This post seems written assuming that engineers are calling all the shots. If you work at a company like that, great, I envy you. However in a company where e

This post seems written assuming that engineers are calling all the shots. If you work at a company like that, great, I envy you. However in a company where engineering's desire for a stable deploy pipeline with excellent visibility is matched up against business' insistence that all dev hours go into features and SEO improvements and every sprint issue regarding non-user-facing-improvements has to be fought for tooth and nail, "don't deploy on Friday" is a very reasonable compromise for avoiding weekend fires.