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Why is the difference between liveness and readiness probes commonly tested in interviews?

Because confusing them is a common real production mistake: incorrectly treating a 'not ready yet' (e.g., still warming up) state as a liveness failure causes unnecessary restart loops, while treating a genuinely stuck process as merely 'not ready' leaves a broken instance receiving no remediation.

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