[mcfunley]

You're not performing surgery and you're not arguing in court. You're making many mostly-trivial changes to a website, and that process should be trivial enough that it can be learned in a day.

Having people deploy on their first day is a check on the complexity of the process as much as it is intended to educate new employees.

(n.b. I don't work for Etsy anymore, but I still feel compelled to go to the mat on this thing.)