7 Signs Your Release Process Is More Fragile Than You Think

Most of the release processes look good. Pipelines are green, deploys happen all the time, and nothing is on fire. When something breaks, you only see the cracks, and suddenly you’re trying to answer questions that your tooling doesn’t help with.

DORA metrics are speed and stability. But they don't tell you if rollback works, if approvals live outside of Slack, or if the artifact you tested is the one in production. You can hit all four DORA metrics and still be one bad deploy away from a bad day.

Here are seven signs your process is more fragile than you realize. Individually they seem small. But they don't hold up well under pressure together.

1. "Who deployed this?" takes more than a minute to answer

This is asked almost as soon as a serious incident occurs. If you have to go through CI logs, scroll through Slack, or hope...

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