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Imagine launching a brand-new aircraft — would you invite every passenger aboard without a test flight? Of course not. Instead, engineers would first test with a few pilots, then expand the testing phase before fully certifying it for public use. Similarly, when deploying software, releasing everything at once can be risky. This is where canary deployments and progressive rollouts take centre stage — acting as your test pilots for safer, smarter releases. The Need for Safer Deployments In traditional release models, new versions of applications were often deployed to all users simultaneously. While this might sound efficient, a single undetected…
