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Re:Slack is down by cratermoon on Monday January 04, 2021 @11:48AM (#25633881)
I have definitely worked in places where the times right before and right after a change freeze were the most unstable, so that could be it. However, as others have mentioned, it's pretty early on the west coast of the US. Unless some engineer was up extra early (perhaps at the behest of an anxious project manager) it seems unlikely to be a release.

What it could be is some engineer somewhere coming in after the holiday, noticing a slightly flaky thing, and thinking, "I'll reboot/redeploy/refresh this thing so the flakiness doesn't get worse". Only it turns out the flaky thing was a signal of something else falling over. Or maybe the redeploy was the wrong version because of bad CI/CD, or maybe the person just fat-fingered it.

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Re:Slack is down by ikiris on Monday January 04, 2021 @12:36PM (#25634880)
Most releases are automated with time lockouts.
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Re:Slack is down by cratermoon on Monday January 04, 2021 @01:01PM (#25635293)
In what companies?
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Re:Slack is down by ikiris on Monday January 04, 2021 @03:09PM (#25637159)
Competent ones like those you'd hear about being down on HN.

At least that how it worked at one FAANG

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Re:Slack is down by londons_explore on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @04:40AM (#25643800)
It varies a lot by team... I think it's common to have a single click "start" button to press. It's a good sanity check that a release isn't going to happen during a fire drill, outage, or strike...
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Re:Slack is down by savo92 on Monday January 04, 2021 @12:18PM (#25634513)
Or unless that engineer was not in the US
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Re:Slack is down by cratermoon on Monday January 04, 2021 @12:22PM (#25634590)
Very possible. I don't know what Slack's workforce distribution is. In places I've worked there have definitely been some incidents in US off-hours triggered by someone on the other side of the world.
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