14 · Shipping & Collaboration

Canary Deploy

Release to a small slice first

A rollout strategy that sends a new version to a small percentage of traffic first, watches errors, then widens. Limits blast radius compared with an all-at-once deploy.

Concrete example

Send 5% of users to the new build; roll forward only if error rates stay flat.

Why it matters

Safer shipping when a full cutover is too risky.