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Show HN: Deployment freezes for GitHub environments (DeployFreeze)

https://www.deployfreeze.com/

Hi HN; I built DeployFreeze after getting tired of engineers frantically pinging “@here, don’t deploy product-service” during incidents and investigations.DeployFreeze is a GitHub App that creates deployment freezes using GitHub’s custom deployment protection rules (https://docs.github.com/en/actions/how-tos/deploy/configure-...). It pauses deployments to specific environments without blocking...

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the story is a Rorschach test for your politics -- if big bad globalist bankers control everything, of course they allow their own people to be slaughtered for financial gain
It seems like they are specifically targeting engineers at big co's with learning budgets rather than people paying out of pocket. Much cheaper than sending an engineer to a conference