Logging is such an important part of any production service. It acts as your eyes and ears into the workings of a service, helping you debug issues and explain behaviour retrospectively, as well as letting you watch what a component is up to in real time.

As you might have already read around these parts, my home broadband is not a great service.

During my career as a software engineer so far, I have had the opportunity to work with a large variety of junior developers.

I’m a big fan of Age of Empires II (commonly abbreviated to aoe2, or age2) - a hugely popular RTS game first released in 1999.