How to Test Your Changes Directly in Production

About the talk

Join me for an insightful talk on safely landing and testing code changes directly in production! It's often very hard to ensure a smooth release, right? I'll share practical techniques to speed up the process and how to leverage metrics to ensure safety. Dive into automated and manual testing methods. Learn about DevOps processes like Blue/Green deployment and Canary releases. Explore tools like feature toggles and kill switches. Understand the power of Shadow Testing. Let's make landing changes in production seamless and secure!

This talk will cover

  • Metrics: Basic introduction on metrics, why it’s relevant for the software engineers, and how to set up meaningful monitoring and logs
  • Tests: Automated tests and why isolate your changes for internal dogfooding
  • Practical examples and techniques for safer landing, like Kill Switches, Canary Release and Shadow Testing
Web Development

About the speaker

Israel Heringer

Israel is a software engineer with 14+ years of experience with a master in Computer Science. He has worked for companies in different industries and all sizes, from small family-owned businesses to Big Tech.

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