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Sherlock Holmes Debugging

I use the Sherlock Holmes method of debugging software. This means working backwards from a symptom to the series of causes which tell a story of the entire bug. It works for production outages and during development. Something that recently happened at my startup should be instructive.
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Nov 9, 2014Sherlock Holmes Debugging by bqe11428

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