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How Experimentation Improves Infrastructure Releases | Harness Resource

Experimentation isn’t just for product teams — it’s a powerful tool for backend, infrastructure, and platform engineers to ship faster, more safely, and with greater confidence. In this presentation, we’ll explore how modern experimentation practices can be applied to infrastructure workflows, from feature flags and gradual rollouts to real-time monitoring and automated kill switches. Through best practices and real-world examples, you’ll learn how teams use experimentation to reduce risk, validate changes in production, and avoid complex rollbacks. All while building a culture of continuous learning and operational resilience.

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January 1, 2024

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Key Takeaways

Experimentation Applies to Infrastructure

Feature flags and experimentation are not limited to product updates. They can safely test major infrastructure changes like database migrations and new caching layers.

Mitigate Risk With Progressive Rollouts

Gradually exposing new infrastructure to a small percentage of traffic allows teams to identify and resolve issues early. This prevents widespread outages and minimizes the impact on end users.

Define Key and Guardrail Metrics

Establish a primary success metric alongside guardrail metrics like error rates and cost to serve. Monitoring these ensures the change achieves its goal without negatively impacting overall system health.

Ensure Safety With Default Experiences

Wrapping infrastructure code in feature flags provides an immediate kill switch. If an alert triggers, traffic instantly reverts to the original configuration to maintain system stability.

Accelerate Analysis With AI Summaries

Modern experimentation platforms use artificial intelligence to quickly interpret complex metric dashboards. This helps engineers understand results and determine next steps without spending hours analyzing data.