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Four of Pentacles
"The Frozen Config"
Pentacles · Infrastructure▲ Upright 0
Nothing has changed in production in four weeks and you are calling that stability. The Four of Pentacles is the config freeze, the change moratorium, the team that has decided the safest deploy is no deploy. Sometimes this is wisdom. Today it might just be fear.
▽ Reversed 0
Someone changed a config value in prod without a PR, a review, or a Slack message. The Four of Pentacles reversed is the untracked mutation — the environment variable edited in the console at 11pm that will take three engineers four hours to find next Tuesday.