Something I wish someone had told me five years...

LinkedIn Draft — Insight (2026-04-03) Something I wish someone had told me five years earlier: Zero-downtime deployments: what 'zero' actually requires most teams don't have Most teams say they do zero-downtime deploys and mean 'we haven't gotten a complaint in a while.' Actually measuring it reveals the truth: connection drops, in-flight request failures, and cache invalidation spikes during rollouts that nobody's tracking because nobody defined what zero means. What 'zero downtime' actually re