Manual Testing Only
Zero automated tests. The team has no idea where to start and the codebase was not designed for testability.
9 minute read
Tag: Deployment-Automation
Missing Deployment Pipeline
Builds and deployments are manual processes. Someone runs a script on their laptop. There is no automated path from commit to production.
11 minute read
Manual Deployments
The build is automated but deployment is not. Someone must SSH into servers, run scripts, and shepherd each release to production by hand.
11 minute read
Snowflake Environments
Each environment is hand-configured and unique. Nobody knows exactly what is running where. Configuration drift is constant.
9 minute read
Blind Operations
The team cannot tell if a deployment is healthy. No metrics, no log aggregation, no tracing. Issues are discovered when customers call support.
9 minute read
Change Advisory Board Gates
Manual committee approval required for every production change. Meetings are weekly. One-line fixes wait alongside major migrations.
10 minute read
Premature Microservices
The team adopted microservices without a problem that required them. The architecture may be correctly decomposed, but the operational cost far exceeds any benefit.
7 minute read
Distributed Monolith
Services exist but the boundaries are wrong. Every business operation requires a synchronous chain across multiple services, and nothing can be deployed independently.
8 minute read
Multiple Services Must Be Deployed Together
Changes cannot go to production until multiple services are deployed in a specific order during a coordinated release window.
4 minute read
The Team Is Afraid to Deploy
Production deployments cause anxiety because they frequently fail. The team delays deployments, which increases batch size, which increases risk.
4 minute read
Releases Are Infrequent and Painful
Deploying happens monthly, quarterly, or less. Each release is a large, risky event that requires war rooms and weekend work.
3 minute read
Pipelines Take Too Long
CI/CD pipelines take 30 minutes or more. Developers stop waiting and lose the feedback loop.
3 minute read
Staging Passes but Production Fails
Deployments pass every pre-production check but break when they reach production.
3 minute read