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The Bug That Taught Me Humility

A production outage that forced me to rethink ego ownership and what good engineering really means.

Chapter 1

The dashboard went red at 2:14 a.m.

By sunrise I understood that clever code is not the same as careful work.

#failure #technology #leadership

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James Okoro

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