Walk the Cutover Gates
Apply explicit cutover gates to avoid emotional go/no-go decisions during migration.
Cutover bridge It is 1:40 a.m. Checkout has moved. Error rate is rising, payments are retrying, and leaders want a confident answer. The goal is not bravery. The goal is to protect user outcomes with thresholds everyone accepted before cutover. Rollback criteria + error budget Proceed, pause, or reverse based on service evidence Cutover gates convert subjective pressure into observable conditions. They should measure business transactions, data health, and rollback viability, not only infrastructure status. Reflex Argue on the bridge until a senior person decides. The team can continue, pause, or reverse without improvising the standard. The earlier you define…
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