In scalable Software, the need to have a highly efficient staging, testing, development, deployment, and distribution system is very vital. The addition of CANARY ENVIRONMENT will make SDLC very efficient, robust, and scalable.
All the applications in the production stage need to be well coded, well tested, and well deployed, if the integration and deployments are not automated then it may result in a lot of human-based errors which will result in operational losses.
Human error rates can be around 5 percent or even more in inefficient low-tier tech organizations where the management is not tech savvy.
The CANARY ENV is very vital in SDLC and without a canary, it can
be pretty challenging to integrate and deploy applications at scale.
The application load can be from many sources, it can be web traffic, it can be android traffic, it can be ios traffic, it can be OS based hence in a big organization the team is not working only in one platform but are operational across multiple platforms, usually all the large-cap and mid-cap tech companies have been able to automate a lot of SDLC processes to drive efficiency and higher productivity.
CANARY ENV plays a very vital role as once the application/software
is cleared by the QAs, the app can be deployed in a separate canary environment, to, monitor, document, and predict the application’s operational status both in the backend and front end perspective.
In the tech world, it is just pure code crunching via the binary system, hence even a one-bit shift from left to right, or vice versa can result in a chain of errors that will consume a lot of time and resources, hence canary deployments are needed to ensure only high quality and error-free source code hit the production environment.
Once the application is deployed in the CANARY ENV, around 20 percent of the app traffic is transferred to the Canary environment, and if any fault or error is observed a rollback is initiated.
The rollback is initiated so that the dev team can refactor the code and then push it back to the development pipeline.
If the deployment fails to meet the predefined criteria then the rollback will be issued and the ticket will be raised by the IT TEAM.
CANARY ENV will assist in detecting and ensuring the health, reporting anomalies, and bugs, and can issue push notifications to the responsible team so that effective measurable action can be taken.
CANARY ENV renders higher productivity, reduces failovers, increases efficiency, and delivers a smooth feature update paradigm.
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