The Friday Deploy
Ship on Friday. Sleep through the night.
About the show
The Friday Deploy is a podcast about shipping software with confidence.
Today, John and Garrett run Flipper Cloud and Fireside. Before that, Garrett built and sold Sifter, and John worked in the dark corners of GitHub. Between them, they’ve spent decades building, shipping, breaking, and fixing software.
Each episode digs into feature flags, deployments, infrastructure, incidents, product decisions, and the practices that let you deploy anytime and still sleep through the night.
Episodes
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Episode 1: Changing the Wheels While the Car Is Moving
September 25th, 2026 | 55 mins 26 secs
AI can write the migration plan, inspect the servers, and even carry the work to the finish line. It still cannot decide what complexity is worth adding. John and Garrett talk about rebuilding Fireside, verifying dangerous changes, and why taste remains the difference between generating code and shipping dependable software.