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Your e-commerce platform is experiencing cascading failures during a flash sale event. Multiple services are degraded, the database is under heavy load, and customer complaints are flooding in. Walk through how you would handle this situation.
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This scenario represents a cascading failure during a high-stakes event. The priority is to stabilize the system and preserve as much business value as possible, even if that means degraded service for some users.
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