[40yearoldman]

lol. No. Deployments were not the issue. At any given time an automated deployment system could have had a mistake introduced that resulted in bad code being sent to the system. It does not matter if it was old or new code. Any code could have had this bug.

What the issue was, and it’s one that I see often. Firstly no vision into the system. Not even a dash board showing the softwares running version. How often i see people ship software without a banner posting its version and or an endpoint that simply reports the version.

Secondly no god damn kill switch. You are working with money!! Shutting down has to be an option.

[40yearoldman]

Oh god. I just realized this is a PM. A plight on software engineering. People who play technical, and “take the requirements from the customer to the engineer”. What’s worse is when they play engineer too.

[INTPenis]

I mean it makes no sense, without even reading the article, just by working in IT I can tell you that if you're one deployment away from being bankrupt then you're either doing it wrong, or in the wrong business.