tag: #reliability

When someone deletes production, the room asks who did it. That is the wrong question. If one person at one terminal with one wrong command can destroy prod, the system that granted that power with no guardrail is the failure, not the human, who is only the last link in a chain of missing controls. Here is why human error is a symptom not a cause, the controls that actually prevent it (least privilege, deletion protection, two-step destructive ops, environment isolation, separate-account immutable backups), and using chaos engineering to test the guardrails before reality does.