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It depends on what company you are.

Some who administers some SAP thing for a huge supermarket chain tells me they do all of their upgrades on weekends because their users aren't at work.

Makes sense for them, but it would be a crazy thing to do the consumer-focused interweb company that I work for.

I rewrote an app that used to only deploy on weekends because we do a lot of processing on weekday afternoons and nights. I changed the deployd to the mornings.

I justified as saying if something breaks we have everyone there to fix it. Plus I'm not going to spend my weekend working if I don't have to.

My app has global traffic. Sometimes stuff breaks Sunday night and Asia is the first to find out.

Ugh, I know the feeling - one client I worked for would only do deploys a few times a year if that, and only at night. I mean we'd get extra pay or free time for doing night shifts, but really, it's not good practice.