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A Developer's 40-Minute Debug of a Deploy That Wasn't Broken
A developer spent 40 minutes debugging a deploy that failed due to a race condition: a database migration ran before Postgres finished initializing. The script treated the transient failure as fatal, rolling back unnecessarily. The author advocates for bounded, exponential-backoff retries to handle such normal transient conditions.
Meridian48 take
This is a classic ops lesson that many teams learn the hard way—retry logic is cheap insurance against brittle deploys.
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