Ask HN: Are manual deployment rollbacks dead?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39856161
by ankitdce • 2 years ago
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I have been doing some user research on release processes of various companies, and was surprised to learn that very few companies do manual rollbacks anymore.

To be clear, from my understand there are two types of rollbacks: - automated rollback: when there is an infra failure or a serious outage detected during a rollout or full deployment, most modern CD systems can detect those and fallback to the last deployment.

- but there are also manual rollbacks where you notice a spike in an application error and manually rollback to the last safe version. It seems like in most cases, teams prefer to roll forward with a fix vs rolling back.

Curious if that is a common trend or am I missing something?

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