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How FAANG Engineers Use Debugging Tools Like strace and lsof
Lucas and Luna dive into the underappreciated art of using low-level debugging tools like strace and lsof, even in modern cloud-native environments. Lucas explains how a junior engineer at Amazon used strace to diagnose a latency spike that had stumped the on-call team for hours, tracing system calls to uncover a misconfigured kernel parameter. Luna shares her own experience with lsof at Google, tracking down a file descriptor leak that was causing a critical service to crash every 48 hours. They discuss why these tools remain relevant despite sophisticated observability platforms, how to…
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