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Canary release is the new beta

What's this blog post about?

The term "beta" has evolved from its original purpose of gathering feedback on product features to now signifying that a product is not fully ready for release. Companies like Microsoft, Instagram, and Google have adopted canary releases as an alternative approach to testing new features with a subset of users before full-scale rollout. This helps limit the impact of bugs or issues on the entire user base.

Company
LaunchDarkly

Date published
July 9, 2015

Author(s)
Edith Harbaugh

Word count
304

Hacker News points
None found.

Language
English


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