Why My “Simple” App Install Took 6 Hours and Wiped a Client’s Database (And the Installation Framework That Prevents Disasters)

I still remember the Slack message that ended my evening. It was 7:43 p.m. on a Tuesday, I was packing up to leave the office after what I thought was a routine deployment, when my phone buzzed with a message from our lead developer: “Production database is down. Did you run something?” I’d installed a … Read more