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Production Blueprint · Industry-standard pattern

Release strategies: shipping safely and rolling back fast

Deploying and releasing are different things. A deployment puts new code on servers; a release exposes it to users. The strategy you choose decides how much risk each release carries and how quickly you can undo it.

Load balancer / ingressKubernetesCI/CDMonitoringFeature flags

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Here is what's inside:

  • A canary release, with the decision points
  • Blue/green: two full environments and a switch
  • Running a canary release
  • Which strategy, and when
  • Where releases go wrong
  • The interview talk track
  • What I'd improve next

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