
What Happens to Your Infrastructure When Your Only DevOps Engineer Quits
Single points of human failure are the most common infrastructure risk we see in audits. Here is what they look like when they materialise.
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Single points of human failure are the most common infrastructure risk we see in audits. Here is what they look like when they materialise.

A fragile codebase rarely kills a round outright. It does something quieter: it hands the investor negotiating leverage they did not have before.

These five problems appear in almost every startup we audit. None requires a rewrite to fix. Each has a focused solution that takes one to two days.