Talking about deploying to production on Fridays is a controversial issue. Some companies has strict policies about that, while others are much more agile and has no problem with it.
Personally, I think it depends on many factors: the kind of change, the impact it could have, how good and automated is your process (I mean applying a change, test and deploy, etc), how company is organised in teams, etc.
I would like to start an "initiative" 😅 to know how many developers deploys to production on Fridays, because of this, every time you deploy something to production on Friday publish a tweet with the #deployFridayFest hashtag.
Cheers !
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We've changed deployment to Weds from Friday. Helps us fix issues during deployment, create emergency changes for our Change Approval Board to approve (they happen everything Thursday) and it's just less stress on our Friday.
We use a special methodology to tell us whether a deployment on a Friday should go ahead: