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When managed services feel less manageable than self-hosting

Our API gateway randomly returns 500 errors about twice a day and AWS support keeps telling us it is a configuration issue but their documentation contradicts itself and no one seems to know how these managed services actually work.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Abstracted infrastructure can create new categories of problems that resist traditional debugging approaches.

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