> Planned downtime is still downtime Isn’t that obvious? Did it really need to be said? What the article misses is that in most cases where I worked with clie

> Planned downtime is still downtime Isn’t that obvious? Did it really need to be said? What the article misses is that in most cases where I worked with clients, downtime was not necessarily for the customer mainly, but for the internal non tech team. You need planned downtime to: have a proper recovery plan in case whatever you’re doing doesn’t work out and you gotta revert, or so that you can work comfortably. I had downtime at different moments day and night and planned downtime during the day or night; planned always wins on so many levels. If you think planned downtime is not downtime, it’s not the strategy’s fault, it’s your own thinking. The whole thermostat thing is really not worthy of addressing. Your technical dependency justifies a feeling, but an opinion is a bit much. At best you can call it a half baked thought. Definitely not worth an “opinion piece”