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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.
On-call & incidents · Incident response
You're on-call and get paged at 3 a.m. for high CPU usage on the API service. You've never been on-call for this service before. What are your first three steps?
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