Dev Survival Rule No 1

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Dev Survival Rule No 1

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The golden rule of software development: never deploy on Friday. It's basically a Geneva Convention for developers. You push that "merge to production" button at 4 PM on a Friday and suddenly you're spending your entire weekend debugging a cascading failure while your non-tech friends are out living their best lives. The risk-reward calculation is simple: best case scenario, everything works fine and nobody notices. Worst case? You're SSH'd into production servers at 2 AM Saturday with a cold pizza and existential dread as your only companions. Friday deployments are the technical equivalent of tempting fate—sure, it might work, but do you really want to find out when the entire ops team is already halfway through their first beer?

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