It depends on the cost you would assign to an event. I would sometimes on small code changes just deploy directly and touch-reload the app but I was very reluc

It depends on the cost you would assign to an event. I would sometimes on small code changes just deploy directly and touch-reload the app but I was very reluctant to deviate from protocol given experience. In the mad days before my protocol I once had the site in burning/extinguishing/reigniting cycle for 4 hours. The reason it took so long to figure out what was wrong was that the problematic code was live for 10 days in a section that had to run on each request without a problem. To this day I couldn't tell you why it suddenly started to act up. 4 hours of "House is on FIRE!" will make you cautious.