Deployment Strategy Comparison: Rolling, Blue-Green, Canary

Compare rolling, blue-green and canary deployments for your app, traffic, risk and database changes, then pick one.

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Compare deployment strategies. Application and architecture: [APPLICATION]. Traffic and risk: [TRAFFIC_AND_RISK]. Infrastructure: [INFRASTRUCTURE]. Database changes: [DATABASE_CHANGES].

Explain rolling, blue-green and canary releases in plain words, with a table of cost, risk, rollback speed and complexity for my case. Address database compatibility: changes must work with old and new code at the same time. Recommend one approach, with the metrics that would stop a canary, such as error rate above a threshold for five minutes.

Return the recommendation, a step plan, a rollback plan and a rehearsal checklist. Avoid features that my infrastructure cannot support; list questions if unclear.

Add a worked canary example with invented numbers. Release to 5 percent of traffic for 15 minutes. The baseline error rate is 0.4 percent; abort if the canary exceeds 1.0 percent for five consecutive minutes or if latency at the 95th percentile rises by more than 30 percent. If healthy, move to 25 percent for 30 minutes, then 100 percent. Show how many requests this would involve at my traffic and whether the sample is large enough to detect a problem; with 100 requests per minute, 5 percent is only 5 requests a minute, which is too few to see a rate change quickly, so propose a longer observation window or a larger share. Describe database compatibility with an example: add a new column first, deploy code that writes both old and new columns, backfill, switch reads, then remove the old column in a later release. Provide a rollback decision tree: who may trigger it, what evidence is enough and how long it takes. Add a rehearsal plan in a non-production environment, a checklist for the release day and a communication template for stakeholders. Include the cost of each strategy in extra infrastructure, with an example calculation using my figures, and note that blue-green requires capacity for two full environments during the switch.

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Invented canary plan. 5 percent of traffic for 15 minutes; abort if errors exceed 1.0 percent against a 0.4 percent baseline for five consecutive minutes.
Traffic check: 100 requests a minute x 5 percent = 5 requests a minute, which is 75 in 15 minutes: too few to see a change reliably. Raise to 20 percent (20 a minute, 300 in 15 minutes) or extend to 60 minutes.
Next steps: 25 percent for 30 minutes, then 100 percent.
Database: add column first, write both, backfill, switch reads, remove the old column in a later release.

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