
Blue-Green vs Canary Deployments: Tradeoffs, Tooling, and When Each Fits
Blue-Green vs Canary Deployments: Tradeoffs, Tooling, and When Each Fits
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Blue-Green vs Canary Deployments: Tradeoffs, Tooling, and When Each Fits

The Invisible SPOF Every engineering org has a single point of failure that nobody lists...

Most Teams Use Feature Flags Wrong They wire up LaunchDarkly or Unleash, use it for two...

The Deploy Fear We deployed once a week. On Thursdays. With a 2-hour deployment window....

Deploy and Pray Our deployment strategy used to be: merge to main, deploy to all pods,...

The Invisible SPOF Every engineering org has a single point of failure that nobody lists...

Most Teams Use Feature Flags Wrong They wire up LaunchDarkly or Unleash, use it for two...

The Deploy Fear We deployed once a week. On Thursdays. With a 2-hour deployment window....

Deploy and Pray Our deployment strategy used to be: merge to main, deploy to all pods,...
In Q3 2024, our team’s blue-green deployments caused 3 production outages in 6 weeks, costing $142k...
In 2024, 73% of engineering teams report that manual Kubernetes deployments cause at least one...
Stop Cargo-Culting Shadow Deployments: I’ve Seen Them Kill Production We’ve been sold a lie....