<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Governance on StackSimplify | DevOps &amp; Cloud Education by Kalyan Reddy</title><link>https://stacksimplify.com/tags/governance/</link><description>Recent content in Governance on StackSimplify | DevOps &amp; Cloud Education by Kalyan Reddy</description><generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://stacksimplify.com/tags/governance/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>ML Governance: The Champion-Challenger Pattern for Model Deployment</title><link>https://stacksimplify.com/blog/ml-governance-model-registry/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://stacksimplify.com/blog/ml-governance-model-registry/</guid><description>Your ML serving code should never know about version numbers. Ever.
If your inference service loads fraud-detector-v47, you have a problem. What happens when v48 is ready? Code change. New deploy. Downtime risk.
Now imagine this: your service always loads the model tagged @champion. (MLflow Model Registry docs) When v48 is promoted, the tag moves. Next request gets the new model. Zero code changes. Zero downtime.
The Champion-Challenger Pattern Role Alias Purpose Champion @champion Currently serving production traffic Challenger @candidate Being evaluated against the champion The flow:</description></item></channel></rss>