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Not ... a ... chance.

You go through the normal change process like everybody else.

There is no such thing as a "safe" change.

The only exception to this is when stuff is on fire, and, practically by definition at that point, there is no such thing as a "safe" change.



Let me rephrase.

Given a Tech document that addresses the risk of change, the rollback plan, the security implications etc, and a suite of metrics demonstrating load and failure conditions with appropriate alerting. And of course the PR with appropriate test suite, shown to work in a test environment in concert with the rest of the ecosystem, that stuff is just table sakes. convince a director to approve the change. Ideally a director that doesn't report to the same vp as your org.




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