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Yeah, I've always taken it as a given that internal business applications deploy on Friday evening, public (non-revenue generating) apps deploy on a Monday/Tuesday during the day, and public (revenue generating) apps deploy during lowest use.
"Don't deploy on Fridays" is honestly new (within the last 5 years) to me. We all know the danger is something goes wrong... but that's why you test it first.
If the internal app is messed-up, that gives you 2 days without users, and a strong incentive to get the PO to make the call on whether or not something is critical. If it's not critical, enjoy your weekend. If it is, yep, the team's working for the weekend. Then you REALLY need to retrospect on your testing practices, and how this critical flaw made it to prod.
If low usage occurs at 2AM EST on a revenue generator, then that's just when the deployment needs to happen. You better believe I've tested that thing into the ground, cause nobody wants to wake the whole team up for a problem.
I'm the last person to say it's OK to take developer's personal time, and the first one to say "let's try and avoid late nights" but sometimes the nature of the job calls for it, just like doctors and lawyers. The key is the employer recognizing it and arranging comp time, late starts, etc.
If you're afraid of deploying to production for any reason (not just anxious... everyone should have a little anxiety any time prod changes... it keeps us on our toes and away from the "Just push to prod, it'll be fine" mentality), then there's something off in the process that needs to be addressed.
Addendum: This is all assuming they aren't in a CI/CD environment... which many MANY places are not. A lot of places deploy at the end of a sprint, and God help you if you're in a monthly, bi-monthly or quarterly release shop. Again... the testing should be there to allay those fears though.
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Yeah, I've always taken it as a given that internal business applications deploy on Friday evening, public (non-revenue generating) apps deploy on a Monday/Tuesday during the day, and public (revenue generating) apps deploy during lowest use.
"Don't deploy on Fridays" is honestly new (within the last 5 years) to me. We all know the danger is something goes wrong... but that's why you test it first.
If the internal app is messed-up, that gives you 2 days without users, and a strong incentive to get the PO to make the call on whether or not something is critical. If it's not critical, enjoy your weekend. If it is, yep, the team's working for the weekend. Then you REALLY need to retrospect on your testing practices, and how this critical flaw made it to prod.
If low usage occurs at 2AM EST on a revenue generator, then that's just when the deployment needs to happen. You better believe I've tested that thing into the ground, cause nobody wants to wake the whole team up for a problem.
I'm the last person to say it's OK to take developer's personal time, and the first one to say "let's try and avoid late nights" but sometimes the nature of the job calls for it, just like doctors and lawyers. The key is the employer recognizing it and arranging comp time, late starts, etc.
If you're afraid of deploying to production for any reason (not just anxious... everyone should have a little anxiety any time prod changes... it keeps us on our toes and away from the "Just push to prod, it'll be fine" mentality), then there's something off in the process that needs to be addressed.
Addendum: This is all assuming they aren't in a CI/CD environment... which many MANY places are not. A lot of places deploy at the end of a sprint, and God help you if you're in a monthly, bi-monthly or quarterly release shop. Again... the testing should be there to allay those fears though.