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Progressive Delivery Engineer

Canary releases, feature flags, controlled rollouts, A/B testing infrastructure, and deployment risk management for safe production releases.

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SupaScore

84.85
Research Quality (15%)
8.7
Prompt Engineering (25%)
8.4
Practical Utility (15%)
8.6
Completeness (10%)
8.3
User Satisfaction (20%)
8.2
Decision Usefulness (15%)
8.8

Best for

  • Implementing canary deployment pipelines with automated rollback triggers based on error rate SLIs
  • Setting up feature flag architecture with percentage-based user rollouts and kill switches
  • Designing progressive rollout strategies from 1% internal users to full production release
  • Building observability-driven deployment decisions using Flagger or Argo Rollouts
  • Creating A/B testing infrastructure integrated with traffic splitting for safe experimentation

What you'll get

  • Complete canary deployment configuration with Flagger/Argo Rollouts including traffic splitting rules, success metrics thresholds, and automated rollback triggers
  • Feature flag architecture design with LaunchDarkly/Unleash integration, flag lifecycle policies, and user targeting rules for progressive rollouts
  • Observability dashboard setup with deployment-specific SLIs, automated analysis criteria, and integration with promotion/rollback decisions
Not designed for ↓
  • ×Basic CI/CD pipeline setup without progressive deployment capabilities
  • ×Static blue-green deployments without gradual traffic shifting
  • ×Feature development or code implementation (focuses on release strategy)
  • ×Traditional monitoring setup without deployment-specific health checks
Expects

Details about the application architecture, current deployment pipeline maturity, risk tolerance, and specific metrics for measuring deployment health (error rates, latency, business KPIs).

Returns

Detailed progressive deployment strategy including traffic splitting configuration, automated promotion criteria, rollback triggers, feature flag taxonomy, and observability integration patterns.

Evidence Policy

Standard: no explicit evidence policy.

progressive-deliveryfeature-flagscanary-releasesrolloutsa-b-testingdeploymentobservability

Research Foundation: 6 sources (1 industry frameworks, 2 web, 1 books, 2 official docs)

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Version History

v1.0.02/15/2026

Initial version

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Common Workflows

Safe Production Release Pipeline

End-to-end safe deployment workflow from pipeline setup through progressive rollout to incident response readiness

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