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Deployment strategies — quick notes

Deployment strategies — quick notes

PatternPurpose
Blue-greenTwo full-capacity environments; route to green at once or progressively; route back to blue
CanarySmall traffic slice first
Ring / progressive exposureWidening audiences over time
A/B testingPrimary purpose: compare variants against outcome metrics, not rollout safety
Feature flagsDecouple release from deployment; kill switch

Traps

  1. A/B testing offered as a risk-reduction answer — it is a product experiment.
  2. A traffic percentage alone does not distinguish canary from blue-green; check whether the design has parallel full-capacity pools.
  3. blueGreen / ringed as strategy: keywords — they do not exist. Only runOnce, rolling, canary.
  4. Fastest rollback for flagged code is turning the flag off, not redeploying.

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