Matt and Charity talk about Friday Deploys and try to answer the question "do we need them?"

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Charity Majors on Twitter // honeycomb.io
Matt Swanson on Twitter // arrows.to

Friday deploy freezes are exactly like murdering puppies
Coaching tree
Frequency Reduces Difficulty (Martin Fowler)
Payoff space vs consistency space
Blame-aware postmortem
DORA metrics