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v90 of a content API deployed at 10:00 and briefly served responses with a wrong Cache-Control (it set 'public, max-age=86400' on personalized, user-specific pages). You catch it and roll back to v89 at 10:08. But users keep reporting they see other people's personalized content for hours after the rollback, even though the code is correct now and the deploy dashboard is green. Triage and mitigate.
What a strong answer looks like
Stop the bleeding first (mitigate), then form hypotheses from real signals. Separate root cause from symptom, communicate status as you go, and close with what prevents a repeat.
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