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by sgt101 1648 days ago
A month of effort to avoid a day of downtime, and six months of unemployment.

I worked in a business where if the website went down we missed £26m revenue. This is not a particularly big business in the modern sense. However, one MD had a screwed up migration that didn't have a good roll-back plan. There was a missed day of revenue, and he - and several others in his top team - left the business within a calendar month.

This kind of thing colours my view on prod risk.