Backend & systems·Deployment, release and rollback
you leave the new version running on ten percent of traffic for an hour before proceeding, because some failures only show up slowly.
Bake time
Also calledsoak time
A deliberate wait between rollout stages so slow-developing problems — memory leaks, cache pollution, gradual queue growth — have a chance to appear. Without it a staged rollout only catches immediate errors. The right duration is set by how fast your worst known failure mode manifests, not by impatience.