Lucas and Luna dig into a problem that silently wastes developer hours and cloud spend: API gateway logs that look clean but actually mask upstream failures. They walk through a real scenario from a large e-commerce company where a 200-status response was hiding a 1.2-second timeout on the backend service, costing $45,000 a month in unnecessary retries and degraded user experience. Then they cover three concrete steps to fix it — response time percentiles in logs, structured error propagation, and a simple alert on 'successful' requests that exceed a latency budget. No fluff, just engineering patterns that pay for themselves.

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