Christchurch Python Meetup - October 2026
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Topic: TOGA: Checklists and Safety Measures for "Yoloing" in Prod
Changes are scary. Changes in production are scarier, especially if you haven’t done them before. Ideally, you’d have pipelines and staging environments, and everything just gets handled automatically.
Unfortunately, reality isn’t always ideal, and you’re faced with having to “yolo” a change; implementing something without waiting for everything to be perfect.
The aviation industry has spent decades operating safely in environments where not everything is known in advance. It relies on shared attitudes, behaviours, and simple checklists to help people make good decisions under pressure.
In this talk, I’ll draw on those ideas and apply them to platform engineering, looking at how to recognise when to commit to a change and when it’s safer to abort and try again.
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