Deploy Friday

Verb Phrase · Hacker Culture

Definitions

  1. The act of deploying code on a Friday, often invoked as a risky or controversial move because recovery time and staffing may be worse going into the weekend. In engineering culture 'never deploy Friday' is both rule and meme.

    In plain English: Deploying code on Friday, usually seen as risky before the weekend.

    Example: "They agreed to deploy Friday only because the change was tiny, the rollback path was instant, and the on-call engineer had explicitly signed off."

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