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Parallel run with reconciliation

Published : Oct 28, 2020
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Oct 2020
Trial ? Worth pursuing. It is important to understand how to build up this capability. Enterprises should try this technology on a project that can handle the risk.

Replacing legacy code at scale is always a difficult endeavor and one that often benefits from executing a parallel run with reconciliation. In practice, the technique relies on executing the same production flow through both the old and new code, returning the response from the legacy code but comparing the results to gain confidence in the new code. Despite being an old technique, we've seen more robust implementations in recent years building on continuous delivery practices such as canary releases and feature toggles and extending them by adding an extra layer of experimentation and data analysis to compare live results. We've even used the approach to compare cross-functional results such as response time. Although we've used the technique multiple times with bespoke tooling, we certainly owe a nod to GitHub's Scientist tool, which they used to modernize a critical piece of their application and which has now been ported to multiple languages.

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