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by fhd2 424 days ago
I wonder why the rollout is specifically over the weekend. I'd personally do something like that Monday to Wednesday rather than Friday to Sunday. It seems like the kind of thing that needs monitoring and quick reactions - can easily get expensive if something goes wrong.
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Possible that they see lower usage on weekends.
They're already limiting it to one country at first. If they want a slower ramp-up, they can show it to more and more users rather than working weekends. Not to rule it out but this would strike me as a strange reason
Are they really going to need more than a couple people working the weekend to pause/rollback if something goes wrong? It's not like Assistant itself is new, just the broader access is.
On the other hand a huge number of countries have the whole Easter holiday off. Plenty of time to read these articles and sign up to stuff.
Lower WE usage. "Let's see if it crash"
Hm, maybe not lower per se (though I can believe that), but less critical (less likely to be work related)?