Some days I look at the continuous deployment crowd and wonder what they're possibly building that it can't handle a 3 day long feature freeze. I understand th

Some days I look at the continuous deployment crowd and wonder what they're possibly building that it can't handle a 3 day long feature freeze. I understand the need for a well oiled system to identify an emergency and patch it. And do it as quickly and with as little fuss as possible. But if pushing to production should be so smooth it's a "non-event", turning the valve (for non-emergencies) off and on should be "non-events" too. Is the pre-deploy testing so rotten that hitting production is a necessary step in the development loop? Then they should throw away CI/CD infrastructure because they're not using it. It's how they lie to themselves that they're doing something smarter than sshing into production and editing the live source files by hand. Drowning under the technical debt accumulated by 1 workday without pushing? Stop writing code and build a development process, it's obvious none exists.