Nothing screams panic like accidentally deploying an older, broken staging build, that also run outdated database migrations on start, straight to production

This felt like getting vertigo from a video. You know you‘re not there, but it still made it through.

I'll do you one better.

Our product has 2 components, one feeding the data to another. Our customer facing team ran the first component in staging using test data, fed the result to production version of 2nd component and opened 20 support tickets cussing us developers for the shit code we wrote.

From the positive side, it was not on a Friday.