Best practice 2.4 – Build standard operating procedures for deployment, test, rollback, and backfill tasks

Standard operating procedures for deployment, test, rollback, and data backfill tasks allow faster deployments, reduce the number of errors that reach production. Using a standard approach also makes remediation easier if a deployment results in unintended consequences.

Suggestion 2.4.1 – Document and use standard operating procedures for implementing changes in your analytics workload

Standard operating procedures allow teams to make changes confidently, thus avoiding repeatable mistakes and reducing the chance of human error.

Suggestion 2.4.2 – Use automation to perform changes to underlying analytics infrastructure or application logic

Automated tests can determine when changes have unintended consequences and can roll back without human intervention.