[volkk]

> a request will end up going to one of baseline service A or A’, but never both

that's interesting, i totally didn't gleam that. so X percentage of users are getting a potentially bugged experience? is this kind of like a more robust feature flagging tool? i.e "rollout this thing to 1% of people for X time, and then roll it back to control"

and if so, if you have 200 engineers all testing all sorts of stuff on prod users/data, the chances of buggy experience for small amounts of people increases? am i understanding that correctly?

[anirudhrx]

Ah, the primary use-case here is for developers to test microservices as changes are made to them - so one would typically be running this setup in pre-production / staging only and no prod user data would be involved. I would think of it as a way to run integration / e2e tests for each commit or pull request. Running these tests in the high fidelity test environment constructed this way reduces the bottlenecks on staging environments, and bugs are discovered / addressed sooner.

[volkk]

AH! derp. thank you that makes total sense :) -- seemingly awesome tool, will certainly look into this. thanks for the quick responses