Canary Deployment
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Practical example
Canary deployment gradually shifts traffic to a new model — start with 5% of users, monitor for errors, increase to 25%, monitor, 100%. If errors spike at any stage, rollback automatically. It's the safest way to deploy model updates because full-impact failures are caught early.
Workflow example
Canary deployment workflow: (1) deploy new model alongside old, (2) route 5% of traffic to new model, (3) monitor for N minutes: error rate, latency, output quality, business metrics, (4) if all metrics within acceptable range: increase to 25%, then 50%, then 100%, (5) if any metric degrades: auto-rollback to previous version, (6) for LLMs: canary deploy prompt changes AND model changes — both can break your application.