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Fishbone — production bug

Engineering post-mortem framing for a regression that hit prod.

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Why did the regression reach production?Regression in prodPeopleReviewer on PTOSolo on-callProcessSkipped stagingForce-merged hotfixToolsFlaky CINo canaryTestsMissing integration testMocked external APICodeRace conditionSilent type coercion

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title "Why did the regression reach production?"
problem "Regression in prod"
category "People"
  cause "Reviewer on PTO"
  cause "Solo on-call"
category "Process"
  cause "Skipped staging"
  cause "Force-merged hotfix"
category "Tools"
  cause "Flaky CI"
  cause "No canary"
category "Tests"
  cause "Missing integration test"
  cause "Mocked external API"
category "Code"
  cause "Race condition"
  cause "Silent type coercion"