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Practical guides for using and contributing to cache-kit.
## Available Guides
1. **[Failure Modes & Error Handling](failure-modes)** - Understand error behavior by cache strategy and recovery patterns
2. **[Production Troubleshooting](troubleshooting)** - Diagnose and resolve common cache-kit issues with error handling best practices
3. **[Monitoring & Metrics](monitoring)** - Set up observability, metrics, and alerting
## Quick Start
If you're contributing to cache-kit, see [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/megamsys/cache-kit.rs/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) for development guidelines and submission process.