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One of the best software engineering tip I received is a good way to debug.

Once you are investigating something broken, you keep peeling/removing functionalities until things work again and then you add them back one by one until things re-break again.

One of the fastest way to detect a defect or a bug in a complex system.


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A good unit test
A good unit test should be:
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Outage Management
Outage management is a core skill for a software engineer to acquire and is critical to achieve high availability of an online service.
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Great software is released software!
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