How I established a git branching startegy for a growing startup

The team relied on pushing commits directly to main. I helped team to streamline these commits in delegated branches

The site looked fine. Pages loaded fast, Lighthouse scores were green, the product catalog was live. Then someone Googled one of our 1,000+ products and found nothing — not just a low ranking, nothing. Google’s index for the entire product range: zero pages.

This is the post-mortem.