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Re:How release canaries can save your bacon by jpatokal on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @05:22AM (#14030813)
But without canaries, you would have complete outages instead of partial ones.
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Re:How release canaries can save your bacon by mrj on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @11:35AM (#14042854)
Sure, but I'm pointing out that this strategy relies on real customers encountering an error. I caution people to not forget that is a failure for us trying to ensure reliable websites.
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