Friday Deployments: A Horror Story 💀

It was 4:55 PM on a Friday at SpookyCloud Inc.. Alice, the lead developer, stretched her arms and smiled.

"Just one last deployment before the weekend!" she said.

Bob, the DevOps engineer, looked up in horror. "Wait... you’re deploying on a Friday?"

"Relax, it’s just a small update. What could go wrong?" Alice laughed as she ran:

git push origin main

☠️ Big mistake.

🚨 The Chaos Begins

At 5:02 PM, alerts flooded Slack:

🔥 500 Internal Server Error!

🔥 Database connection failed!

🔥 API Gateway timeout!

The production site was down.

Bob frantically checked the logs:

kubectl logs -l app=backend --tail=20

👀 ERROR: Missing database migration

Alice gasped. "Oh no... I forgot to apply the migration!"

Bob tried to roll back:

kubectl rollout undo deployment backend

⚠️ FAILED: Image not found

😨 The rollback failed. They were trapped.

By 7:30 PM, Bob and Alice were still debugging. Their Slack statuses changed to:

🛠️ “Fixing production 😭”

By 9:45 PM, the CTO joined the call:

"Why are we down? Who pushed to main on a Friday?"

Alice turned pale. She felt a chill down her spine.

"It was me... I thought it was safe..." she whispered.

The CTO sighed. "Well, guess what? We’re all working late now."

By 1:15 AM, they finally fixed the issue. The site was back, but their weekend was ruined.

🕵️‍♂️ Never deploy on a Friday.

📋 Test in staging first.

🔄 Always have a rollback plan.

🛑 Feature flags are your friend.

Do you really want to risk your weekend?

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