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You hit “Place Order,” the spinner hangs for ten seconds, and you tap the button again. Now the fear sets
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Most developers treat the garbage collector as weather: it happens to them, and occasionally it ruins their day. But the
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Every Prometheus failure I’ve seen in production started the same way: someone added a label. A user ID on a