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		closeparen on Nov 3, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What tools and practices have helped you w... I've gotten considerably better at debugging complex issues after resolving to always put in the work to find out what is really happening - build in the observability, export the data, write whatever analysis tools you may need. Wasted so much time earlier in my career on blind guesswork.

nuancebydefault on Nov 3, 2024 [–]

Measuring is knowing indeed. You can throw out 90 percent of your hypothesis of what is going on, with a few well placed data probes.

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