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Probably because people think "ah I'll just push this to prod then I'm done for the weekend."
Last place I worked had an explicit ban on Friday deployments for all but emergency purposes just for that reason. Thursday was out as well actually, just so we weren't scrambling to rush to fix things Friday. -
@AlmondSauce Hahahah.. well what about acceptance and regression tests.. oh wait, they have to have a proper CI/CD in the first place..
Nice policy there. -
@CaptainRant you're listing the reasons why I left....
I found the rig of the year.
When people find out the hard truth
True or not? ;)
Why do certain software systems fail on a specific day (Friday/Sunday)? For example, getting error 500 "registration module issues :(" on their part.
Do they have some kind of deployment day then? Even so, this isn't acceptable for today's standards.
Oh, let's cut off our customers from purchasing something on those days. What?
Something leads me to think they're not hosted in the cloud then. Outdated architecture..
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