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Production Ready Track
Transform MVP into production-grade system - scale, reliability, and operational excellence
245
Minutes
5
Milestones
15
Total Steps
13
Required
Track Objectives
- Prepare application for production scale and load
- Implement comprehensive monitoring and observability
- Establish reliable deployment and rollback procedures
- Build operational practices for production support
1
Architecture Review
Validate architecture for production scale
Step 1
Required
mid-depth
Architecture Design
Review architecture decisions with production scale in mind
25 min
Step 2
Required
mid-depth
Data Flow Mapping
Understand where data flows and potential bottlenecks
20 min
Step 3
Required
mid-depth
Performance Scalability Design
Design for appropriate scale without over-engineering
25 min
2
Comprehensive Testing
Build confidence before production
3
Reliable Deployment
Ship safely and repeatably
Step 1
Required
mid-depth
Infrastructure As Code
Make infrastructure repeatable and version controlled
25 min
Step 2
Required
mid-depth
Deployment Strategy
Implement blue-green, canary, or rolling deployments
25 min
Step 3
Required
mid-depth
Cicd Pipeline Security
Secure the deployment pipeline
25 min
4
Operational Excellence
Keep systems running reliably
Step 1
Required
mid-depth
Monitoring Logging
Comprehensive observability: metrics, logs, traces
25 min
Step 2
Required
mid-depth
Incident Response
Structured incident response with runbooks
25 min
Step 3
Required
mid-depth
Backup Recovery
Disaster recovery procedures and tested backups
20 min
Step 4
Required
surface
Patch Management
Keep systems updated and secure
12 min
What's Next
- � Monitor production metrics and iterate
- � Consider security-hardening track for deeper security work
- � Establish SLOs (Service Level Objectives) and SLIs
- � Build on-call rotation and runbook culture