
Blue-Green Deployments: Safety Net or Excuse Not to Fix Root Causes?
Every few years, a deployment strategy comes along that promises to solve all your problems. Remember when everyone said containers would fix everything? Blue-green deployment is this decade’s darling—the deployment equivalent of “have you tried turning it off and on again,” except way more expensive. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not here to trash-talk blue-green deployments. They’re genuinely useful in certain scenarios. But I’ve watched too many teams implement them as a band-aid, a way to avoid addressing the real issues lurking in their architecture....



