If You Were a Server: How to Detect Issues and Keep Things Running Smoothly

Here is a question that often pops up in senior web developer and backend interviews: "If you were a server, how would you detect that you're having issues, and what would you do next to make things run smoothly?" At first, it sounds a little weird. Be a server? But that is actually the whole point. The interviewer wants to know if you can think like infrastructure — can you see problems before they become disasters, and do you know how to respond? This post breaks it all down in simple English.