Build The Infra

Building debugging infrastructure is a powerful way to level up your team and career. Here are the core points from the lesson:

• Invest in infrastructure like logging, dashboards, session recordings, bisect tools, and experiment tracking to make debugging easier for everyone

• Plan ahead by adding useful logging into products before bugs occur to speed up investigations and root cause analysis

• Funnel logging is especially valuable because it formalizes the end-to-end data flow, making it easier to spot where issues happen

• Building internal tools, even simple ones like the Log Insight tool at Meta, can lead to major team-wide adoption and career milestones

• Internal tooling projects are great side projects because they serve engineers directly, have less red tape, and can be very high impact

Rahul's internal tool case study: [Case Study] Building A Meta Internal Tool To Empower An Entire Org: Staff Promotion Story