Deploy Friday
Verb Phrase · Hacker Culture
Definitions
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."