Code Walkthrough

Definitions

1. A guided explanation of how a section of code works, often presented to teammates during onboarding, review, or incident follow-up. Code walkthroughs help transfer mental models that are hard to infer quickly from source alone, especially in complex or unfamiliar subsystems.

   In plain English: A guided explanation of how a part of the code works.

   Example: "The postmortem included a code walkthrough of the retry coordinator so the whole team understood why one timeout bug cascaded into duplicate writes."

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