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State of Sidekick Live Application Debugger : 2023 Edition

This article focuses on aftermath of the launch of Sidekick Open-Source & the latest additions to Sidekick’s features

Redirecting AWS Lambda invocations to local for Debugging & Hot-Reloading without disrupting the flow

Develop and debug serverless functions using your local IDE while still using the full range of AWS services and features

Remote Debugging Microservices: Overcoming the Challenges

In this article, we’ll look at the challenges involved in taking up microservices and examine some approaches to troubleshoot.

Remote Debugging and What It Means for Java Applications

This article aims to expand on why remote debugging is needed and the disadvantages that may arise.

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.

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!

State of Sidekick Live Application Debugger : 2023 Edition

This article focuses on aftermath of the launch of Sidekick Open-Source & the latest additions to Sidekick’s features

Dynamic Observability meets OpenTelemetry

Perfect duo for monitoring and debugging complex backend applications

Redirecting AWS Lambda invocations to local for Debugging & Hot-Reloading without disrupting the flow

Develop and debug serverless functions using your local IDE while still using the full range of AWS services and features

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.

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.