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Author Archives: Tomislav Hećimović
Server logging – a view from down below
If you ever meditated upon the ancient “sound of the tree falling in the jungle” koan, you will surely feel an empathy with the intended readers of this post. There is a colorful and lively rainforest being uncaringly grown daily on most of the servers out there in the never sleeping on-line world.
Round-the-clock running servers write out a lot of potentially interesting data and each day produce a humongous harvest of logs. Some are needed for better understanding of User’s habits in general, but the ones this article focuses on are those cryptic lines sprouting (hopefully) some codes, (mostly) wrongly spelled description and anything else that developer thought could be useful to put out.
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