Comparison
Canary deploymentvsDeployment ring
Canary deployment
the new prompt goes to two percent of traffic first, and you watch quality and cost before letting the rest through.
Rolling a prompt or model change to a small traffic slice first, watching quality and cost metrics, then widening. Treat prompts as deployable artefacts with the same ceremony as code, because they break things the same way.
Full entry →Deployment ring
your own staff get it first, then the tolerant customers, then everyone, over about a week.
Grouping the audience into ordered cohorts by risk tolerance and releasing outward through them. It differs from a canary in that the cohorts are populations rather than percentages of traffic, so it works for things a canary cannot cover — desktop clients, mobile releases, tenanted systems. The first ring being your own organisation is the whole trick, since it converts customer-found bugs into staff-found ones.
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