Friday Deploy Freezes Are Exactly Like Murdering Puppies
|￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣| Don't push to production |＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿| (___/) || (⌾ㅅ⌾) || / づ
I hadn’t seen anyone say something like this in quite a while. I remember saying things like this myself as recently as, oh, 2016, but I thought the zeitgeist had moved on to continuous delivery.
Which is not to say that Friday freezes don’t happen anymore, or even that they shouldn’t; I just thought that this was no longer seen as a badge of responsibility and honor, rather a source of mild embarrassment. (Much like the fact that you still don’t automatedly restore your db backups and verify them every night. Do you.)
If you're scared of pushing to production on Fridays, I recommend reassigning all your developer cycles off of feature development and onto your CI/CD process and observability tooling for as long as it takes to ✨fix that✨.
