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Picture of us…. There has to be one somewhere..

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What is a launch?

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Did I just waste my, my company’s, or my client’s money?

Will the code I, my colleagues, or the agency I hired stand up to the traffic?

Did I do everything I could have done or should have done to make this launch successful?

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How did we get here?

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Establish a chain of command in a launch plan

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By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

- Benjamin Franklin

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Did that just happen?

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DROP TABLE

“Oh no… did we make a back-up?”

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Did you lower that TTL?

Let’s `dig`

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Why is this page cached?

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Who has the cert?

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WP-CLI

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We had all the best intentions when we used:

  • IP Whitelists
  • Maintenance mode

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When to launch?

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Friday is not FriYay

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Graph of traffic from Friday to Tuesday

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