Happy New Year from MergeFreeze! 🎉 Wishing you a smooth start to 2025—may your deploys be uneventful, your releases confident, and your year full of shipping great work. Here's to a productive year ahead! 🥳

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Q4 2024: $352B in US e-commerce sales. The quarter that makes or breaks your year. And the worst possible time for a production outage. Every deploy is a gamble when your infrastructure is already maxed out. How does your team handle deploys during peak retail season?

Today, we celebrate #Juneteenth, honoring the unwavering spirit of a people. Learn more and join the celebration at @NMAAHC: nmaahc.si.edu/Juneteenth

How do you really feel about your work? A recent study from @lennysan.bsky.social and Noam Segal showed that 84% of tech workers are facing some level of burnout! Surprised? Or relieved you're not alone? Check out their tactical advice to avoid burnout: www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-techs-...

It looks like @rubycentral.org sold out of individual and student tickets for #RailsConf. Here's one last chance to attend: win a free conference ticket! Join us to celebrate the legacy of the world's longest-running Rails community gathering. Enter to win by 6/23. app.youform.com/forms/vmaf9ckb

What questions would YOU want to ask the legends of the Rails community? 👀 For the final #RailsConf, we're bringing together Kinsey, Nadia, Eileen, Marty, Evan & Sarah for a keynote panel on the past, present, and future of Rails. Share your questions for them here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The post-conference glow is still real ✨ We’re deeply grateful to everyone who made Baltic Ruby so special. And now — we need your help. 📝 Fill out the feedback form while the memories are fresh: tally.so/r/m6zVrN Let’s make the next one even better — together!

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Bringing down production is a developer’s rite of passage—like being knighted, except with a 2 a.m. Slack call and fewer swords.⚔️ With Merge Freeze, you can pause the madness, regroup and push code without the 🔥 drill next time. 🥇

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For more than 700 million people worldwide, clean water isn’t accessible. But with technology, organizations like @charitywater.bsky.social can change that. 🌐 This World Water Day, learn how charity: water has collaborated with GitHub to help combat the water crisis. github.blog/open-source/...

Calling all Ruby enthusiasts!! We're giving away FREE tickets to the Helvetic Ruby 2025 conference helvetic-ruby.ch. Here's what you need to do... 1. Follow @mergefreeze.bsky.social 2. Repost OR comment below (maybe why you ❤️ Ruby?!) 3. We'll reach out to the lucky winners in early April.