Friday vs. Midweek: When’s the Best Day to Deploy?

Picking the right day to deploy software is not as easy as one might think. There are many factors impacting this decision, both internal and external. This article presents opinions from DevOps practitioners on what they see as the optimal day to deploy software.

Luke Philips, the owner of Patrick Consulting and a former Staff Software Engineer at a major publishing company, jokes that the classic practice in the organization he worked for was to deploy on Friday and have all weekend to fix the outage.

But jokes aside, the desire to shield…