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by more_corn 1279 days ago
Same reason there’s a code freeze around Christmas. Fewer changes means fewer chances to mess things up.

If you fire 80% of the operations staff you better fire 80% of the eng staff too.

As changes get made and released I expect to see some more outages.

Also good staff made the plans and laid the groundwork for resiliency. That work continues to provide benefits after they’ve gone.