Java

I was listening to Uncle Bob Martin’s lecture on YouTube last night. His No ‘side-effects’ advice hit me and made me realize that I was doing something in my code that I shouldn’t be doing it that way.

I’m currently working on a microservices-based Spring Boot application, where I’m using Logback as my logging framework. The application is now running live on a remote server. Since I don’t have access to the server, I don’t get to see the logs when I want to see them or when there is some error. I have to ask someone from the sysadmin team to send me the log file every time and wait for their response. This kind of human dependency eats up a decent amount of time in any software development lifecycle. I try to avoid such dependencies and seek to circumvent them. So, I have written a simple snippet of code that can read the log file from the server filesystem and send it back to me in an API response.

We usually use if-else or switch statements to write our logical conditions in our code. There is nothing to worry about as long as your list of logical conditions is short.