Mar 13 · 13 min read · TLDR: Canary deployment is useful only when the rollout gates are defined before the rollout starts. Sending 1% of traffic to a bad build is still a bad release if you do not know what metric forces rollback. TLDR: Canary is the practical choice when...
Join discussionMar 13 · 12 min read · TLDR: Release safety is an architecture capability, not just a CI/CD convenience. Blue-green, canary, shadow traffic, feature flags, and GitOps patterns exist to control blast radius, measure regressions early, and make rollback fast enough to matter...
Join discussionJul 29, 2025 · 3 min read · “It’s 3 AM. The system’s live. You push an update and suddenly traffic falls off a cliff.” That’s the moment teams stop being heroes. Zero-downtime deployments let you ride out updates in production—without the drama. This post gives you actionable ...
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Mar 17, 2025 · 7 min read · Introduction 🚀 🌟 In today’s cloud-native environments, Canary Deployment stands out as a powerful technique for achieving zero-downtime releases. By incrementally rolling out new application versions, canary deployments reduce risk and ensure a sea...
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Nov 21, 2024 · 6 min read · In today’s digital world, even a few minutes of downtime can cause significant revenue losses, reduce user trust, and damage a brand's reputation. For tech giants like Google, whose services support billions of users globally, maintaining 100% uptime...
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Jul 20, 2024 · 4 min read · Today, I focused on setting up the basics for canary deployment. Project Overview In my day 16 project, I established a canary deployment for a simple web app with Docker and kubernetes (minikube). This method basically enables a phased feature rollo...
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Jul 19, 2024 · 9 min read · This article uses Open Shift GitOps to deploy the Argo Rollouts progressive delivery controller. It walks through a Blue-Green deployment. Blue-Green Deployment is a technique that reduces downtime and risk by running two identical production environ...
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Jul 19, 2024 · 7 min read · This article uses Open Shift GitOps to deploy the Argo Rollouts progressive delivery controller. It walks through a canary deployment. Canary is one of the most popular and widely adopted techniques of progressive delivery, advanced approach to blue/...
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Jul 6, 2024 · 2 min read · Analogy 1: Blue/Green Deployment Imagine a bakery called "Fresh Bakes" that wants to introduce a new cake recipe without disrupting the current sales. They have two identical kitchens: the Blue kitchen (current recipes) and the Green kitchen (new rec...
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Jan 18, 2024 · 8 min read · The primary goal of software developers is to ensure user satisfaction with the features or updates they introduce. However, achieving this goal can be challenging without the right release strategy. The question often asked, then, is, "How can devel...
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