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Canary rollout

A small new version grows beside the stable one and takes its traffic band by band.

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Canary rollout: a small new version grows beside the stable one and takes its traffic band by band.
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How it moves

  1. the stable version carries all the traffic.
  2. a small canary grows beside it.
  3. traffic moves over band by band until the canary holds it.

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File size
3.2 KB gzipped
Motion
Plays once, 4.0 s, then holds
Reduced motion
Shows a still
File
canary-rollout.svg

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