Canary release
Rolling out a change to a small slice of traffic or users first, watching for problems, then widening. The primary defense against a bad version becoming a global outage.
Defined in 3 GAGE programs, which carry 3 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in Certified AI Transformation Professional (CATP).
How each discipline defines it
The same term does different work depending on who is using it. These are the definitions as each program teaches them, unedited.
Rolling out a change to a small slice of traffic or users first, watching for problems, then widening. The primary defense against a bad version becoming a global outage.
A rollout strategy where a change ships to one consumer or a small subset first, is monitored for problems, and only expands to the rest once it proves safe.
The first, small, monitored stage of a staged rollout, in which a new software or
Where it is taught
The exact lessons this term appears in. The first 7 topics of every program are free with a free account.
- The schema change that broke the forecaster: blast-radius analysis downstream · Quality as Physics, Certified AI Data Governance Professional (CADGP)
- AI System Reliability and Safety Engineering · Risk, Resilience and Frontier AI, Certified AI Transformation Professional (CATP)
Terms it appears with
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