Debugging Under Fire: Keep your Head when Systems have Lost their Mind • Bryan Cantrill • GOTO 2017

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Bryan Cantrill shares war stories of debugging production outages under pressure and a method for staying calm: gather data, question assumptions and resist premature fixes; story-rich and concrete from a DTrace co-creator.

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Bryan Cantrill on debugging production systems under pressure: observability, keeping a cool head and learning from outages.

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Part of GOTO Chicago 2017

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