Deployments

Decoupling Deployments from Releases: The End of the War Room

Remember the sheer dread of the old release day war room? Pizza boxes stacked up, sweaty palms, and everyone praying the monolith wouldn’t crash when the switch was flipped. That kind of white-knuckle event belongs in the past.

The End of No-Deploy Fridays

No-deploy Fridays is one of those rules teams adopt quietly, almost by osmosis. Nobody mandates it. It just becomes the norm because enough people have had their weekends ruined by a production incident that could’ve waited until Monday. I get it. I’ve been there.