Limit your blast radius with automated canary analysis

Mar 22, 2018 by Armory

Isaac Mosquera, Armory’s CTO, recently gave a talk at Atlassian’s Mountain View office for LaunchDarkly’s Test In Production Meetup.

Isaac talks about how using automated canary analysis is a way to limit the blast radius of issues in production while increasing development productivity, reducing risk and keeping developers happy. You can learn more about canary deployments here.

Speaking of LaunchDarkly — if you’d like to learn more about feature flags (and how they’re different than, and complimentary to, canary deployments) we recommend this Armory blog post or this LaunchDarkly blog post.

Share this post:

Recently Published Posts

How to Become a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Jun 6, 2023

A site reliability engineer (SRE) bridges the gap between IT operations and software development. They understand coding and the overall task of keeping the system operating.  The SRE role originated to give software developers input into how teams deploy and maintain software and to improve it to increase reliability and performance. Before SREs, the software […]

Read more

Continuous Deployment KPIs

May 31, 2023

Key SDLC Performance Metrics for Engineering Leaders Engineering leaders must have an effective system in place to measure their team’s performance and ensure that they are meeting their goals. One way to do this is by monitoring Continuous Deployment Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).  CD and Automated Tests If you’re not aware, Continuous Deployment, or CD, […]

Read more

What Are the Pros and Cons of Rolling Deployments?

May 26, 2023

Rolling deployments use a software release strategy that delivers new versions of an application in phases to minimize downtime. Anyone who has lived through a failed update knows how painful it can be. If a comprehensive update fails, there are hours of downtime while it is rolled back. Even if the deployment happens after hours, […]

Read more