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The Blind Leading the Blind: Chasing a Production Bug

Dev.to•Sun, Aug 2, 2026, 10:42 PM•2 min read

This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry . Around 2016, I was working as a PHP developer at Racing Post in London. The Post is best known for horse-racing news, form and results, but behind the public-facing products sat a large collection of systems for ...

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