How One Engineer Debugged a Null Pointer in Production
from The Software Engineering Podcast with Fexingo: Code, Architecture, and Engineering Best Practices Hosted by Fexingo
In this episode, Lucas and Luna dive into a production bug that brought down a payment processing system for 47 minutes. The root cause? A null pointer exception buried in code that had run flawlessly for over two years. We trace how a seemingly harmless code change triggered the failure, why the logs were misleading, and the specific debugging technique — binary search on git bisect — that isolated the commit in under ten minutes. You'll learn why even the most experienced engineers need a systematic approach to production debugging, and one concrete tool you can add to your incident response playbook tonight. #NullPointerException #ProductionDebugging #GitBisect #PaymentProcessing #IncidentResponse #SoftwareEngineering #CodeReview #Logging #Monitoring #TechPodcast #SoftwareEngineeringPodcast #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #EngineeringBestPractices #DebuggingTips #ProductionIncident #Java #BackendEngineering Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
Embed this episode
No transcript yet.