On The Costs of Hidden Logging
Tip: Never underestimate the danger of a partial implementation (even if it is just a logging implementation).

Software engineer at DataDog with eminent interest in Java and its performance, management and observability tooling. Long time OpenJDK contributor and co-author and maintainer of BTrace, a dynamic tracing tool for Java.

Tip: Never underestimate the danger of a partial implementation (even if it is just a logging implementation).
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