Tag: Shadow Deployment

Sep 21
Shadow Deployment Testing: Evaluating New Agent Versions on Production Traffic Without Write Privileges

In traditional cloud-native application engineering, shadow deployment (or dark launching) represents the gold standard for validating major software upgrades. By duplicating live production ingress traffic and routing a live copy asynchronously to a newly released version of a microservice, engineering teams observe real-world performance, memory consumption, and error rates under authentic traffic loads without exposing […]