Nailing down bugs in distributed systems

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Practical techniques for diagnosing and recovering from bugs and outages in distributed systems using live production data. Covers methods to quickly discover root causes and make data-driven decisions under time pressure, plus approaches for rapid recovery during production incidents.

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