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title: "remember rule 4"
description: "I almost for got rules 4 today, rollout when smooth late in the day right before a vacation day (terrible time to deploy I admit not my clearest plan). Race..."
date: 2026-05-20
published: true
tags:
  - ping
template: ping
---


I almost for got <a href="/rules/" class="wikilink" data-title="Rules" data-description="There is no such thing as magic 1. Be ready to roll back live deployments 1. If CI was too fast be suspicious 1. Always be available after a release. 1. No..." data-date="2025-10-30">Rules</a> 4 today, rollout when smooth late in the day right
before a vacation day (terrible time to deploy I admit not my clearest plan).
Race conditions are a b****, all around on this one.  The app I was concerned
about won the race to deploy first and was fine by itself, then another app had
a race condition inside itself that killed it