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Mentions and links:

• Read Sean’s blog post, The Scary Thing About Deploys
• Follow Sean on LinkedIn

Time Stamps:

• (1:34): The Release Engineering team
• (2:13): How the monolith has served Slack 
• (3:24): How the deployment process used to work 
• (6:23): The complexity of the deploy itself
• (7:39): Early ideas for improving the deployment process
• (9:07): Why anomaly detection is challenging
• (10:32): What a Z-score is
• (13:23): Managing noise with Z-scores
• (16:49): Presenting this information to people that need it
• (19:54): Taking humans out of the process
• (23:13): Handling rollbacks
• (25:27): Not overloading developers with information
• (28:26): Handling large deployments