your connection deserves a name

👀 When your app interacts with an external system, assign a name to the connection. An external system in this context can be things like a database, a cache, a message queue or an HTTP endpoint.

🎯 The goal should be: the external system can identify their clients.

🔥 During an incident, it will reduce the time to debug by multiple hours and often save other applications from failing.

➡️ Read more about this at your database connection deserves a name @ andygrunwald.com.

How to do it (with examples)

This repository provides you example code for various systems in different programming languages:

• MongoDB
• MSSQL / SQL-Server
• MySQL
• NATS
• Oracle DB
• PostgreSQL
• RabbitMQ
• redis

Missing a system or a programming language?

If you

• know a system that supports connection naming, and it is not listed here
• miss a programing language example in your favorite language

let us know in either of two ways:

1. Create an Issue with all the details you have in mind
2. or create a Pull Request with the implementation.

We are happy to extend this project.