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Code is abundant now. Architecture, maintainability, and staying true to what the application is for are still the hard part.

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How I Triage a Codebase That Is on Fire

When a system is failing and nobody knows why, the order of questions matters. This is my triage list, from is it running to is something contaminating the data.

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