Zero-Downtime Rollbacks Are a Deployment Design Problem
A rollback is only as fast as the slowest thing it has to undo. Most teams discover this at 2am, mid-incident, with a database migration in the way.
Scheduling, rollouts and the control plane, explained from first principles.
A rollback is only as fast as the slowest thing it has to undo. Most teams discover this at 2am, mid-incident, with a database migration in the way.
A liveness probe that checks the database turns a slow dependency into a cluster-wide restart storm. Here is the discipline that prevents it…
GitOps is usually sold as "declarative deploys". The real change is smaller and stricter: CI stops touching production, and that fixes a lot…
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