Canary Releases at 10M QPS: Making Gradual Rollouts Mandatory, Not Optional
This article explains why canary releases become essential at 10M QPS, detailing how to define canary units by identity, failure domain, and business scenario; set absolute traffic limits; use evidence-driven state machines with four metric layers; ensure version compatibility; choose rollback, feature-flag, or forward-fix strategies; build platform capabilities; avoid common pitfalls; and make canary the default deployment path.
