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"At first, nothing had gone awry, but at midnight the next day, everything mysteriously started falling over."

Everyone has a test environment and some people have a prod environment too.

If any shop lets their code changes marinate for 24 hours in a test environment then power to you, you have more patience than any developer I've ever worked with. It feels like a uniquely ops-y mentality to roll out changes on the order of days or weeks.

If that change affect something that only occurs once a day, you have no choice but to wait no?

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