object properties in real-time by wrapping them in proxies and refreshing the module cache.
• Execution Analysis - Allows tracking how asynchronous tasks move through execution phases to resolve runtime timing issues.
• V8 Log Converters - Provides tools to parse raw V8 execution logs to identify CPU bottlenecks across code layers.
• Parallel Promise Coordination - Explains how to execute multiple promises concurrently and resolve them collectively using native Node.js capabilities.
• Promise Racing - Covers the implementation and use of promise racing to handle the fastest responding asynchronous operation.
• Regular Expression Profilers - Identifies CPU-intensive regex backtracking by analyzing process snapshots to locate problematic patterns.
• Runtime Execution Analysis - Evaluates how language constructs and engine updates impact execution speed and memory usage.
• Promise-Based Chains - Describes the mechanism for creating sequential asynchronous task chains using promise then and catch handlers.
• Optimization Analysis - Detects functions that failed to optimize or were de-optimized by the V8 engine.
• Source Map Resolution - Provides methods to translate compiled execution offsets back to original source files using source maps for readable stack traces.
• Stack Frame Filtering - Implements call stack filtering to remove third-party and core module frames, highlighting project-specific code.
• Custom Logic Spans - Allows manual definition of spans and metadata tags to record specific work units within application logic.
• Centralized Logging Systems - Enables the collection and indexing of distributed application logs into a searchable store for request flow retrieval.
• Metric Threshold Alerting - Describes how to set numerical thresholds on metrics to trigger notifications for response time or error rate breaches.
• Core Dump Analysis - Explains how to analyze core dump files to inspect backtraces and retrieve object states after a crash.
• Automatic Crash Dump Generation - Provides guidance on configuring Node.js to automatically generate core dump files during process crashes.
• Distributed Transaction Analysis - Provides methods to group related events and durations to analyze performance bottlenecks for single requests in distributed systems.
• Error Tracking - Collects real-time error logs from production deployments to provide the diagnostic data necessary to fix crashes.
• Garbage Collection Monitoring - Explains how to track garbage collection statistics to trigger alerts when heap growth is detected.
• Heap Snapshot Comparison - Describes how to compare two heap snapshots to identify the object types causing memory growth.
• Heap Snapshot Capturers - Provides instructions for generating heap memory snapshots to identify leaks and analyze allocations.
• Memory Growth Diagnosis - Provides methods for capturing and analyzing heap snapshots and timelines to pinpoint memory leaks.
• Log Aggregation Systems - Collects and indexes application logs using centralized logging stacks for rapid error searching and analysis.
• Log Statistics Visualizers - Transforms raw log entries into web-based dashboards and charts to analyze execution times and trends.
• Log Message Filtering - Controls the visibility of log messages based on environment variables to isolate specific output categories.
• Metric Dashboards - Details how to transform raw time-series data into graphical charts for monitoring response times and errors.
• Service Dependency Analysis - Implements capabilities to visualize call hierarchies and execution times of microservices to identify critical paths.
• Custom Log Writers - Implements the ability to redirect execution traces to a custom store for filtered logging and metadata enrichment.
• Database Query Tracing - Analyzes database interactions and query performance to identify bottlenecks within the data layer.
• Trace Sampling - Provides techniques to limit the volume of captured tracing data using rate-limiting and custom sampling.
• Memory Leak Detection - Describes how to use heap dumps and memory monitoring to locate leaks and manage resource allocation.
• Profiling Data Visualizations - Provides graphical interfaces to transform raw profile data into flame graphs or tree views for analysis.
• Node.js Ecosystem - Guide to debugging Node.js applications.
• Web Development - Technical guide for debugging Node.js applications.

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