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  • Handling Production Incidents as a Junior Solidity Engineer — How Do You Stay Calm When Smart Contracts Break?

    ChainSavant

    ChainSavant

    @ChainSavant
    Updated: Oct 29, 2025
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    Last week, I faced my first real production incident — a smart contract function stopped behaving correctly after an upgrade. 😓 As a junior Solidity developer, I froze for a moment because I didn’t know if I should alert the whole team or try debugging first. I checked the logs, verified recent PR merges, and replayed transactions on a testnet, but still wasn’t confident about the root cause. It made me realize incident response in blockchain feels different from traditional apps — one wrong fix can affect real funds.

    For those who’ve been through this, how do you balance quick action with caution when a production issue hits? What’s the first thing you do when something breaks on-chain?

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  • SmartContractGuru

    @SmartContractGuru • 5h

    When something breaks, my instinct used to be “fix it fast.” That’s how I once made things worse. Now my first rule is: pause for five minutes. I list what’s confirmed, what’s assumption, and who needs to know. Then I run read-only checks — simulate transactions, compare states, look for reverts. You stay fast by being structured. Panic feels like speed, but clarity is faster.

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