World Congress 2024 • Aug 22, 2024 • Session details

Answering the Million Dollar Question: Why did I Break Production?

Why do deployments inevitably fail? Outages always trace back to people, infrastructure, or code—discover historic blunders and why your curiosity remains the ultimate debugging tool.

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