Demystifying the Fight Against Complexity: A Comprehensive Study of Live Debugging Activities in Production Cloud Systems
P. C. Sruthi, Zinan Guo, Deming Chu, Zhengyan Chen, Yongle Zhang · 2024
Debugging in production cloud systems (or live debugging) is a critical yet challenging task for on-call developers due to the financial impact of cloud service downtime and the inherent complexity of cloud systems. Unfortunately, how debugging is performed, and the unique challenges faced in the production cloud environment have not been investigated in detail.