I was in the war room at 2 AM, staring to the aftermath of what was supposed to be our next evolutionary leap.
We pushed the final piece of our cloud migration at midnight.
By 12:07 AM, 60% of our customers couldn’t log in.
By 12:15 AM, the rollback plan failed because the servers it was meant to restore to didn’t even exist anymore.
Despite the thorough migration plan, the old system was gone … extinct in a single night, and our “evolved” architecture had nowhere to run.
We didn’t anticipate the blind spots, and the post-mortem read like a crime scene report where we were both the victim and the suspect.
That’s when I realised Darwin’s theory applied to software too: Software behaves like living organisms.