SLO-Driven Automated Rollback: Let the Metrics Pull the Cord
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A deploy that breaks production at 02:00 shouldn't wait for a human to wake up, read a dashboard, and decide to roll back. If you can define what "broken" means in terms your monitoring can measure, you can let the pipeline pull the cord itself. This post walks through wiring observability into deployment so that an SLO breach triggers an automatic rollback.