Point of No Return

Definitions

1. The stage at which reversing a technical move is no longer realistic without major cost or disruption. In engineering slang, identifying the point of no return matters because rollout strategy changes once it is crossed.

   In plain English: The stage where turning back is no longer realistically feasible.

   Example: "The team treated the backfill completion as the point of no return because rollback after that would have meant intentionally discarding already-corrected customer state."

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