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What Is a Canary Release?

Performing a canary release helps improve your final release for end users ahead of a much larger rollout. 

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5 cloud deployment models: which one is right for you?

Whenever you hear about the “cloud” or “cloud computing,” you think about computing resources that someone else manages. But that’s just one of the few cloud deployment models.

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Git Branching Strategies vs. Trunk-Based Development

This article will first review the benefits and shortcomings of several common Git branching strategies. Then, we’ll compare those to trunk-based development to learn how the latter solves those shortcomings and enables modern software delivery practices through feature flag management.

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Software Release Management: Strategies & Best Practices

Release management is the process of optimizing all stages of launching a software product or feature. As enterprise software delivery becomes faster and more complex, release management is essential to meet deadlines without sacrificing quality.  

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Test environments 101: definition, types, and tests

This post explores test environments from the ground up. Not only will you learn what a test environment is, but you'll also discover how best to set up one in the era of continuous deployment. Then we'll discuss how best to manage them.

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Testing in production to stay safe and sensible

“Testing in production” refers to the practice of running code on production servers, using real data from real users, without showing the new behavior to the majority of users. These tests are frequently run during the final stages before releasing the software to a broad audience.

Heidi Waterhouse

Blue-green deployment 101: how to reduce deployment risk

A blue-green deployment is an application release strategy for safely updating apps in production with no downtime.

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Trunk-Based Development 101: How to Get Started

What Is Canary Testing? Benefits, Challenges & How to Get Started

The only guide to dark launching you’ll ever need

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Feature Toggle vs Feature Flag: Is There a Difference?

The evolution of feature toggles to feature flags and what it holds for the future of software development.

Jesse Sumrak

Continuous Development: ‘Times Are a-Changin'

Adam Zimman

Feature branching using feature flags

Justin Baker

Canary Launches: How and Why to Canary Release

Edith Harbaugh

Feature Flag Testing—Strategies & Example Tests

In this post, we will discuss some of the challenges with testing in a world of feature flags and provide some recommendations for how to address these challenges.

Lev Lazinskiy

Testing in Production the Netflix Way

Andrea Echstenkamper

What Are Feature Flags?

Feature flags let you enable or disable a feature without modifying source code or redeploying.

Brian Rinaldi