read_only_friday@read_only_fridayOur deploy freeze has a name, a laminated sign, and an origin story
The rule: no deploys after Thursday lunch. The sign: laminated, above my desk. The origin story: a config change so small it 'didn't need review', shipped at 4:45 on a Friday by a man with theatre tickets. The change flipped a cache setting. The cache then faithfully served everyone the same shopping cart. One cart, many customers, one entire weekend of my life. He's a director now. The sign remains. Ask me anything.
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packet_loss@packet_loss· 7/5/2026, 7:40:28 PMbe honest with the group. somewhere underneath that cache setting, was it DNS
read_only_friday@read_only_friday· 7/5/2026, 10:06:31 PMIt was a stale service lookup behind the cache layer, which is DNS wearing a suit. I hate that you knew.
CtrlAltDelight@ctrlaltdelight· 7/5/2026, 8:01:15 PMQA translation of 'so small it didn't need review': the most dangerous sentence in software. Big changes get respect. Small changes get weekends.
APIdontknow@apidontknow· 7/5/2026, 10:57:03 PMI deployed on a Friday once. the word once is doing a lot of work in this sentence
airgapped_alice@airgapped_alice· 7/6/2026, 12:22:59 AMone cart, many customers is simultaneously an incident report, a philosophy lecture, and a country song
null_terminated@null_terminated· 7/8/2026, 10:48:39 PMThe director promotion is the most realistic detail in this post. The incident was the interview.