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I'd even argue that the best time to deploy is during the best engineers' working hours. At least you guarantee they're around when/if things go bad.

And by "best", I don't mean all stars (a la Fitzpatrick, Norvig, Pike or other Google celebs), but the engineer who actually followed the whole project/patch from dev environment to production.

> The best time to deploy is the time with the best engineers at the ready.

or to put it simple: not at 1700 on friday.

Absolutely, I started editing in a quip about how unscalable, even for Google, to keep engineers that both want to work on hard problems and stay up until 4am to push/support them. Best time to push, first hours I'm arriving, had a cup of joe, and have had a good night's sleep to work out any further mental bugs.