| ▲ | whatever1 3 months ago | ||||||||||||||||
Why does a startup need zero-downtime-deployment? Who cares if your site is down for 5 seconds? (This is how long it takes to restart my Django instance after updates). | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | valenterry 3 months ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Because it increases development speed. It's maybe okay to be down for 5 seconds. But if I screw up, I might be down until I fix it. With zero-downtime deployment, if I screw up, then the old instances are still running and I can take my time to fix it. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | everfrustrated 3 months ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
If you're doing CD where every push is an automated deploy a small company might easily have a hundred deploys a day. So you need seamless deployments. | |||||||||||||||||
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