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Canary release is the new beta
Blog post from LaunchDarkly
Post Details
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Date Published
Author
Edith Harbaugh
Word Count
304
Language
English
Hacker News Points
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Summary
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.