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The PR That Looked Harmless
Five Minutes to 503
The Revert That Couldn't Land
Down the SSH Rabbit Hole
A clean migration PR deleted the old app from main. Nobody documented that production deploys from main every 2 minutes. What followed: a 503, a missing deploy key, an SSH identity crisis, and a tarball-over-S3 rescue. A story about the invisible infrastructure nobody thinks to preserve.
Table of Contents
The PR That Looked Harmless
Five Minutes to 503
The Revert That Couldn't Land
Down the SSH Rabbit Hole

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