Canary Releases
Rolling out software updates incrementally to a small subset of users before making it available to everyone.
Definition
Rolling out software updates incrementally to a small subset of users before making it available to everyone.
Use case
Routing 1% of live traffic to new version v2.0 to monitor for runtime crashes before full rollout.
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Canary release
Testing a release on a few users before trusting it with everyone.