Spinnaker Summit 2020

Using automated canary analysis can help increase development productivity, reduce risk and keep developers happy. Emitting and storing metrics are critically important for any application, but those metrics aren’t valuable on their own, they need to be actionable. Many deployment practices use manual canaries to reduce risk, but require human intervention to orchestrate the deployment but also make a risk assessment by looking at 100s of metrics dashboard. This is time-consuming and extremely error-prone. In this talk, I’ll discuss how to apply statistical analysis to critical application metrics to make automated decisions and remove the error-prone humans from the process altogether.