Over the years I went from making fun of Windows Admins rebooting to fix everything, to, say, 12 years ago rebooting my unix boxes any time I made a change.
Virtually by definition if I was changing something, it wasn't in production at the moment, and I just learned my life was so much easier if I made sure my changes were really committed to state at the moment I made the change rather than learning it the hard way at 2am 6 months down the road, and desperately trying to remember what I had "fixed" and why.
Granted, these were still pets, but at least they were well-trained pets.
Virtually by definition if I was changing something, it wasn't in production at the moment, and I just learned my life was so much easier if I made sure my changes were really committed to state at the moment I made the change rather than learning it the hard way at 2am 6 months down the road, and desperately trying to remember what I had "fixed" and why.
Granted, these were still pets, but at least they were well-trained pets.