Intonation Practice

Practice intonation with a conversation between software developers. Pause when you see a / and stress the words in bold print.

💻 Conversation: The Urgent Bug

Alex: Hey Ben, / did you see the JIRA ticket that just came in? / Apparently, the checkout flow is completely broken on production.

Ben: Seriously? / I just got back from lunch. / What kind of broken are we talking about? / Is it a server error or a front-end thing?

Alex: The ticket says it’s throwing a 500 error right after the user clicks “Place Order.” / It looks like a null pointer exception in the new microservice we deployed last night.

Ben: Oh, no… / The one that handles the inventory update? / I thought we tested that thoroughly! / Did you review the latest pull request?

Alex: I did, / but maybe I missed a race condition or something subtle in the database transaction logic. / It looked fine in the staging environment.

Ben: Staging and prod are never quite the same, are they? / Okay, let’s look at the logs right now. / I’ll pull up Kibana, / you check the service code. / This is a P0, / we need to get a hot-fix out fast.

Alex: Agreed. / I’m checking the commit history for the inventory service. / I bet it’s that one change I made to optimize the SQL query… / I’ll revert it and test it in a dev environment immediately.

Ben: Good idea. / I’ll set up a monitoring dashboard for the next hour. / Let me know when you have a candidate fix. / We can’t let this sit for more than fifteen minutes. / Our users are not going to be happy.

Alex: On it. / I’ll push the revert branch to Git and send you the link. / Let’s get this thing fixed!

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