Why are you still deploying overnight?

http://briancrescimanno.com/2011/09/29/why-are-you-still-deploying-overnight/

by bcrescimanno • 15 years ago

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ShawnJG2• 15 years ago

I have to completely disagree with this author. Even if you're confident in your code, send your best people to work on it, are able to rollout a phased deployment and have the capability for quick rollback in overnight or off-peak deployment is preferable. If ever there was anything to happen unless people affected by it the better. Why put the strain of peak traffic and bandwidth up against a brand-new deployment?

sixtofour• 15 years ago

You make a good point. So does the article.

What I was wondering while reading the article: when will it become common that there is no peak or off-peak time? There are some businesses there now, but at some point there will be no such thing for most businesses.

bcrescimanno2• 15 years ago

That's a good point that I honestly didn't think to bring up in the article directly--thought I did mention that for businesses operating globally, the notion of "overnight" becomes meaningless.

I think the first commenter took the notion a bit far; I didn't mean to imply that we should be deploying during your absolute busiest hours. However, I think deploying overnight is a bad idea--and, moreover, I think it's dangerous to assume that simply "avoiding your customers" is a scalable, long-term solution for deployment.

Why are you still deploying overnight?

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