It was 2:47 AM when the alerts started. A seemingly straightforward database migration had triggered a cascading failure across three downstream services, and our payment processing pipeline was dropping roughly 12% of transactions. The on-call engineer didn't need to wake anyone, locate a rollback script, or wait for a CI pipeline to churn through another deploy. She opened the LaunchDarkly dashb
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