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Distributed Failures in Production

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How would you handle distributed system failures in a production environment? Address detection, incident coordination, containment, graceful degradation, recovery, data consistency, communication, and post-incident improvements. Explain how you would prioritize actions when the failure scope and root cause are initially unclear.