I did web dev work for an airline and we couldn't even release new updates to the loyalty benefits website during a weekday (even though there was no connection to operations or flights). The fact that this company would reboot a critical comms server at 3 pm on a Friday is indeed bizarre.

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Rapzid an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I believe not deploying on Friday is an anti-pattern for most software teams.

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luipugs 34 minutes ago | parent [-]

What industries have you seen teams deploy on a Friday afternoon?

	▲	saturn8601 a minute ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Uh I'd imagine any team that mainly has their user base using the product on weekdays would deploy Friday evening so if something goes wrong they have the weekend to fix it.
	▲	mlhpdx 28 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It happens. My company has done a couple dozen production rollouts today, including minutes ago.

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ocdtrekkie an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

IT in corporate is actually more panicked than IT in life safety, because life safety invests more redundant design.

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luxuryballs 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

the update caused the reboot but could that mean the reboot happened due to a prior update? or literally the reboot was FOR the update hmm

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NooneAtAll5 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> we couldn't even release new updates during a weekday

so you were forced to release updates on weekends? isn't that worse?

	▲	gdavisson 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It depends on the schedules of the people who'll have to fix it if something goes wrong. I don't mind working weekends, so when I was in the sysadmin game I always tried to make significant changes late friday/early saturday, so if something went wrong I had the weekend to fix it & clean up. But if the people needed to fix a problem take weekends off, pretty much the opposite schedule applies.
	▲	80fj0348i 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Flights generally peak Mon-Thu due to business flights, weekends are usually lighter unless it's a long holiday weekend.
	▲	margalabargala 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Worse for the employees. Better for the clients.

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ransom1538 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

"3 pm on a Friday is indeed bizarre"

Most likely, they HAD to do it.

	▲	wombatpm 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Probably was scheduled for Thursday evening but was delayed due to the Outlook issues.