Everytime we're fixing a bug or adding a new feature, we want it to go live very fast to have happy users at gigmit. Thats why we really love to deploy several times a day. While running a pretty standard Rails stack with Unicorn and handling deployments with Capistrano, we always had a few seconds when the Unicorn workers were restarted. We did this only at night, because it wasn't always sure[1]