Just because <i>all of Google</i> pushes to prod thousands of times a day doesn&#x27;t mean that the team within Youtube pushes to prod that often.  They may have some sort of scheduled deploy cycle and likely a review process.<p>During the holidays they simply may not be staffed up for that process.<p>Just because you <i>can</i> push to prod doesn&#x27;t mean you <i>should</i> push to prod.