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Collecting error stacks from backend as exceptions occur in E2E tests — A tutorial on Cypress

Tools in this article (Cypress & Sidekick) are both open-source. You will learn how to include backend exceptions in your Cypress E2E test results

Collecting error stacks from backend as exceptions occur in E2E tests — A tutorial on Cypress

Tools in this article (Cypress & Sidekick) are both open-source. You will learn how to include backend exceptions in your Cypress E2E test results

Capturing Exception Call Stacks in Python Applications with Sidekick

Capturing and debugging error stacks for significantly enhancing developer productivity.

Live Debugging for Python Applications

Sidekick resolves a burning problem in monitoring and debugging live environments.

Identifying Software Bugs - Part 2

Part 2 of "Identifying Software Bugs" will shed light on the dark world of bohrbugs, heisenbugs, mandelbugs, and schroedinbugs.

On-Demand Logging

5 Best Logging Solutions for Java

In this article, we discuss the best logging frameworks optimized for Java, focusing on their characteristics to help you choose the best

Deploying Backends on AWS

In this article, we’ll cover all the services that AWS provides to deploy the backend services of an application and how to choose between them

The Easiest Way of Debugging Kubernetes Deployments

In this post, I demonstrate how to live debug Kubernetes deployments with ease!

The way we develop software evolves, way we debug can’t stay the same!

Writing clean and readable code, adding tests and everything is a must for today’s software development teams but it is never enough to avoid bugs from appearing.

Sidekick’s Live Debugging Agents are Now Open Source

We have open-sourced Sidekick Live Debugger a few weeks ago and now we have open-sourced all our agents too!

Capturing Exception Call Stacks in Python Applications with Sidekick

Capturing and debugging error stacks for significantly enhancing developer productivity.

Collecting error stacks from backend as exceptions occur in E2E tests — A tutorial on Cypress

Tools in this article (Cypress & Sidekick) are both open-source. You will learn how to include backend exceptions in your Cypress E2E test results

Live Debugging for Python Applications

Sidekick resolves a burning problem in monitoring and debugging live environments.

Deploying Backends on AWS

In this article, we’ll cover all the services that AWS provides to deploy the backend services of an application and how to choose between them

The Easiest Way of Debugging Kubernetes Deployments

In this post, I demonstrate how to live debug Kubernetes deployments with ease!

The way we develop software evolves, way we debug can’t stay the same!

Writing clean and readable code, adding tests and everything is a must for today’s software development teams but it is never enough to avoid bugs from appearing.

Sidekick’s Live Debugging Agents are Now Open Source

We have open-sourced Sidekick Live Debugger a few weeks ago and now we have open-sourced all our agents too!

Capturing Exception Call Stacks from running Node.js Applications

Sidekick allows you to collect stacks as errors happen, without needing for putting a tracepoint beforehand

How to Debug in Production Securely and Efficiently

With Sidekick open-source, debugging in production is now easier than ever. It saves you time since you don’t have to replicate the system to debug.

Past, Present, and Future of Sidekick

It is time for our biggest update ever. Sidekick goes open-source!

Sidekick ❤️ VSCode

We are excited to announce the VSCode extension of Sidekick which will make your life easier.

Realtime Debugging support for NodeJS

We are glad to announce Sidekick support for Node.js. Whether you are working on a dev branch or prod, you can now remotely debug your running Node.js applications using Sidekick’s web IDE.

Announcing Sidekick: Instant Live Debugging to Fix Software Bugs

The brand new live debugger - Sidekick became a standalone solution with on-premise support and many seamless features!

Introducing Sidekick's Python Support

We are happy to announce support for Python runtime for Sidekick. Now, with this latest release, developers can remotely debug their Python applications using Sidekick’s web applications or the IntelliJ IDEA plugin.