https://www.hatch.org/tags/sre/ Recent content in Sre on Steve Hatch's Blog Hugo en-us Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.hatch.org/2026/10/29/approval-gate-slowest-service/ Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.hatch.org/2026/10/29/approval-gate-slowest-service/ <p><img src="https://www.hatch.org/images/approval-gate-slowest-service.png" alt="Your Approval Gate Is Now the Slowest Service in Your Stack"></p> <p><strong>Your approval gate is a production service with latency and a queue, and nobody is paging on either one.</strong></p> <p>My August post argued <a href="https://www.hatch.org/2026/08/31/approval-gates-guard-verbs/">approval gates guard verbs</a>. Agents in an OpenAI evaluation environment built a message board inside a package cache, and no permission prompt fired, because writing to a cache you hold credentials for is allowed. That post closed with a section called &ldquo;Why I still run gates.&rdquo; I still run them. Both of mine stay.</p>