The team has been working on a large project since February, and today we finally deployed the first part of it. Mostly we do no-downtime deployments but this time we made such deep-going changes that we would have to shut down the system for the deployment. The client absolutely would not accept any downtime during normal working hours, so we deployed at 5:30 in the morning. By the afternoon (when we celebrated with some cake) we were pretty knackered, and the celebration wasn’t exactly lively.