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Production Post-Mortems
The Unchecked DROP TABLE in Migration Script #104
It was 4:45 PM on a Friday. I ran what I thought was a dry-run SQL script on staging. Turns out my terminal environment variable was pointed to production Postgres. In seconds, customer transaction records were affected.
Always require dual-confirmation prompts and explicit connection string printouts before executing DDL migrations.
Infinite Loop That Overwhelmed Our Auth Endpoint
A missing dependency array item in a useEffect caused active client sessions to send continuous auth validation requests, pinning the OAuth gateway.
Wrap API calls in debounced handlers and implement strict client-side retry exponential backoff.
Hardcoded API Key Committed to Public GitHub
Committed a testing script with a live secret key. Within minutes, automated bots sniffed it and attempted fraudulent requests.
Use Git pre-commit hooks (like gitleaks) and store keys strictly in environment variables.
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