Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

canary release

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.43 in modern English

Syllables: ca-nary re-lease
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A deployment strategy performed in order to reduce the risk of introducing a new software version in production by slowly rolling out the change to a small subset of users.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

canary releases (plural)

Questions

What does canary release mean?: A deployment strategy performed in order to reduce the risk of introducing a new software version in production by slowly rolling out the change to a small subset of users.

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