Your product runs in 30 customer environments you can't SSH into. Design how you monitor, debug, and upgrade the fleet.

The question that defines forward-deployed engineering as a discipline: production you're responsible for but can't touch. The answer is a system (version skew, telemetry tiers, diagnostic bundles, release trains), not a collection of favors from customer IT.

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