Deployment
Post #4981, on Nov 1, 2022 in TG
The Friday Afternoon Production Deploy
Description
This is an animated GIF of the iconic 'Homer Backs into Hedges' meme from The Simpsons. The short, looping clip shows the character Homer Simpson slowly and deliberately backing into a large green hedge until he is completely hidden from view. In the tech world, this GIF is the universal symbol for a developer's behavior immediately after deploying a risky change, especially right before the weekend. It perfectly captures the feeling of wanting to quietly disappear and become unreachable, hoping to avoid the inevitable pager alerts and frantic Slack messages if the deployment goes wrong. It's a visual metaphor for the 'deploy and pray' mentality
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The three stages of a Friday deployment are: 1. `git push heroku master`. 2. Mute all Slack channels. 3. Back slowly into the weekend
Walked in glowing like Gandalf the White; by the first stand-up I’d already reverted to Gandalf the Gray after discovering the “greenfield” is a 900-k-line Ant build still living in SVN
Day one wearing the “senior” title: laptop imaging, Okta pending, yet three teams already queue with ‘quick ones’ about the monolith, a flaky Kafka consumer, and a red Grafana - apparently my wizard staff is just kubectl
First day as “Senior”: walked in like Gandalf the White, spent the rest of the day casting “you shall not pass” on prod deploys with feature flags, and inheriting the 2009 Perl daemon that secretly runs the company
Noice Comment deleted
What is QA's title? Also junior? Then I can believe it. Comment deleted
QA - quality assurance. Comment deleted
If still doesn't clear, check Google... Comment deleted
I've started seeing jedi avas too frequently Comment deleted