Production readiness checklist for startups and AI-built apps
A practical production readiness checklist across releases, reliability, security, cloud cost and ownership, with evidence to collect before launch.
Launch readiness checklistRead guide
Reliability.
Measure customer outcomes, test recovery and make production readiness observable.
Reliability starts with a clear customer journey and an owner for failure. These guides help turn launch assumptions into evidence, define useful service targets and distinguish release recovery from data recovery.
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Observability for AI applications: monitor the whole customer task
Monitor AI applications beyond uptime with request traces, job completion, model dependency signals, cost attribution and privacy-aware telemetry.
Monitoring design guideRead guide
Rollback vs restore: two recovery plans every production app needs
Understand deployment rollback and data restore, where each helps, and how to test recovery with schema changes, recovery objectives and validation.
Recovery comparison and drill guideRead guide
SLOs and error budgets for startups: start with one customer journey
Define a useful first service-level objective and error budget with a clear denominator, measurement window, alert owner and release decision policy.
Reliability planning guideRead guide