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Shadow Deployments

Test in production safely

Shadow deployments send a copy of production traffic to new versions to observe behavior safely before enabling responses to users.

Mirror Traffic

Duplicate requests to the shadow service without affecting users.

Observe

Compare responses, latency, and errors against primary.

Decide

Fix issues found, then promote via canary or blue-green.

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