# Using Betas to Deploy New Features Safely

DevFeed: [Using Betas to Deploy New Features Safely](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/using-betas-to-deploy-new-features-safely-1665.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shopify.engineering/using-betas-to-deploy-new-features-safely>)

Author: Anthony Cameron

Published: 2021-02-12T20:10:34Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering.md>), [Shopify Engineering - Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering-shopify-engineering.md>)

Topics: [CI/CD](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cicd.md>)

Tags: [deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment.md>), [feature](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/feature.md>), [production](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/production.md>), [saas](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/saas.md>), [shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shopify.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains how beta flags can make continuous deployment safer by limiting rollout scope, enabling production testing, and allowing immediate activation or rollback.

## Source excerpt

For companies like Shopify that practice continuous deployment, our code is changing multiple times every day. We have to de-risk new features to ship safely and confidently without impacting the million+ merchants using our platform. Beta flags are one approach to feature development that gives us a number of notable advantages.