VPU Deployment Playbook

Migrate

The purpose of this stage is to move real production traffic onto Quadra VPUs without disrupting live operations. Migration happens incrementally, in parallel with existing CPU/GPU infrastructure, and remains fully reversible until confidence is established.

This is not about re-architecting your platform. It’s about swapping the compute layer while everything else stays intact.

How migration works

 Migration is executed alongside production, not instead of it.

  • Existing ingest, orchestration, and delivery paths remain unchanged
  • VPU encoding is introduced in parallel
  • Traffic is shifted gradually as metrics confirm stability and gain

Production stays live the entire time. Migration is measured, observable, and reversible at every step.

Incremental migration stages

 Migration progresses through clearly defined stages.
Each stage must pass validation before moving forward. At every stage:

  • Performance is measured against baseline
  • Cost and power deltas are confirmed
  • Rollback remains available


No stage is mandatory. Stopping early is a valid outcome.

Migration readiness checklist

 

Before advancing traffic, the following conditions should be met:

  • Stability validated under sustained load
  • Monitoring and alerting active
  • Cost deltas confirmed against baseline
  • Rollback path defined and tested


Migration is approved when all conditions are met.
This is how teams move fast without breaking trust.

 

What changes

  • The compute layer performing 
video encoding

  • This is a compute substitution, not a platform migration.

What does not change

  • Ingest
  • Orchestration
  • Packaging
  • Delivery
  • Tooling and workflows

The most common failures we see at this stage:

  • Treating migration as a cutover
 Removing reversibility increases risk unnecessarily.

 

  • Shifting traffic before monitoring is ready
 Visibility must precede volume.

 

  • Tuning during migration
 Migration is substitution, not experimentation.

Outputs of this Migration stage

When migration is complete, you should have:

  • Production traffic running on Quadra VPUs
  • Verified cost, power, and density improvements
  • Operational confidence across real workloads
  • A clear path to expand or pause


If operations can explain the migration state in one status update, you’re ready to scale.

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If you can defend the evaluation rationale to a skeptical peer in two minutes, you’re ready to test.