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Debug Complex Systems

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How do you approach debugging complex systems?

Discuss your approach in the context of ETL or ELT pipelines. Cover how you isolate failures across ingestion, transformation, orchestration, storage, and serving layers; validate data correctness; identify performance bottlenecks; and prevent recurrence through monitoring, testing, and runbooks.