This reminds me of the journalist working for months on uncovering Trump's dirty business just for Trump himself to admit the entire thing in a tweet.

If you do use terraform, for the love of god do NOT use Terraform Cloud. Up there with Github in the list of least reliable cloud vendors. I always have a "break glass" method of deploying from my work machine for that very reason.

Off topic, and I don't want to knock the presenter here, but if you're ever going to give a public talk or presentation at work _please_ review the Death By Powerpoint slide deck[0] first.

[0] https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/death-by-powerpoint/855...

Like any company over a handful of years old, I'm sure they have super old, super critical systems running they dare not touch for fear of torching the entire business. For all we know they were trying to update one of those systems to be more resilient last night and things went south.

I became one of the founding engineers at a startup, which worked for a little while until the team grew beyond my purview, and no good engineering plan survives contact with sales directors who lie to customers about capabilities our platform has.