Error Handling and Logging in Production Backends
Designing Resilient Server-Side Applications with Robust Error Tracking and Monitoring
Master production-ready error handling and logging for backend systems. Learn to build resilient applications with comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and observability patterns.
About This Book
Quick Overview
Master production-ready error handling and logging for backend systems. Learn to build resilient applications with comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and observability patterns.
Key Topics Covered
- Error handling strategies
- logging best practices
- centralized logging systems
- monitoring and alerting
- system resilience patterns
- observability
- health checks
- performance optimization
- log security
- alert management
- production debugging
- incident response
- microservices error handling
- distributed system failures
Who Should Read This Book
Backend developers, DevOps engineers, system architects, site reliability engineers, technical leads, production support engineers, full-stack developers working on server-side systems
Prerequisites
Backend development experience, familiarity with web frameworks, basic understanding of distributed systems, knowledge of HTTP protocols, experience with databases and external APIs
Table of Contents
About This Publication
This book provides a comprehensive framework for implementing robust error handling and logging in production backend systems. You'll master the art of building resilient applications that gracefully handle failures while providing excellent observability for debugging and monitoring. Starting with error handling fundamentals, you'll learn to identify and categorize different types of errors that occur in backend systems, from network failures and database timeouts to memory issues and external service disruptions. The book then guides you through implementing effective error handling strategies across popular frameworks and architectural patterns. The logging section teaches you how to create meaningful, structured logs that serve as valuable debugging tools rather than noise. You'll learn to implement centralized logging architectures, design effective alerting systems, and balance comprehensive logging with performance and security requirements. Advanced chapters cover building truly resilient systems through circuit breakers, health checks, retry policies, and comprehensive observability practices. You'll also explore critical production concerns including log security, performance optimization, and alert management strategies. By the end of this book, you'll have the knowledge and practical tools needed to build backend systems that handle errors gracefully, provide excellent observability, and maintain high availability even under adverse conditions.
Book Details
- Format
- File Size
- 3.1 MB
- Chapters
- 20
- Code Examples
- 99
- Exercises
- 99
- Difficulty Level
- beginner
- Reading Time
- 34-40
Special Features
• 20 comprehensive chapters covering error handling fundamentals through advanced production topics • Real-world code examples in popular frameworks (Express.js, Django, Spring Boot, ASP.NET Core) • Complete middleware implementations ready for production use • Centralized logging architecture patterns and configuration examples • Production readiness checklists and assessment frameworks • Security-focused logging practices for sensitive data protection • Performance optimization techniques for high-throughput systems • Alert management strategies to prevent fatigue while ensuring reliability • Comprehensive appendices with configuration templates and code snippets • Case studies from real production incidents and their solutions
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