WFGY/ProblemMap/GlobalFixMap/Cloud_Serverless/canary_release_serverless.md

Canary Release for Serverless and Edge

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A practical playbook to roll out new functions, indexes, and prompts with measurable safety. Works for API Gateway + Lambda, Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge, Fastly Compute, and similar stacks.

When to use this page

• You ship a new retriever, index, reranker, or prompt schema.
• You change provider version, model family, or tool contract.
• You migrate regions or cache strategy and want proof of safety.

Open these first

• Visual map and recovery: RAG Architecture & Recovery
• End to end retrieval knobs: Retrieval Playbook
• Trace and prove snippets: Retrieval Traceability · Contract payloads: Data Contracts
• Meaning vs distance: Embedding ≠ Semantic
• Collapse diagnostics: Context Drift · Entropy Collapse · Logic Collapse
• Cloud companions: Cold Start & Concurrency · Timeouts & Streaming · Stateless KV & Queues · Edge Cache Invalidation · Runtime Env Parity · Egress & Webhooks · Pricing vs Latency · Secrets Rotation · Multi-Region Routing · Region Failover Drills · Observability and SLO · Live ops: Live Monitoring for RAG · Debug Playbook

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Core acceptance for a canary to pass

• ΔS(question, retrieved) median ≤ 0.45 on the gold probe set.
• Coverage to the target section ≥ 0.70 on the same probes.
• λ convergent across three paraphrases and two seeds.
• p95 warm latency within 25 percent of control.
• Error rate within 20 percent of control with no new failure mode at headers or body read.
• No cache poisoning or index skew. INDEX_HASH, metric, analyzer match the intended variant.

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Canary design patterns that work

Traffic slicing keys

• Hash by tenant_id or stable_user_id then route to canary fraction.
• Keep stickiness for at least 24 hours so users do not flip between variants mid dialog.
• Propagate x-exp header from edge to core for observability joins.

Region aware canaries

• Start in one passive region. Never start in your hottest region.
• Hold global caches separate by prefix like v2-cnr:.
• Only enable multi region once p95 is clean in the pilot region.

Cold start aware canaries

• Warm the function with periodic pings tagged x-warm=true, but exclude these from SLO math.
• Keep separate panels for warm vs cold. If canary looks worse only due to cold, fix concurrency or memory first. Open: Cold Start & Concurrency

RAG quality probes

• Maintain a 50 to 200 question gold set. On each deploy run three paraphrases and two seeds.
• Log ΔS and coverage for each and alert if λ flips. Open: Retrieval Traceability

Webhook and egress canaries

• Duplicate emission to a canary sink with dedupe keys.
• Compare success, retries, and age without double posting to partners. Open: Egress & Webhooks

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Rollout stages and hard stops

1. Shadow Route 0 percent of user traffic. Replay sampled requests to the canary. Stop if ΔS median ≥ 0.60 or JSON schema violations appear.

2. One percent Real users by sticky hash. Stop if p95 warm > 1.25 of control or new 5xx class appears.

3. Five percent Enable exact users or tenants you trust. Stop if coverage drops below 0.70 on any probe topic.

4. Ten percent Expand to a second region with read only access to canary caches. Stop if INDEX_HASH mismatch detected across regions.

5. Twenty five percent Merge heat maps for cache hit. Keep canary write path isolated by prefix. Stop if cache invalidations for control and canary collide.

6. Fifty percent Remove shadow sinks and keep probe board running. Stop if λ flips on more than one paraphrase for any gold question.

7. One hundred percent Freeze the variant, purge stale caches, archive probe results.

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Telemetry you must log

{
  "ts": "2025-08-27T06:30:00Z",
  "route": "chat.rag.answer",
  "variant": "canary-v2",
  "sticky": "h34",
  "region": "us-east",
  "edge_pop": "iad",
  "cold_start": false,
  "latency_ms": { "tffb": 160, "tusable": 380, "tfinal": 1320 },
  "status": 200,
  "retrieval": {
    "k": 10,
    "metric": "cosine",
    "analyzer": "bilstem",
    "INDEX_HASH": "0x9a77",
    "ΔS_q_r": 0.34,
    "coverage": 0.76,
    "λ_state": "<>"
  },
  "cache": { "prefix": "v2-cnr:", "hit": true },
  "egress": { "webhook": "billing", "tries": 1, "dedupe_key": "sha256(...)" }
}

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Copy paste checklist

• Stable hash router at edge with stickiness preserved to core.
• Separate cache prefixes for control and canary.
• Canary probe set loaded and thresholds wired to gates.
• Canary logs include variant, sticky, INDEX_HASH.
• Release gates block promotion if any acceptance target fails.
• Rollback is a one line weight change with caches purged for canary prefix.

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Rollback cookbook

• If ΔS rises or coverage drops Revert routing weight to previous stage. Rebuild index with the semantic checklist. Open: Embedding ≠ Semantic · Chunking Checklist

• If latency spikes at body read Increase serverless memory or concurrency reserve. Tune stream chunk sizes. Open: Timeouts & Streaming

• If first call after deploy fails Check boot order and secrets parity. Open: Bootstrap Ordering · Pre-Deploy Collapse

• If tool calls loop or stall Lock tool schemas and timeouts. Open: Multi-Agent Problems

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Known traps

• Cache poisoning when control and canary share keys. Always namespace. Open: Edge Cache Invalidation

• Region skew from stale replicas. Verify analyzer and metric, not only INDEX_HASH. Open: Multi-Region Routing

• Secrets wedge between edge and core. Rotate with overlapping windows and dual readers. Open: Secrets Rotation

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Promotion rules

Promote only if all hold for one hour of peak:

• ΔS median ≤ 0.45 and coverage ≥ 0.70 on probes.
• λ convergent on both seeds.
• p95 warm within 25 percent of control.
• No new failure class appears.
• Cache hit does not regress more than five points after namespace split.

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