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Production Readiness Checklist
A working pre-launch checklist for reliability, observability, cost controls, recovery procedures, and security baseline. Run through this before any production launch or major deploy.
What this covers
Run through this before any production launch or major deploy. Covers the controls that should exist before traffic makes the decision for you.
Sections included
- Reliability -- Health checks, circuit breakers, retry policies, timeout configuration, graceful degradation
- Observability -- Logging standards, metric coverage, trace propagation, dashboard existence, alert quality
- Cost Controls -- Budget alerts, auto-scaling limits, spot instance fallbacks, data transfer awareness
- Recovery Procedures -- Backup verification, restore testing, RTO/RPO documentation, incident runbooks
- Security Baseline -- TLS configuration, secret management, network segmentation, dependency scanning
- Deployment Safety -- Rollback procedures, canary configuration, feature flags, database migration strategy
How to use it
Work through each section with your team before go-live. Flag items as green (done), yellow (partial), or red (missing). Anything red is a launch blocker. Anything yellow needs a timeline.
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