All the World's A Staging Server
summary
Claim: maintaining an identical staging environment is impossible so teams staging is a lie and should instead deploy into production while hiding work with feature flags and targeting. Concrete tools and tactics include launch darkly style flags, traffic shaping, progressive cutovers and degraded UI. Example: Best Buy’s Black Friday outage is mitigated by throttling percent of users; engineering analog: Opportunity was built for 90 days and ran 15 years by being loosely coupled.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:40Deployment vs Release
- 2:50Production is never perfect
- 4:50The lie of staging
- 7:40Unknowns
- 9:15Superposition
- 10:40Continuous Integration
- 12:05Dark Launching
- 13:50Best Buy
- 16:25Integration Testing
- 17:50Opportunity
- 19:27Objections
