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Software engineers half-jokingly avoid one particular day of the week for a very specific, high-stakes kind of action.
Deploying means shipping finished code out to the live servers that real users actually access, making whatever changes were built available in production rather than just on a developer's own machine or a test environment. Because a mistake in deployed code can break something users are actively relying on, immediately and visibly, teams historically treated deployment as high-stakes, giving rise to the joking rule of avoiding deploys right before a weekend when problems would be harder to fix.
Printing code and handing out physical copies, or dispatching troops, are both literal or unrelated readings of the word that have nothing to do with actual software deployment.
Modern continuous integration and deployment, often called CI/CD, has changed this culture significantly, with many teams now deploying dozens of times a day through automated, well-tested pipelines rather than treating each deploy as a rare, nerve-wracking event.
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