read-only Friday

expression

ops culture

The ops tradition of making no production changes on Friday, because weekends exist.

A deploy at five on Friday has a way of becoming a Saturday incident with half the team unreachable. Mature CI/CD teams argue the rule away - if deploys are that risky, fix the deploys - but the instinct it encodes is respect for blast radius and for people's time off.

Also known as: no-deploy Friday

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