Yahoo Mail relies on rigorous release management practices to deploy software updates across 10,000 servers worldwide. Releases are assembled and tested on development environments before being pushed in massively parallel fashion using tools like Pogo. A new "release train" begins every 3 weeks, with packages required to be installed on all server types. Thorough testing of releases both forward and backward helps ensure reliability. While challenges remain around legacy code and coordination, the simple approach of standardizing packages and testing releases extensively has proven most effective for Yahoo Mail operations.