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Playbooks for fast pattern recognition, guides for the full investigation, and articles for the engineering judgment around the edges.
17 playbooks · 509 guides · 95 articles · 12 linked practice labs ·skip to practice
Fast pattern recognition for the production failures engineers see most often.
17 playbooks
Debugging Env Var Issues
A concise checklist for incidents where local works but CI, staging, or production changes behavior.
Debugging Cache Stampedes
How to recognize and contain request spikes when cached data expires.
Debugging CORS Origin Bugs
A practical way to inspect origin parsing, credentials, and header behavior.
Debugging Retry Bugs
Retry issues often hide the first failure and create duplicate work.
Debugging Timezone Bugs
Time bugs usually live at day boundaries, DST changes, and unit conversions.
Debugging Pagination Bugs
Pagination bugs hide in boundary math, cursor reuse, and new records arriving between pages.
Structured investigations for the failure modes engineers meet in real systems.
Zustand Persist Middleware Not Saving or Loading State
How to diagnose and fix persistent state bugs with Zustand's persist middleware in React. Get concrete steps, real root causes, and effective solutions.
React Query Not Refreshing Stale Data Despite Invalidations
Diagnose and resolve cases where React Query fails to update stale data, even when invalidations or refetches are expected to trigger.
“Module Not Supported” Errors in Next.js Edge Runtime
A real-world guide to diagnosing and fixing 'module not supported' errors when deploying Next.js projects to the Edge Runtime.
React Portal Allows Click Events to Bubble Outside Intended DOM
When using React portals, click or key events can bubble up to unexpected ancestors, triggering handlers outside their intended boundaries.
Diagnosing tRPC Procedure Errors in Next.js Apps
Pinpoint and resolve tRPC procedure errors in Next.js projects. Covers error signatures, hidden pitfalls, common root causes, and real-world troubleshooting steps.
Vue Reactive Property Not Updating in Template
Diagnose and resolve cases where Vue's reactive data fails to reflect changes in the UI, including edge cases beyond the classic pitfalls.
Long-form thinking on debugging habits, observability, and the systems around the bug.
Logs, Traces, and the Lies They Tell: Debugging a Stuck Queue in Production
A single stuck queue brought down an entire checkout flow. Here's how we traced the failure across services, what the logs didn't say, and the tools that finally showed the truth.
Pair Debugging: How to Debug Together Without Killing Each Other
Pair debugging sounds great on paper. In practice, it's easy to step on each other's toes, go silent, or fight over the keyboard. Here's how to make it work.
Debugging with AI Tools: What Worked and What Didn't in Production
After a year of using GPT-4, Copilot, and Claude to hunt production bugs, here's what actually helped — and what sent me down dead ends.
How to Debug Legacy Code Without Losing Your Mind
A pragmatic approach to debugging code you didn't write, with techniques for tracing execution, isolating side effects, and making safe edits.
Debugging Feature Flag Rollouts: Tracing the Live-at-5 Incident
A misconfigured feature flag triggered a cascading failure in production. Here's how we traced the root cause and built a better debugging toolkit.
How to Ask for Debugging Help Without Wasting Everyone's Time
Asking for debugging help is a skill. Here's how to provide enough context, show your work, and frame the problem so others can actually help you.