Blue-Green Deployment
A deployment strategy using two identical environments. Traffic switches from blue (current) to green (new) instantly, with easy rollback.
What is Blue-Green Deployment?
A deployment strategy using two identical environments. Traffic switches from blue (current) to green (new) instantly, with easy rollback.
Blue-Green Deployment is a intermediate-level concept that sits in the DevOps & CI/CD area of system design. Engineers reach for it whenever they need to reason about real-world trade-offs in that space — not just for textbook correctness, but because real production systems at companies like Netflix, Amazon, and Google make these decisions every day.
If you want to go deeper than this definition — with diagrams, code, and a quiz to lock it in — work through the "Blue-Green Deployment" lesson linked below. It walks through the why, the mechanism, the trade-offs, and how the giants actually use it in production.
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CI/CD
Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment: automating the process of testing and deploying code. Push code, tests run, and it ships to production automatically.
Canary Deployment
Rolling out a new version to a small percentage of users first, then gradually increasing. Like sending a canary into a coal mine to test for danger.