Don't you think it's kind of inappropriate to respond to a serious accusation with a marketing statement about the technical architecture of your site?
I mean, sure, before reading this I thought Etsy was cool because of the continuous deployment thing, but now I think two things:
1. perhaps continuous deployment leads to launching features without thinking about their consequences for long enough;
2. Etsy's team is more interested in thumping its chest about continuous deployment than owning up to a serious mistake.
Perhaps you're right. My comment was primarily intended to link to the explanation of the change we made to address some of the concerns people had. Plugging CI was probably not necessary, though this is hacker news and so I thought it was relevant to the discussion.
I mean, sure, before reading this I thought Etsy was cool because of the continuous deployment thing, but now I think two things:
1. perhaps continuous deployment leads to launching features without thinking about their consequences for long enough; 2. Etsy's team is more interested in thumping its chest about continuous deployment than owning up to a serious mistake.