The blue/green deployment pattern and Canary releases

The deploy blue/green pattern is very simple in its concept, and it is very efficient to send new versions of software for production. For the implementation of the deploy blue/green pattern, the API gateway, with microservices architecture, is of great help.

In a monolithic application, generally, deployments are slower because every time a new version of the software is to be released, it must run the deployment of all the monolithics again. As the monolithic grows and becomes larger, it can become slow and problematic. With microservices, we can deploy individual components several times; it is usually faster and easier because of the size of the application thread itself being sent ...

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