TL;DR: The deployment script had been running fine for six weeks. Then one Tuesday morning it silently corrupted a config file on our staging server because a variable I thought was set...

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The Script That Made Me Look for Something Better

The deployment script had been running fine for six weeks. Then one Tuesday morning it silently corrupted a config file on our staging server because a variable I thought was set... wasn't. The script kept going. No error. No exit. Just a blank value written into a JSON config that downstream services trusted completely.…