Safety and MLOps
Canary deployment
A canary deployment sends a small share of production traffic to a new version before wider rollout.
How it works
The limited exposure bounds damage while live metrics are compared. Automated rollback should use predefined safety and quality thresholds.
A concrete example
Illustrative: route 5% of requests to version B for 30 minutes, then expand to 25% if error rate stays below 1%.
Do not confuse it with A/B test
a canary primarily manages release risk; an A/B test estimates a product effect.