How to Roll Back a Broken Launch Instead of Fixing It Live

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Preview โ€” The Goal

๐ŸŽฏ The Goal: You shipped the new feature, and now the site is down, checkout is broken, and every minute is costing money and trust. The instinct โ€” frantically editing the live system to fix it NOW โ€” is how small outages become long ones: panicked edits on production are gasoline on the fire. The professional move is humbler and faster: ROLL BACK to the last version that worked, restore service first, and diagnose the failure calmly afterward. Restore first. Investigate second. Fix third.