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Design a canary that promotes or rolls back itself based on metrics, with no human in the loop.

The loop is easy; the statistics are not. This question finds engineers who can size a traffic slice against sample noise and name the false rollback that kills trust in automation.

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The loop is easy; the statistics are not. This question finds engineers who can size a traffic slice against sample noise and name the false rollback that kills trust in automation.

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