Sidekick Open Source is here to allow self-hosting and make live debugging more accessible. Built for everyone who needs extra information from their running applications.
https://github.com/runsidekick/sidekick/blob/v0.0.1/LICENSE
I knew what it was going to be before even looking
Assuming that it's just the server part that's AGPL, that's not very restrictive for something that's purely a development tool.
That's VERY different from a library you need to include in your finished application being AGPL or even server software that you might expose to end users being AGPL.
can you elaborate what is wrong with using a license that is listed on https://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical ?
For me, and the company I work for, AGPL is strictly banned. GPL is gravely frowned upon, because the founder had a lot of lawyers involved that almost bombed an acquisition. I appreciate that's anecdata, but for sure it is a "conversation" in the company versus Apache 2 which requires no conversation
I'm actually kind of luke-warm about AGPL for some things, but for what I imagine is a JVM agent, and thus both injected into my software and communicates over the network, hard pass
For clarity: I didn't mean my comment as a scolding: the community is almost certainty better off for you having chosen to share the code, and there will be folks who can and do contribute fixes under the terms of the AGPL. It's just been my overpowering experience that a lot of companies that try to open source code are trying to guard against "being Amazon-ed" and I appreciate why they think that way
I don’t only mean the debugger, but also the flight recorder.
This is Serkan. Co-Founder&CTO at Thundra, the company behind Sidekick.
Flight recorder is a very useful tool for profiling your apps running on JVM. But next generation debugging tools like Sidekick allows you to debug your Java applications without stopping at breakpoint (so it can be used even on production)
Sidekick - gives you local debugging like experience with tracepoints (aka non-breaking breakpoints) - And allows you to inject logs dynamically to anywhere on the fly without code change, rebuild and redeploy
But dynamically changing new “trace”points with a running prod instance is indeed a new functionality it seems.
Sidekick is a live application debugger that lets you troubleshoot your applications while they keep on running. It allows you to add dynamic logs and put non-breaking breakpoints in your running application without the need of stopping & redeploying.
Currently supporting Java, Python & Node.js runtimes.
So Sidekick is like Chrome DevTools for your backend.
Problems that we solve
- Collecting dynamic data from running applications is hard
- Adding new logs and redeploying apps takes time ⌛
- Developer onboarding is hard for complex systems
- Microservices are harder to debug
- Logging everything or using APMs create so much unnecessary data
What we offer
Here is how you can benefit from Sidekick and boost your developer productivity up to 3x
- Debug your remote application (monoliths or microservices on Kubernetes, Docker, VMs, or Local) and collect actionable data from your remote application.
- Add logs to your production apps without redeploying or restarting
- Cut your monitoring costs with on-demand & conditional logpoints & tracepoints
- On-board new developers by showing how your apps work using real-time data.
- Observe Event-Driven Systems with ease
- Programmatically control where and when you collect data from your applications
- Either use Sidekick's Web IDE, VS Code & IntelliJ IDEA extensions to control your Sidekick Actions or use headless clients to bring Sidekick to your workflow in any way you want!
- Evaluate the impact of an error on applications with integrated distributed tracing.
- Collaborate with your colleagues by sharing snapshots taken by Sidekick.
- Reduce the time spent context-switching between different tools.
Our journey:
It has been around 6 months since we released Sidekick as a standalone solution and the last 6 months were a roller coaster. We have improved Sidekick to make it a true developer-first tool that makes the developers a part of the core loop. You can read my blog to learn more about our journey:
https://medium.com/runsidekick/past-present-and-future-of-si...
In addition to our new features, we have decided to make Sidekick Open Source to allow self-hosting and make live debugging more accessible. Now it is ready to meet you!
We are currently updating these pages but we mainly differ with: Our headless approach (REST API & Node.js client), Lower Overhead & Higher Hit count limits, Web IDE, OSS, Thundra APM integration, Collaboration support, Full On-premise solution with Web IDE support
more will come with this months updates