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For those saying that the parent comment is crazy, or not applicable to "real businesses" - nearly every production push at Google is done during the normal wor
by aiiane 12y ago
For those saying that the parent comment is crazy, or not applicable to "real businesses" - nearly every production push at Google is done during the normal workday hours of the respective development team (which means most of them happen between 9am-5pm PST).
The benefit of having the engineering team around to troubleshoot smaller-scale issues before they turn into large-scale outages vastly outweighs the small benefit of potentially moving the extremely rare massive outage to a less busy time of day.