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No Observability Strategy — Flying Blind in Production

Something is wrong in production. Response times spiked. Users are complaining. You SSH into a server and grep logs. You have no metrics, no traces, no dashboards. You''re debugging a distributed system with no instruments — and you will be for hours.

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No Rate Limiting — One Angry User Can Take Down Your API

A user sends 10,000 requests per minute to your API. No rate limiting. Your server CPU spikes to 100%. Your database runs out of connections. Every other user sees 503s. One script can take down your entire service — and it happens more often than you think.

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No Rollback Strategy — The Deploy That Can't Be Undone

Error rate spikes after deploy. You need to roll back. But the migration already ran, the old binary can''t read the new schema, and "reverting the deploy" means a data loss decision. Rollback is only possible if you design for it before you deploy.

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