Kill switches are a safety mechanism used to shut off machinery in an emergency, when it cannot be shut down in the usual manner. Many large sites occasionally have some features that struggle under certain edge cases, often related to third party integrations. A typical use case is that one of the payment providers is currently […]
In this blog post we will look at why feature toggles brings business value into DevOps, and how. We are getting used to have the same software development team taking care of both the development and the operations of the services — it makes perfect sense to have the ones that develop the service, also […]
Canary Deployment is an approach to mitigating the risks of a new update to existing software bringing it to production. This is done by sequentially testing without involving users and then involving a small number of users and when it works fine, deploy it entirely. It is something like releasing a beta version. Deploying a […]