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Interviewers ask this kind of question to surface how you think, not what you remember. The strongest answers are specific, calmly told, and end on what changed.

Debugging · Symptom To Cause reasoning

A cache hit rate dropped from 92% to 45% overnight with no code changes or traffic pattern shifts. Walk me through your debugging process.

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