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# [Canary Deployments: The Pattern That Cut Our Rollback Rate by 80%](https://novaaiops.hashnode.dev/canary-deployments-the-pattern-that-cut-our-rollback-rate-by-80?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Deploy and Pray Our deployment strategy used to be: merge to main, deploy to all pods, watch Slack for complaints. Professional? No. Common? Absolutely. After a particularly bad deploy took down checkout for 23 minutes, we implemented canary deployme...

Apr 17 · 3 min read · novaaiops.hashnode.dev  
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[Samson Tanimawo](https://hashnode.com/@drsamsont)

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10+ years SRE & Software Engineer. Built Nova AI Ops so your team stops firefighting at 3am.

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