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How Instagram Reels manages reliability | Jack Li (Instagram, Shopify)

Engineering Enablement by Abi Noda

CHAPTER

Continuous Integration - Is the Merge Queue Necessary?

With feature branching, you would before merging run your checks against your feature branch and then merge. Whereas with the merge queue, your merge doesn't get merged, it actually goes into a queue and then later gets merged automatically. "The merge queue kind of tries to alleviate this by making sure that we have all the tests passing before we do the deployment," he says.

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