Herding Code 124: Anthony van der Hoorn and Nik Molnar on Glimpse

Episode 124

• Jon asks why Glimpse was created.
• Anthony gives a high-level explanation of what Glimpse does.
• Glimpse is for your server what Firebug is for your browser.
• Glimpse exposes a plugin architecture that allows it to be extended as necessary.
• Kevin asks if Glimpse can be leveraged from application code. Nik explains it is possible, but 99% of the functionality you need will not require any extra code in your application.
• You can point your logging framework to Glimpse and then you can see log entries relevant to the request.
• The guys talk about how Glimpse fits in with NLog, ELMAH, mvc-mini-profiler, etc.
• Nik says Firebug + Fiddler + Glimpse is the trifecta of development tools.
• Jon asks how Glimpse can be used to help a user experiencing trouble with a production site.
• Jon asks about running Glimpse in production.
• Twitter question from @danielauger: "What was the most difficult metric to tap into?"
• Anthony and Nik explain all the detail that is tracked in the Execution tab of Glimpse.
• Anthony talks about how they decided to display all the data that Glimpse has.
• Jon and Anthony talk about how Glimpse could be used to improve page response times.
• Kevin asks about the performance overhead of using Glimpse and using it in production.
• Nik explains how Glimpse plugins are enabled/disabled.
• Jon asks about seeing the validation rules for a particular request.
• Anthony talks about what is added in to core Glimpse versus what goes in to Glimpse plugins.
• Jon asks about how Glimpse handles Ajax.
• Kevin asks about record-and-replay functionality in Glimpse.
• Jon asks about the implementation of the client side display of Glimpse data.
• Nik explains how to configure Glimpse to easily compare differences between test, staging and production environments.
• Jon asks about the future of Glimpse.

• Glimpse: git repo, Glimpse for ASP.NET NuGet package, Glimpse for ASP.NET MVC NuGet package
• Anthony van der Hoorn (@anthony_vdh)
• Nik Molnar (@nikmd23)
• CodePlex documentation for adding Glimpse manually
• NLog
• ELMAH
• mvc-mini-profiler
• Firebug
• Fiddler
• C4MVC talk on Glimpse
• Fluent Security

Herding Code 124: Anthony van der Hoorn and Nik Molnar on Glimpse