How to throttle your normalizer effectively (#114)
Testing in Production
Yes, you read that right. Testing in production — not instead of staging, but in addition to it. Here's why and how.
Why Staging Lies
Staging environments differ from production in subtle but critical ways:
- Different data volumes (10K rows vs 10M rows)
- Different traffic patterns (no real users)
- Different infrastructure (smaller instances)
- Different integrations (sandbox APIs)
Canary Deployments
Route a small percentage of traffic to the new version:
# nginx.conf
upstream backend {
server app-v1:8080 weight=95;
server app-v2:8080 weight=5;
}
Monitor error rates, latency percentiles, and business metrics. If anything degrades, roll back automatically.
Feature Flags
Decouple deployment from release:
- Deploy code to 100% of servers
- Enable feature for 1% of users
- Gradually increase to 5%, 25%, 100%
- Kill switch: disable instantly without redeployment
Observability
You can't test what you can't see. Invest in:
- Structured logging (JSON, correlation IDs)
- Distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry)
- Custom metrics (business KPIs, not just CPU/memory)
- Alerting (on symptoms, not causes)
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