Programming fun at startup

Lot of times developers want to know 1) How many exceptions are happening in a 100 node cluster 2) When I do a new release are the no of exceptions growing or decreasing 3) What are my top 5 exceptions in the app that I need to focus on 4) overall are there any nodes where some exception is happening a lot of times compared to other nodes. Getting all this statistics is tricky as you have to parse logs and aggregate what not so all this is messy and time consuming. Also when nodes are added/removed from cluster you have to change the script. Solution I came up was very simple 1) 90% of the time the exceptions are logged using logger so I overrode the logger.error method and would get first 100 chars out of exception stacktrace keep a counter in a static in memory hashmap. 2) Some exceptions that are never logged so I wrote a servlet filter to catch them in a top level filter and log them to logger that way it would be counted. 3) I wrote a quartz job at the end of the day to...

I realized that a good side effect of using spring in your application is that you are always creating public setter/getter(optional) for your dependencies and sometimes "init" and "destroy" methods. Lot of times in production we had to change some settings like list of memcache servers(when you add/remove a one) or list of cassandra servers(when you move them around to better hardware). The problem is that we want to avoid as much tomcat restarts when this happens as some of these are global to all tomcats and we cant restart all of them(it has to be a rolling restart). With spring its easy, you can always write a jsp that can call the setter and change the setting on the live bean and you are done. In traditional applications where you don't use spring its entirely up to developers to expose the setter method but with spring this nice side effect has save my ass a lot of time.

Without going into too much depth here is the way to do it. The challenge faced were SimpleJdbcTemplate has a no-arg constructor. In future the intent of this interceptor is to detect N+1 query problem by using a light weight instrumentation framework plugged in instead of logging query times in log file. public void setDataSource(DataSource dataSource) { final SimpleJdbcTemplate simpleJdbcTemplate = new SimpleJdbcTemplate( dataSource); Enhancer enhancer = new Enhancer(); enhancer.setSuperclass(SimpleJdbcTemplate.class); enhancer.setCallback(new MethodInterceptor() { @Override public Object intercept(Object obj, Method method, Object[] args, MethodProxy proxy) throws Throwable { try{ String methodName = method.getName(); if (methodName.startsWith("query") || methodName.startsWith("batchUpdate") || methodName.startsWith("update")) { String query = (String) args[0]; String prefix = extractQue...