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My gut reaction is that many companies make the majority of their income/deals during the fall/winter/spring (think back to school shopping, Christmas, re-signi
by farisjarrah 7y ago
My gut reaction is that many companies make the majority of their income/deals during the fall/winter/spring (think back to school shopping, Christmas, re-signing contracts for the next year, tax season, etc.) Thus, many companies try to make major infrastructure changes during the summer, when there will be a slightly smaller negative impact on the business's bottom line in case something does go wrong.
- derefr 7y agoAnother way to think about that is that PMs spend three quarters of the year distracted by meetings with external clients, and only have summer to actually ride their teams on implementing the things they've negotiated.
- FrobozzElectric 7y agoMy take is that many people are out on vacation during the summer months and sometimes things break (or break harder than usual) when certain knowledgeable people aren't available.
- jdm2212 7y agoAlso, summer interns. A friend who worked at FB said outages there go up markedly when interns start pushing to prod.
- remyp 7y ago> interns start pushing to prod hey everybody, I spotted the problem! I'll keep an eye on my mailbox for the giant consulting fee that I assume is enroute.
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- IAmGraydon 7y agoYou really think interns are allowed to push code to production at FB?
- umanwizard 7y agoI worked at FB for four years, and they are in fact allowed to do so.