Love how you framed blast radius as business impact rather than just technical scope. The guardrails vs gates distinction is critical and I've seen too many teams default to gates becuase they're easier to implement. In practice, guardrails require way more upfront design work but pay dividends in velocity once they're running. One thing I'd add about break-glass access is the importance of post-incident reporting, we've found that requiring a writeup within 24 hours of break-glass use dramatically reduces unnecessary invocations.
Love how you framed blast radius as business impact rather than just technical scope. The guardrails vs gates distinction is critical and I've seen too many teams default to gates becuase they're easier to implement. In practice, guardrails require way more upfront design work but pay dividends in velocity once they're running. One thing I'd add about break-glass access is the importance of post-incident reporting, we've found that requiring a writeup within 24 hours of break-glass use dramatically reduces unnecessary invocations.
Thank you @The AI Architect . I would update the article about break glass. Thank you for sharing the knowledge.