Release pipelines: Safer, staged rollouts across your infrastructure

Statsig has introduced release pipelines as a new feature to enhance the safety and efficiency of deploying changes across complex infrastructures, complementing their existing feature flag tool. While traditional feature flags focus on user segmentation, they may overlook infrastructure-level challenges, particularly at high release velocities where even minor risks can significantly impact performance. Release pipelines enable multi-stage rollout strategies that take into account infrastructure boundaries, allowing changes to be rolled out environment by environment, targeting specific infrastructure segments, and progressing through stages with controlled intervals or approvals. This approach allows for early issue detection and prevents large-scale outages by containing potential failures within specific segments before they impact the broader system. The dual focus on user and infrastructure-level controls aims to provide engineering teams with greater flexibility and reduced overhead, ensuring changes are validated in real environments with minimal risk. Currently in beta, release pipelines are available for enterprise customers, encouraging collaboration within Statsig's community to foster an experimentation culture.