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.
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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.
Remote state, locking and the drift problem, framed the way you would frame any other shared mutable store.
A teardown of a slow pipeline: what the wall-clock was actually spent on, and the four changes that bought back sixteen minutes.
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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