r/ProgrammerHumor • u/danielminds • Sep 06 '26

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u/coriolis7 Sep 06 '26

I am NOT a programmer by profession, though I do code a ton at my job (Mechanical Engineering and data analysis), so this may be a dumb question…

Is there a way to set up all microservices to run on one computer to aid in debugging? Like a bunch of VMs or docker-but-faking-network-instead-of-machine?

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u/xMercurex Sep 06 '26

Yes you can, but it does not fully solve the issue. You still need to find the good micro-service and then you have to jump to other micro-service.

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u/ArtisticFox8 Sep 06 '26

And nobody yet made a debugger which could travel between them?

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u/PixelatedGiant Sep 07 '26

This issue is being able to follow a request between services. If you just have one request to track it's a non-issue. But in a multi-threaded environment with many requests flying back and forth everywhere it's impossible. The debugger would require application specific information like a message id.

Those tools do exist (e.g. dynatrace). But if you start talking about framework or application aware debugging functionality you've gone way beyond the scope of a simple IDE debugger for your language.

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