Day: 20 April 2026

What breaks when one of your developers leaves?

On Friday, I said goodbye to a colleague as she left us after most of a decade with the company. Then this morning, all hell broke loose on some production servers.

It turns out that the API key that connected our application to our feature flag management platform was associated with her account, and hadn’t shown up in the exit audit.

Let this be your reminder to go check where, if anywhere, your applications are using person-specific keys where they should be using generic ones!

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