The holiday season is upon us and so are change freezes. The engineering tradition to pause deployments during this wonderful, yet understaffed, time of the year can reduce service disruption, even as digital traffic spikes.
But incidents can still happen.
One thing that catches many engineers off guard during change freezes is that services that typically get deployed every day or so can suddenly reveal new failure modes when left running for weeks. This makes intelligent monitoring and rapid response even more critical during the…
