A log in a bog.If you’re running mission-critical software, how do you minimize the risk of it breaking during these difficult times? Releases cause problems, so it can be tempting to require an approval of each release by a change advisory board. You could even declare a deployment freeze: no new versions of the software can be deployed unless absolutely necessary. Releases are inherently risky and a freeze does reduce this risk by making the releases rarer. On the other hand, it makes the...
