Salesforce was granted a patent for staggered cloud software releases.

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    "uspto_assignee": "Salesforce, Inc.",
    "patent_abstract": "A multi-tenant system receives a request to build a software artifact for deploying on one or more target datacenter entities of the datacenter configured on the could platform. A software artifact comprises executable instructions associated with a service configured for execution on one or more cloud platforms. The system generates a release configuration that includes reusable release components and is used as a template by the release orchestration system to orchestrate release of the software artifact. The release configuration may specify one or more stagger groups, or a group of target datacenter entities that can be rolled-out in parallel.",
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