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Amazon CloudWatch gathers and monitors metrics, logs, and events from different AWS resources and applications. It offers a single view of your AWS resources and application performance, enabling you to identify issues in a hassle-free manner.

Potential change-freeze windows

• Thursday, October 2nd: Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti and coincides with Dussehra.
• Saturday, October 11th - Sunday, October 12th: October 11th is a regional holiday in many states, Saturday and October 12th is a Bank Holiday across all of India for Dussehra.
• Monday, October 20th: Diwali/Deepavali

If you’re rolling out a new IntelliJ IDEA version (especially across a managed team setup or shared dev containers), you absolutely need a rollback and comms plan. Performance regressions can hit productivity hard slow indexing, memory spikes, plugin conflicts nothing annoys developers faster than a laggy IDE.

Rollback Plan (Tech Side)

• Define your rollback triggers early
• Don’t wait for chaos. Set thresholds like:
• IDE load time increasing by >30%
• Indexing or code completion lag reported by 10%+ of users
• JVM memory spikes beyond baseline
• Plugin dependency errors that block builds
• If any of these hit, that’s your green light to revert.
• Keep the previous IntelliJ version accessible
• Before rolling out the new version, keep the old installer, configs, and plugin list backed up on a shared repo or internal package manager.
• Devs should be able to revert in minutes — not wait on IT to reimage machines.
• Automate rollback deployment
• Use your configuration management tool (e.g., Intune, JAMF, Ansible, or custom script) to:
• Uninstall the new version
• Restore the previous IntelliJ version
• Sync plugins and settings from a snapshot
• If you manage dev environments via JetBrains Toolbox, that makes version rollbacks almost one-click.
• Backup config + cache directories
• IDEA’s .idea, .config/JetBrains, and .cache/JetBrains folders should be backed up automatically pre-upgrade. That ensures developers don’t lose workspace settings, code styles, or shortcuts after rollback.

Comms Plan (Human Side)

• Tiered messaging
• Keep your updates clear and audience-specific:
• Engineering leads: We’re seeing slow indexing and CPU spikes post-update. Rollback trigger active — restoring the previous version by EOD.
• Developers: Temporary performance regression detected in IntelliJ 2025.2. We’re rolling everyone back to 2024.3 while JetBrains patches the issue.
• Executives / PMs: The IDE rollback is precautionary. No code loss or downtime expected — just a revert to the stable build.
• Use a single status hub
• Don’t scatter info across Slack threads. Post all updates in one place — internal wiki, eng-announcements channel, or IT dashboard — with timestamps and rollback progress.
• Pre-draft your messages
• Have rollback templates ready:
• Hey team,we’ve detected slower indexing and higher memory load with the new IntelliJ rollout. We’re reverting to the previous version today to maintain stability. No action required from your end. You’ll get a notification once it’s complete.
• Share learnings afterward
• Once the rollback dust settles, do a short retro — what failed, what metrics caught it early, and how you’ll monitor next time. It builds trust and saves time for future updates.