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You have 10 minutes to debug a production Java performance issue. What is your first move?

Tests whether you'd grab a thread dump (or two, a few seconds apart) immediately -- it's the fastest single artifact that reveals blocked threads, lock contention, or a busy-spinning loop, giving you a concrete lead before you've spent any of your 10 minutes guessing.

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