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At Dynatrace Perform 2025: Non-breaking break points make their point

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Live Debugger captures key performance data as working code does its work — Giving developers a real-time view into issues.

By Jack Vaughan

[February 4 ] – At Dynatrace’s Perform 2025 user conference in Las Vegas, the observability software company announced Live Debugger, said to enable developers to non-invasively access runtime operations. Founder and CTO Bernd Greifeneder described this more succinctly, as “non-breaking break points.”

That’s succinct – but it borders on the paradoxical, oxymoronic or contradictory. What goes on?

The basic premise of the portfolio update is to allow developers to set a marker without interfering with the runtime. They can capture stack traces, variable values, and process information without the onerous labor of reproduction and redeployment. The new capabilities are supported directly from the Dynatrace platform or by using the company’s native Visual Studio Code and JetBrains IDE plugins. And Dynatrace advises on ways to set breakpoints on interfaced programs where source code is unavailable. [Read more…] about At Dynatrace Perform 2025: Non-breaking break points make their point

China Moon Racing

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This first ran in January on my Medium Blog.

It’s been something of an afterthought since the US Apollo program ended in December of 1972, but the Moon is moving into the public spotlight again.

What’s becoming clear is that a new Moon race is well underway, one with plenty of participants but one most pointedly pitting China against the US.

The competition has a different character than it had in the now distant past — it’s become more a long-running endurance race and less the clearly defined sprint it was in the 1960s, when fear of Sputnik tended to unite sentiment in the US. [Read more…] about China Moon Racing