Root Cause: Stories and Lessons from Two Decades of Backend Engineering Bugs

The Software Engineering industry often evaluates engineers based on how many lines of code they write, how many years of experience they have, or how many features they ship. But I think a more powerful metric is the number of bugs they encountered, reproduced, traced to their root cause and fixed. Those experiences shape an engineer far more than raw output or time served in my opinion, let me elaborate.

Bugs hinder the stability of software, which affects the user experience. You may have...