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Question
Some services can reach a dependency and others can't — a partial network partition. Failures are intermittent depending on which host serves the request. How do you diagnose?
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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