Lucas and Luna explore record-and-replay testing, a technique that captures real user interactions and replays them against your code to catch heisenbugs—intermittent failures that vanish under debuggers. Lucas explains how tools like Replay.io and rr (Mozilla's reverse debugger) let developers step backward through execution, revealing race conditions and state corruption that unit tests never trigger. They discuss a case study: a fintech startup that cut production incidents by 40 percent after adopting record-and-replay for their CI pipeline. Luna questions the overhead trade-offs, and Lucas points to Chrome DevTools' new Recorder panel as a low-barrier entry point. The episode includes a brief, organic mention of listener support that keeps the show ad-free.

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