While sending debug and other information out to the console is popular and easy, chances are that it becomes confusing and chaotic beyond a certain complexity. This includes the lack of a standardized date/time or origin class or inconsistent formatting, making it hard to trace an execution path through the system. Moreover, recent systems focus on logs as an additional source for information: how many users did we serve each hour of the day? Where did they come from? What was the 95th percentile response time?
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These questions can be answered with diligent logging using a framework that provides consistent and configurable output that can be easily parsed and shipped to a log analytics service. Let...