• Release process

  Bake time

  Bake time is the intentional waiting period after a new version starts serving real traffic - usually a canary slice or a first ring - before it is promoted further. The wait exposes slow-onset issues like memory leaks, connection pool exhaustion or delayed batch jobs that a quick smoke test would miss.

• Deployment strategies

  Big bang deployment

  A big bang deployment ships an entire new version at once. Every instance switches over in a single cutover step, with no phased ramp, no parallel environment and no canary slice. It is the simplest deployment shape and the riskiest, because the whole user base sees the change at the same moment.

• Reliability practices

  Blameless postmortem

  A blameless postmortem is a structured review after an incident that focuses on the systems, tools and decisions that let a failure happen, not on the individual who pushed the button. Teams write a timeline, root cause, contributing factors and concrete action items, so the same class of outage becomes harder to repeat.

• Release safety

  Blast radius

  Blast radius is the maximum damage a single change, incident or misconfiguration can inflict before it is contained: how many users, services, environments or accounts are exposed. Deployment strategies like canaries, blue-green environments and progressive rollouts exist to shrink that radius so a bad release hurts a slice, not everyone.

• Deployment strategies

  Blue-green deployment

  Blue-green deployment runs two identical production environments side by side - one (blue) serving live traffic, the other (green) holding the new version. Once the green environment is tested and healthy, you flip the router so all traffic goes to it in one step. If anything breaks, you flip back to blue with the same switch.

• DevOps platforms

  Buddy

  Buddy is a DevOps and Platform Engineering automation platform. CI/CD pipelines are one of around nine co-equal pillars, alongside remote deployments, environment lifecycle, app and static hosting, domain and DNS management, secure tunnels, git hosting and isolated sandboxes. Pipelines are configured visually in the UI or as YAML, and reachable via a REST API, the bdy CLI and Terraform.