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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub on Sunday June 03, 2018 @11:22PM (#17224337)
MSFT announced the acquisition of LNKD in June 2016. Your article is from March 2014.
Re:How release canaries can save your bacon on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @01:01AM (#14029606)
A quick rollback frees up the developer's contextual burden and makes it easy to take calculated risks. This works better in some environments, of course. You wouldn't want it in testing a medical support system, for example. LinkedIn goes a bit further and has continuous release monitoring: https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2015/11/monitoring-the...
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