preventing Cover-Your-Ass engineering
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Company describes a blameless culture that celebrates failure so teams are honest about mistakes and learn from them. Engineering practices include 35 pushes daily and continuous deployment, which clashes with Postgres stored procedures that resist quick edits. The response is a migration to MySQL with automatic failover and replicas yielding no downtime, plus an in-house ORM that translates changes into shard statements — built and working in production.
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