--- title: The production playbook for OTA updates | daily.dev description: A practical guide to running Expo EAS Updates safely in production. Covers staged rollouts starting at low percentages, monitoring adoption and crash signals... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-production-playbook-for-ota-updates-ipkfaec28 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The production playbook for OTA updates | daily.dev og:description: A practical guide to running Expo EAS Updates safely in production. Covers staged rollouts starting at low percentages, monitoring adoption and crash signals... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-production-playbook-for-ota-updates-ipkfaec28 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/iPkFAEC28.png og:image:alt: The production playbook for OTA updates og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The production playbook for OTA updates **[Expo Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/expo-blog)** · 10 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A practical guide to running Expo EAS Updates safely in production. Covers staged rollouts starting at low percentages, monitoring adoption and crash signals in the EAS dashboard, expanding rollouts based on real-world signals, and recovery options including reverting in-progress rollouts and rolling back fully deployed updates. Also touches on update size optimization via Hermes bytecode diffing (SDK 55 beta), built-in error recovery for early startup crashes, and persisted state compatibility considerations when rolling back. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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