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Dark Launch vs Rolling Deployment

Developers should use Dark Launch when deploying high-risk features, conducting large-scale system changes, or implementing gradual rollouts to minimize disruption and ensure stability meets developers should use rolling deployment in production environments where high availability is critical, such as for web applications, apis, or microservices that cannot afford extended outages. Here's our take.

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Dark Launch

Developers should use Dark Launch when deploying high-risk features, conducting large-scale system changes, or implementing gradual rollouts to minimize disruption and ensure stability

Dark Launch

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Developers should use Dark Launch when deploying high-risk features, conducting large-scale system changes, or implementing gradual rollouts to minimize disruption and ensure stability

Pros

  • +It is particularly valuable in continuous delivery pipelines, microservices architectures, and user-facing applications where reliability is critical, as it allows for safe experimentation and reduces the blast radius of potential failures
  • +Related to: feature-flags, continuous-deployment

Cons

  • -Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case

Rolling Deployment

Developers should use rolling deployment in production environments where high availability is critical, such as for web applications, APIs, or microservices that cannot afford extended outages

Pros

  • +It is particularly useful in cloud-based or containerized setups (e
  • +Related to: continuous-deployment, blue-green-deployment

Cons

  • -Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case

The Verdict

Use Dark Launch if: You want it is particularly valuable in continuous delivery pipelines, microservices architectures, and user-facing applications where reliability is critical, as it allows for safe experimentation and reduces the blast radius of potential failures and can live with specific tradeoffs depend on your use case.

Use Rolling Deployment if: You prioritize it is particularly useful in cloud-based or containerized setups (e over what Dark Launch offers.

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The Bottom Line
Dark Launch wins

Developers should use Dark Launch when deploying high-risk features, conducting large-scale system changes, or implementing gradual rollouts to minimize disruption and ensure stability

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