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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.
Why esbuild Isn't Removing Dead Code: Side Effects, IIFE Wrappers, and Import Semantics
A practical guide to diagnosing and fixing esbuild tree-shaking failures caused by side-effect flags, IIFE wrappers, and import semantics.
Debugging Rollup Named Export Not Found Errors
A practical guide to diagnosing and fixing 'named export not found' errors in Rollup, covering common causes like tree-shaking, mismatched exports, and plugin interactions.
Debugging Babel Transform Plugin Errors
A practical guide to diagnosing and fixing errors from Babel transform plugins, including plugin ordering, configuration, and version mismatches.
Tailwind CSS Class Not Being Applied? Debug the Pipeline
A systematic walkthrough for when a Tailwind utility class is present in your HTML but the styles don't render in the browser.
Tailwind CSS Purge Removing Used Classes: How to Debug
Debug why Tailwind's purge feature removes classes you are actually using in your templates.
Webpack Code Splitting: Lazy-Loaded Chunk Fails to Load
A guide to debugging webpack dynamic imports where the split chunk never loads, causing blank screens or missing UI sections.
Long-form thinking on debugging habits, observability, and the systems around the bug.
The Debugging Mindset: A Systematic Method for Finding Root Causes
A repeatable, hypothesis-driven approach to debugging that works for intermittent failures, performance regressions, and production incidents.
Analyzing a Core Dump: What to Do When Your Process Goes Silent
A core dump is your process's last scream. Here's how to make it talk.
Timeouts Every Engineer Gets Wrong (and How to Fix Them)
Most timeout bugs aren't logic errors — they're configuration failures. Here's how to stop treating timeouts as magic numbers and start engineering them deliberately.
Backpressure in Streaming Systems: When Your Pipeline Fights Back
Backpressure is the system's way of saying 'slow down.' Ignore it and you get OOM crashes, silent data loss, or cascading failures. Here's how to design for it.
Finding Memory Leaks Step by Step: A Systematic Approach
Memory leaks are the silent killers of long-running services. Here's a repeatable process to hunt them down, from heap dumps to production monitoring.