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Debugging technique: Check your dependencies

Sometimes a bug isn’t in your code. It’s elsewhere.

This could be a service you integrate with. Or a library you use. Or a framework you’re building on top of.

Maybe you upgraded to a new version of something recently. Maybe a dependency is having an active outage.

If signs are pointing to a dependency, check their status pages, known issues, and compatibility documentation.

Have you ever had to chase down an issue only to discover it was a bug in a dependency?

- Karl

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