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Tell me about a change you shipped that you could not roll back. How did you decide to go ahead?

Defend a change with irreversible effects by separating code rollback, data recovery and external correction, with explicit recovery objectives and tested limits.

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Defend a change with irreversible effects by separating code rollback, data recovery and external correction, with explicit recovery objectives and tested limits.

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