Sequential Progressive Delivery: Optimal Stopping Theory for Canary  Promotion and Rollback

Pradeep Kandepaneni, Saketh Gowerneni, Vasu Babu Narra, Tulasi Priya Vattikuti, Sanjay Mishra

Sequential Progressive Delivery: Optimal Stopping Theory for Canary Promotion and Rollback

Authors

Pradeep Kandepaneni, Saketh Gowerneni, Vasu Babu Narra, Tulasi Priya Vattikuti, Sanjay Mishra

Keywords:

progressive delivery, canary analysis, optimal stopping, sequential probability ratio test, sequential analysis, release engineering, rollback, ci/cd, hypothesis testing, blast radius

Abstract

Progressive delivery promises safety: release toa small fraction of traffic, watch the metrics, expand if healthy, roll back if not. In practice the watching is crude. Teams pick a fixed observation window, bake for thirtyminutes and then decide, and a static threshold,

References

A. Wald, Sequential Analysis. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1947.

A. Wald and J. Wolfowitz, “Optimum character of the sequential probability ratio test,” Annals of Mathematical Statistics, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 326–339, 1948.

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Published

2026-06-24

How to Cite

Pradeep Kandepaneni, Saketh Gowerneni, Vasu Babu Narra, Tulasi Priya Vattikuti, Sanjay Mishra. (2026). Sequential Progressive Delivery: Optimal Stopping Theory for Canary Promotion and Rollback . Journal of Computational Analysis and Applications (JoCAAA), 35(6), 226–231. Retrieved from https://www.eudoxuspress.com/index.php/pub/article/view/5633