Google Canaries

April 5, 2017 Tech Release Engineering Bookmarks

Google Canaries

There are some interesting release engineering and strategies in Google Cloud’s blog post How release canaries can save your bacon - CRE life lessons.

For example, on canary’ing web clients:

One solution is to version your JavaScript files (first release in a /v1/ directory, second in a /v2/ etc.). Then the rollout simply consists of changing the resource links in your root pages to reference the new (or old) versions.

… which is a great alternative to individually-hashed assets.