This book is for those who wish to understand how Python debugging is and can be used to develop robust and reliable AI, machine learning, and cloud computing software. It will teach you a novel pattern-oriented approach to diagnose and debug abnormal software structure and behavior.

The book begins with an introduction to the pattern-oriented software diagnostics and debugging process that, before performing Python debugging, diagnoses problems in various software artifacts such as memory dumps, traces, and logs. Next, you’ll learn to use various debugging patterns through Python case studies that model abnormal software behavior. You’ll also be exposed to Python debugging techniques specific to cloud native and machine learning environments and explore how recent advances in AI/ML can help in Python debugging. Over the course of the book, case studies will show you how to resolve issues around environmental problems, crashes, hangs, resource spikes, leaks, and performance degradation. This includes tracing, logging, and analyzing memory dumps using native WinDbg and GDB debuggers.

Upon completing this book, you will have the knowledge and tools needed to employ Python debugging in the development of AI, machine learning, and cloud computing applications.

What You Will Learn

• Employ a pattern-oriented approach to Python debugging that starts with diagnostics of common software problems
• Use tips and tricks to get the most out of popular IDEs, notebooks, and command-line Python debugging
• Understand Python internals for interfacing with operating systems and external modules
• Perform Python memory dump analysis, tracing, and logging

Who This Book Is For

Software developers, AI/ML engineers, researchers, data engineers, as well as MLOps and DevOps professionals.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Fundamental Vocabulary

Chapter 2: Pattern-Oriented Debugging

Chapter 3: Elementary Diagnostics Patterns

Chapter 4: Debugging Analysis Patterns

Chapter 5: Debugging Implementation Patterns

Chapter 6: IDE Debugging in the Cloud

Chapter 7: Debugging Presentation Patterns

Chapter 8: Debugging Architecture Patterns

Chapter 9: Debugging Design Patterns

Chapter 10: Debugging Usage Patterns

Chapter 11: Case Study: Resource Leaks

Chapter 12: Case Study: Deadlock

Chapter 13: Challenges of Python Debugging in Cloud Computing

Chapter 14: Challenges of Python Debugging in Al and Machine Learning

Chapter 15: What Al and Machine Learning Can Do for Python Debugging

Chapter 16: The List of Debugging Patterns

About the Author

Dmitry Vostokov is an internationally recognized expert, speaker, educator, scientist, inventor, and author. He founded the pattern-oriented software diagnostics, forensics, and prognostics discipline (Systematic Software Diagnostics) and Software Diagnostics Institute (DA+TA: DumpAnalysis.org + TraceAnalysis.org). Vostokov has also authored multiple books on software diagnostics, anomaly detection and analysis, software, and memory forensics, root cause analysis and problem-solving, memory dump analysis, debugging, software trace and log analysis, reverse engineering, and malware analysis. He has over thirty years of experience in software architecture, design, development, and maintenance in various industries, including leadership, technical, and people management roles. In his spare time, he presents multiple topics on Debugging.TV and explores software narratology and its further development as narratology of things and diagnostics of things (DoT), software pathology, and quantum software diagnostics. His current interest areas are theoretical software diagnostics and its mathematical and computer science foundations, application of formal logic, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data mining to diagnostics and anomaly detection, software diagnostics engineering and diagnostics-driven development, diagnostics workflow, and interaction. Recent interest areas also include cloud native computing, security, automation, functional programming, applications of category theory to software development and big data, and artificial intelligence diagnostics.