Su Glasgo

When Production Goes Sideways

Imagine this: It’s 2 AM, your phone buzzes with an alert, and your dashboards are screaming. Production is down. Sound familiar? An automated health check has failed, and your internal dashboards are showing a spike in errors. You’ve just pushed a new release that included a critical database schema change, and a background worker task that relies on it is now failing. The web application is still running, but users are starting to report issues. You need to investigate and fix the problem, but doing so on a running production dyno could be risky and…