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Debugging When You Have No Idea What's Going On - Dev Leader Weekly 145

TL; DR:

Not knowing everything is completely normal
Prove or disprove every hypothesis, then write it down
Disproving is just as valuable as proving
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Debugging When You Have No Idea What's Going On

Something is on fire. A live service is doing something it absolutely should not be doing, the metrics look wrong, and you're sitting there staring at it thinking: I genuinely have no idea what's going on. If you've ever felt that creeping sense of shame in that moment -- like a "real" engineer would already know the answer -- I want to talk to you. Because that feeling is incredibly common, and it's almost entirely self-inflicted.

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