You’re on-call and receive alerts that a critical endpoint i... | Interview Question
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You’re on-call and receive alerts that a critical endpoint is returning errors for a subset of users during peak traffic. Walk me through your immediate steps to mitigate user impact, how you would diagnose the root cause, and how you would communicate with stakeholders during the incident.
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