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Troubleshooting production issues and log analysis

TROUBLESHOOTING production issues and Splunk log analysis:
This skill is not something you can gain over night. It is a skill that you improve by being in tough and under pressure situations. Then over years you end up painting this whole scheme in your mind on how to approach problems. It almost becomes the second nature to you.
I strongly recommend it to all software engineers. Yes, we all like to be working on new code and writing new applications, but the 10 lines of code that you write will be so much better because you were in the shoes of troubleshooting production issues and you will consider things that other developers will not.
Don’t think of troubleshooting production issues as a downgrade in your career. I’d like to think of it as a necessary step in completing your software engineering skills and graduating. At the end of the day, if we write code, we should be maintaining that same code to appreciate the value of it. If that code is not stable, it is in our interest to make it better if we get called often to troubleshoot it in production.
Thank you for reading this article.
Almir Mustafic

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