SAFE AND RELIABLE PRODUCTION CHANGES FOR FAST MOVING TEAMS; AND HOW RIVIAN RECENTLY GOT THIS WRONG

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

Rivian recently made a mistake during an over-the-air software update for its cars that caused infotainment screens to reboot and become unusable for several days. It could have prevented this with better practices like canary deployments, pre-flight checks, and rollback mechanisms, which are common in cloud systems. Frequent small deployments and phased rollouts ensure safe changes in production.