My credit union tells me their website will be down Saturday night for upgrades. This not only means that they don't have a good DevOps-style rapid release CI/CD system, but that they have no respect for their IT group who should not have been required to spend this week and the entire weekend planning for the upgrade. They should be spending this weekend at the movie theater watching the force awakens.
This is disrespectful of their employees and shows a lack of good management. How could management expect people to focus on a critical upgrade this week?
DevOps isn't just a software release methodology. It is a way to make your work environment predictable, stress-free, and pleasant.
Maybe the IT staff are people who don't like crowds and weren't planning to see the movie until after the 25th so that the initial standing room only will be down to just mostly crowded.
Or maybe they are Star Trek people.
[If the Credit Union is like others.. this was planned months in advance and only has a small window of getting done between year end reporting and beginning of month reporting. It also can't be done during the day because the databases were new when Nixon was President (even if the bank is only 4-5 years old they support some god awful old stuff from other orgs.]