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Enhancing Flink Deployment with Shadow Testing
Grab's data streaming team added a Shadow Testing stage to its Apache Flink deployment pipeline to eliminate the ~10-minute rollback downtime caused by production-only failures. A shadow job runs in parallel with the main job in production, using distinct consumer groups and sink destinations to avoid interference while comparing metrics and outputs. The approach increases deployment frequency and reduces change failure rate.
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