Migrate
Migration is not a cutover. It’s a controlled shift. 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.
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
What does not change
- Ingest
- Orchestration
- Packaging
- Delivery
- Tooling and workflows
This is a compute substitution, not a platform migration.
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 the migrate 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
Let's continue
If operations can explain the migration state in one status update, you’re ready to scale.