• topperharlie@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I mean, if I was a reddit infra engineer (and this is a long shot because I’m not), I would definitely use the “blackout day(s)” for some heavy maintenance or experiments that normally are too scary to do on a high loaded live server.

    (edit: spelling)

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      1 year ago

      Webdev here. When I am blessed with a “we are closed” day on some clients’ websites, I drop everything else so I can get some database cleanup in.