Exactly, everyone makes mistakes. Sometimes huge ones. In hindsight or on the sidelines it's always easy to point out a few technical things that WOULD HAVE avo

Exactly, everyone makes mistakes. Sometimes huge ones. In hindsight or on the sidelines it's always easy to point out a few technical things that WOULD HAVE avoided catastrophe, but does that help? I think not (aside from a cautionary parable for interns). Things are complicated, people are human and forget things, there are pressures to "get it done" and override the guardrails. Everybody has horror stories. Some worse than others. Welcome to the OP's day of horror. I would think "Silicon Valley" dev-ops horror stories make this one seem like a triviality.