When should you use canary deployments?

One solution for a tricky or high-risk deployment is to leverage a canary deployment. In a canary deployment, new features are rolled out to a small subset of your customer base with no fanfare. If things go well: hooray! Canary deployments are ideal for times when a deployment might go sideways or the feature might not work as expected. By utilizing a canary release, you have minimized the risk, as impacting a small fraction of your users is a lot better than affecting all of them. This post wi