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Yes. Because it lowers the chance compound risk. The longer you go without stressing the system the more likely you will have a double failure, thus increasing your outage duration.

Simply put. You don’t want to delay funding out something is broke, you want to know the second it is broken.

The the case I am suggesting, a failed release will be often deploying the same functionality, thus many failure modes will result in zero outage. It all failure modes will result in an outage.

When the software is expected to behave differently after the deployment, more systems can result in being part of the outage. Such as the new systems can’t do something or the old systems can’t do something.




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