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07 Reliability and Operations

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04 Traffic Management

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01 Concept

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Dark Traffic

Dark Traffic

Feb 10, 20261 min read

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Dark Traffic

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Sending real production traffic to a new service version, processing it fully, but discarding the responses. Results are compared against the current version’s responses to validate correctness and performance before switching users over.

Key Properties

  • Response Discarding
  • Correctness Validation
  • Performance Comparison

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