Your team runs a SaaS platform. Suddenly the traffic doubles and the infrastructure provider says “configuration file too large” triggered a crash. What steps do you take to solve the situation??, A non-technical stakeholder demands “Why can’t we guarantee zero downtime?” How do you explain infrastructure complexity in easy English?, As a new dev in a company, you discover that a small misconfiguration in a network rule could cause major outage. How can you explain the importance of solving that to your non-tech coworkers?, The outage hits an AI tool that many devs depend on (e.g., ChatGPT-style). How does this affect your work, and what backup/contingency do you propose?, After the outage, the company’s share price falls (as Cloudflare’s did). Your dev team is asked: “What do we say to investors?” How do you frame your answer?, Black Friday is 72 in hours. You work as a developer for a large e-commerce reseller. The company expects a 10× traffic spike and cannot afford downtime. How can you assure that for your manager?.

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