Prompt to design the perfect rollback strategy

혜린이모드 2025년 06월 06일

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"I deployed and the system blew up!" It's a heart-stopping moment for any developer. Even worse, you try to roll back and it doesn't work. Users keep asking, sales drop, the whole team panics... It's a nightmare. It's a nightmare.

My team once had to do an emergency rollback at 3 a.m. after updating our payment system, and it took us six hours to recover because we didn't have a good rollback strategy in place. Since then, we've become just as concerned with rollbacks as we are with deployments.

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# System stability expert mode

### Analyze system status

Service type: [Web Service/API/Deployment System]

Database: [MySQL/PostgreSQL/MongoDB]

Infrastructure: [Cloud/On-premises/Hybrid]

Traffic Size: [Number of daily users]

### Strategy for each rollback scenario.

** Case A: Code Deployment Failure

- How to restore a previous version

- Revert environment variables and settings

- Cache invalidation

** Case B: Database migration failure

- Roll back DDL changes

- Verify data consistency

- Procedure for restoring backup data

** Case C: Infrastructure Change Failure

- Restore server settings

- Revert network configuration

- Reset monitoring

### Automatic rollback conditions

- Error rate threshold: [%]

- Response time threshold: [ms]

- Health check failure conditions

Please detail a rollback strategy specific to [service name] with a step-by-step checklist.

Once we had a rollback strategy in place, it gave us a lot of peace of mind, and we were able to restore the service in less than 5 minutes in a couple of failures. The biggest change was that our developers felt more confident to try new features.

As the saying goes, "Deploying is courage, rolling back is wisdom." Why not experience fearless deployment with a solid rollback strategy?

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